I have learnt a great deal about technologies from constructing my music magazine, as at the start I was very unsure about how to use Photoshop therefore on my school magazine stuck with the very basic tools and didn't go any further. Having had the opportunity to go to a Photoshop workshop I learnt how to do things I had no idea you could do on a program on the computer, for example completely distorting somebodies face/body, making fonts stand out with special effects and merging pictures together. After my tutorial at the workshop I felt much more comfortable using the complex program and started fiddling around with all the different tools and effects to see what they did. I feel more confident with layering things, adding effects like 'outer glow' 'inner glow' and 'strokes', merging images together, using the magic wand tool to outline an image and crop it so its the right size and doesn't contain any empty space and just generally arranging images and text together. All of which helped me greatly in the construction of my magazine.
I have also learnt how to blog effectively, at the start I wasn't too sure how to do it but after awhile I got the hang of it, and now find it a very useful skill to have as I can now create a blog for my own purpose.
Everyone knows how to use a camera but I found that my skills were challenged when I went to take photos for my feature as I had to think really hard about the type of shots I wanted and had to think how to frame them effectively. I had to make sure that the correct mise en scene represented DJing well, for example I had to make sure that the DJ decks were in the shot to correspond with the text and have him looking at the camera so we get to see what he actually looks like.
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