EVALUATION Q6

PHOTOSHOP

During the construction of my magazine my skills of Photoshop have increased massively. Each lesson one of my peers have presented to the rest of the class their ‘top tip’ for Photoshopthis helped a lot with the little details in our final magazine product. Without the use of Photoshop my magazine would not have been up to the professional standard as in which it is now.

Before my AS media studies course began I had only heard of Photoshop, never once used it, I found it extremely difficult to get my head around it in the beginning, it was all new to me, other class peers had used Photoshop for a very long time before this course which made me feel even more useless when using it. But after a few weeks of practice my Photoshop skills improved hugely! I can use Photoshop comfortably and easily now.

FACEBOOK

Facebook is an app which I am defiantly able and comfortable to use. I have been a member of Facebook for 4 years now and It is so useful for any person everywhere in the world. Facebook is a social networking site which allows you to connect with people all over the world. I have used Facebook within my coursework for the past 9 months to show print screens of messages of proof my models when I asked their permission to use them as my models for my magazine. Facebook is usually used more for personal use, when connecting with friends or creating a page for a group you want people to recognise or find out about. Facebook is a great way of promotion and meeting new people.

BLOGGER

Before starting my As media coursework I had never before used blogger, but before I knew it I was away. Firstly I had to create a Gmail which luckily for me I already had, this was the email I would be using for my bloggeraccount. This blog would be were I post all of my target audience research and planning, everything from what my target audience like to eat all the way up to my final product. Blogger is basically a big piece of work which at the end of the course will be examined by the moderator. Blogger can also be used as a personal use, for business or just for fun, forexample my class mate Emily Bunker used blogger for her own use, she has a make up tutorialblog which is very successful.

TWITTER

Twitter is also another social networking site but it a lot moreprivate than Facebook is, Facebook allows you to becomefriends with other Facebook users and have access to their personal details and information, where as twitter is an app in which you follow people and if they accept the follow you canthen have access to whatever they decide to tweet and post, theystill now cannot see your personal page unless they choose tofollow you, in which this is then your decision weather to let them.I sometimes used print screens from twitter when I was creating mymagazine and research and planning, but not as much as I did face-book. The only reason for this would be because a lot more of my friends use Facebook which made it easier to use this app.