Evaluation Activity 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For my pictures for the magazine I used a Canon D450 and a studio lighting umbrella to make sure my photos were of the best quality and looked professional. I found correct lighting was the most important in taking a photo- but if light was scarce playing with exposure and such could dramatically improve the quality.

Outside of school, I used my Dell Inspiron for editing on Photoshop Elements. This was a different versionto the school one so throughout the process of making my magazine I also learnt about how to use this version- mostly the crop, enhance, magic eraser tools and learnt how to use layers.

I used photoshop elements for editing my pictures, and putting together my magazine. As I'd never used photoshop before, I felt I learnt most about this during the making of my magazine- from the enhance tools, to the magic eraser, to all of the features.

Both Flickr and PhotoBucket are image hosting websites, so I used them both to upload images and add tags and information.

Blogger was used to upload my progress on my magazine, and to post my research and planning.

As it can add extras that photoshop can't, I used picnik to test filters on my photos and other effects.

I used LookBook a lot for inspiration for the clothing, poses and angles that would work well in my magazine.