Q6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From the process of constructing this product I learnt many things about technology, that helped construct my magazine. Firstly I learnt how to use a Canon Eos 400D Camera to take a majority of my image.

Although I used this camera for my preliminary task I found the second time I used it, I learnt more about the camera and how to position it to get the full body shot I needed. A majority of my image were taken in college to show consistency and emulate real magazines which are taken in the same location. The other pictures that I did not take in college were taken at a house, where I made my models stand behind a blank cream wall. In order to create a desire effect and good quality image, I had been aware of the lighting and the location in which I would be taking the pictures. As I took a majority of my image with a Canon Eos 400D Camera, It was easier for me to take god quality image as it could increase the brightness of my pictures and I could also use a better quality flash. The other camera I used (Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera) had good quality, however it wasn’t as diverse as the Canon camera. There I had to make sure there was good lighting even though the camera had flash, whereas the Canon I didn’t.

The way the Canon camera worked was, as the button was pressed on the Canon camera a radio wave was sent to the flash triggering the flash to appear as the picture is taken, to give it that professional look. Adding on to that the models have to stand at an arm’s length away from the flash stand, allowing the light to be captured on them.

Another technology I found I had learnt was the use of Photoshop as my skills on Photoshop was very limited,  but as it came to my magazine I was able to use Photoshop in a more advance way. I used Photoshop C55 and CS3 for my magazine. Reason for this is because C55 was easier to create effect on my image and make it pop out.

I also used rectangle tool to create stars and boxes I used on my front cover and content page. Photoshop was also useful, as I was able to upload pictures on to my blogger using JPEG that Photoshop had.

Use of Jpeg


















Rectangle Tool

Text Tool

I was also able to upload my pictures on blogger using Jpeg.

I learnt how to use the stroke tool which helped to make particular texts stand out: front cover ‘Gold’ and ‘Exclusive interview with Rihanna’ etc. I wanted a stroke which was obvious to be noticed however, not to be too much to spoil the look of the magazine.