Evaluation Question 6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product?

This year has been the first time I have properly used photoshop at first I found it quite confusing but with a few lessons I have been able to confidently use it.

At first I did not think I could possibly make a magazine with the little skills of photoshop I had but I have progressed quite a lot since then and have been able to create a unique magazine that I feel has the essence of folk that readers would be attracted to.

This was the picture that I started off with and there is quite a large difference between the two pictures, I changed the contrast to make it stand out a lot more, I also took out the background because I wanted the magazine to be plainly about the musician and I felt that the background was a bit too distracting. I also made the violin a brighter shade of red so it becomes a lot more vibrant and I think it would attract the audience. I also cut out parts of the picture to make sure people are solely looking at the musician.

Overall I think by using photoshop I have made a appropriate front page that people would be attracted to because it is bright and bold and quite clean looking, compared to mainstream magazines that are edgy and dark looking.

I have never actually used Indesign before as I had used photoshop on the preliminary task because at that point it seemed a lot more easier to use however it did help with lining up writing and pictures and making columns, when making my double page spread and contents page I combined both Photoshop and Indesign together because I couldn't really edit any pictures on Indesign.

I made all of the tabs on Indesign by creating a straight line and then transforming it into a circle and then filling it in with the colour and that is how i was able to make a border on all of the tabs. The one thing that I would change if I could is the heading on the contents page because it is slightly different to the heading on the front cover but I had trouble re-creating the same font and colour etc.