What I have learnt about technologies from the process of constructing my product?

By Alex Major

PhotoshopFrom the prelim task to the actual product I have learnt a lot about Photoshop and how to use it. I couldn’t use Photoshop before the course and now I can use all of these tools on photo shop. But out of all these tools, 9 of them have the choice to choose other tools, which will have more of a specific job such as this . Which can be more useful then just having a brush for example.

A very useful tool and method, which helped mea lot with most of my pictures I did for my magazine is instead of using the rubber to removebits I didn’t need I used the lasso tool instead.

Rubber Lasso Tool

As you can see with the rubber evenwith care, at close you can see the imperfections whereas the lasso tool is perfect. And that’s why I chose to do all my pictures with this skill I learnt.

One of my favourites tools in Photoshop which I was shown is the colour replacement brush, Its my favourite because it interesting to see normal things in other colours, I was going to include things that were different in my magazine but I didn’t think it looked professional enough.

If I was going to do another magazine but for a younger audience, regardless of what was the contents was I would probably use this tool, especially if it was a little kids magazine.

I have also learned a lotabout font style and howto make something standout.

Before I've edited the font After editing

From the original I have added a drop shadow, a bevel, outer glow, a stroke and added a white colour filter.

Photography

Aperture: Is the amount of light, which provides either shallow or large depth of field.

Shutter Speed: Is the amount of time light enters the camera to either freeze or blur motion ISO: Is the light sensitivity of the sensor, which affects detail and sharpness.

In photography I learnt a lot about the photography triangle, because I didn’t know anything about cameras and with the triangle it is very easy to understand and work out what you need to do to the camera to get the kind of photo your wanting. For instance like this photo underneath I needed to get enough light to pick up the detail but not to much so that there was a huge flash strike on the photo. Before I took the photo I but the flash on, quite a high aperture, quite a high ISO and a moderate shutter speed I also got close to it to really pick up some detail.