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

Through my coursework I have learnt many skills. Before doing this I did not know much about photoshop and how many different things you could do with it. For my editing practise, I changed the background colour to black and white and carried this through to my main task when editing the main image. I also learnt how to crop several pictures into one effectively and though it did take a lot of time and practise I thought it went quite well. I learnt how to do this and came up with the idea through a friends photography work which has been incorporated in my blog earlier on. For my front cover I used a green screen which I had never done before so that was another thing I had learnt about. I put my pictures on to the computer and then through photoshop once again I changed the background colour. I did not know how to create a double page spread on Microsoft Publisher before this task and this is another skill I have learnt.I also found that getting certain colours to work well against another was hard and how to over come this by simply having a slightly translucent background to it hence the bubble shapes on my front cover. I also developed more complex skills with Microsoft Word which I have not used much before for design, I found it quite hard trying to layout my work as it kept moving unexpectedly but I over come this by changing the settings on the images and they therefore did not move as much as before. I struggled when trying to get my fonts stand out enough against my background and therefore have made a lot of changes through out. Choosing the images was also quite difficult as due to the image being the main attraction of current magazines, it had to be eye catching and different. I found that by varying camera angles and the distance in which you take your image your magazine catches more attention. It was quite hard to get a range of different photographs as I only had two opportunities where my model was available yet I did use a professional camera and this was another thing I had not done so I learnt about the different ways they work. I have also never used a blog before doing this coursework therefore I have learnt about the way they work and they ways in which you can change a lot of aspects of them.