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

 I have learnt how to utilise the different tools available within Photoshop to create a professional looking media product. I did not know how to use many tools within Photoshop beforehand as I only had a very basic understanding of how to use the program, I often avoided using the program as I found it too difficult to use. However I now understand most of the tools available to me in Photoshop and understand how to use them to create a professional product.

I learnt how to use different types of brushes to add different effects to my magazine, on my front cover I painted on areas that I could write sell lines onto, such as the area about the exclusive interview, and at the bottom of the page on where it mentions a free poster. I also used this effect on my double page spread when I placed quotes onto

the page that were from within the article itself. This allowed me to make a more visually appealing article to draw in the reader. The effect of the running paint is similar to graffiti, and could stereotypically be represented with teenagers and their destructive natures, this effect fits in nicely with the image on my double page spread as it is of a teenager swinging a guitar through the air. 

I have also learnt about adjusting colours, brightness, contrast, etc on images, after having taken some of my photos, I wanted to make some of the brighter, and some darker, so I was able to adjust my images accordingly to create these effects, the two images at the top of my contents page both consist of adjustments to brightness, contrast, hue and saturation.

Through the use of shapes and adjusting layers I was able to make my photos appear to have frames, this can be seen on my poster special on my contents page as I have arranged the layers to create a 3D effect.

I also learnt how to take better looking photos. I originally had no understanding of how to use a camera to generate professional quality imagery, but after my preliminary I learnt to use lighting and better angles to create high quality images.