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

I used my Mac to allow me to produce my magazine on photoshop, also to update my blog with research. i mainly only used photoshop but i also had to include my hotmail to be able to send my picture from my iphone to the Mac, which then i added into my iphoto booth ready to upload onto my blank page on photoshop. On my sample photos i did my editing on the iphoto booth however that restricted me to only rotating, cropping, straightening, different colour effects for example black and white, enhancing and retouching. Where as i wanted to 'paint' and co-ordinate colours from the fonts onto the image and hide blemishes, so i changed to do the editing on photoshop.  

As you can see my blog is up on the computer screen, Blogger became a very resource website to enable me to upload my research and work, recording and stating information and feature i will and wont include on my final pieces and most importantly why. Tested research is also blogged to show ideas that i came up with but may or may not of worked through trial and error. 

For my research i used 'google' mainly for images and basic information i could build my knowledge upon. This helped with my research into the different magazine, artists and various other research tools i made in the process. Google also aided my research as it gave me technology to use different programs and access to websites which specify in then information i wanted to research for example the NME and FLAVOUR websites. Slideshare and Scribd were to programs that i used to present my research, i found these very easy to use as all i needed was a embed code to enable me to add my work onto my blogger page. I used Scribd to enable me to add word documents onto my blogger. Animoto was where i added photo/images onto a storyline where it then added them together like a self running powerpoint. Throughout the blogger work i added videos off of youtube to give a more music feel and vibe through my coursework and also to give examples of artists music and work.



For my sample shots i used my iphone4 which gave a clear image in a decent quality however for my final shots i used a camera which had a tripod with it so it was easier to hold and keep still. I had to learn how to use the camera however in comparison to my knowledge of the use of my iphone. Overall when the focuser went green on the screen i then took my images to assure a clear focused picture, after uploading them onto my Mac i edited them on photoshop.