Question 6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing you rmedia product?

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I have learned quite a few things about technology during the process of making my magazine. To start with, I had never used an Apple computer before as I have always used Windows. A lot of the system preferences where the same except some of the buttons have moved to other corners or the shortcuts that I would use to speed the process are slightly different but this was easy to adjust to.

Next, I had to use a top quality Canon camera (Canon EOS 100D). This was because I had to take a lot of the photographs myself. Again this was simple to do because there wasn't much different to the camera that I own, except the images were a lot better quality.

To edit my images, I used Adobe Photoshop. I already knew the basics of using Photoshop however, I used many more skills than what I had originally had to make my magazine work. I had to use Photoshop to edit my images. One image for example had a glare that I didn't like in it so I decided to duplicate the colour, draw over the glare and then change the opacity of the new jumper to make you able to see the jumpers texture and patterns. I also used Photoshop to border all of my text and even make the layout of my magazine on there. This really helped when transferring edited images because they were already adjusted to Photoshop so to copy them over to the magazine wasn't a problem.

Finally, I used websites that I hadn't used before. An example of these are Slideshare, Prezi and even blogger. These websites have all been useful. Slideshare allowed me to upload a ready made presentation and Prezi allowed me to make a presentation using online layouts and better interactive features. Blogger has then made me able to upload all of my work and progress online for my teachers to see. This made it practical to do a little extra work and research at home because I could access my work through the internet rather than having to carry around binders full of all of my work.