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PHOTOSHOP
I constructed the front cover and contents on photoshop. Before
this I had previously used photoshop twice before so I was familiar
with a few of the tools. However before I started constructing my
final product I played around with a few of the tools so I could
explore what photoshop had to offer. I found my favourite tool to
be the magic wand and my least favourite thing about photoshop
was having to constantly make sure I was on the right layer so
constantly clicking on and off layers got annoying.

THE MAGIC WAND TOOL

The magic want tool like I said was my favourite when
constructing my magazine because it was quick and
easy to get rid of excess unwanted space around my
images and text. An example of where I used this tool
was for my editors picture there was a lot of background
behind the image and I just want an outline of the
person. So the magic tool allowed me to neatly get rid
of all the background without getting rid of bits of the
image I needed.

COLOUR OVERLAY
Another tool I used frequently on photoshop was the
colour overlay tool. I used this to change the colour
of my font to fit my colour scheme I chose. I found
that when I hovered over a colour on the page when
on cover overlay a colour swatch appeared allowing
me to choose that exact colour so they dont mismatch.

CONSTRUCTING THE ALBUM COVER

Using different tools on photoshop I was able to make a
realistic music album cover. I cropped an image I had taken on
a panosonic camera and then put a sharpen effect on it. I then
made a rectangle shape across the image and changed the
colour overlay to red. I then put text in the image and added
the radio one logo. Photoshop made it easy to create this
album cover.

DA FONTPHOTOSHOP
I used the websitehttp://www.dafont.com/ to get my font
for my masthead, main coverline and titles. After
transferring the font onto Photoshop once I found it
quick and easy to do for the rest of my font. First I had to
choose my font then I had to print screen it and paste it
onto a page on photshop then I had to crop the majority
of the rest of the screen that I did not want. Finally I had
to get the magic want tool and ensure all of the
background was removed so I was just left with my font.
Finally I have to move the layer onto the page I wanted.

PANOSONIC CAMERA
I have learnt how to take a good photo using a
panosonic camera. I was not very familiar with this
model of camera as I am so used to using my
iphone to take pictures. I saw a huge difference in
the focus and quality of my images. It was quick
and easy to transfer my images from the camera to
my desktop by just one lead.

INDESIGN
The other software I used to construst my
magazine was indesign. I created my whole
double page spread and put my magazine
together using this software. Before my
teacher introduced me to indesign I had never
heard of it but after the initial introductory
tutorial I was near enough able to use most of
the tools. By the end of my construction I was
able to create columns and dropcaps, add
images and blur an image into text.

QUESTIONNAIRE- EXCEL
Excel was a useful software to use when I wanted to
put my results from the questionnaire into a graph so
I could then analyse them. Excel gave me no
problems and I was able to merge cells and create
graphs easily. I had a lot of results to record so this
was a huge benefit to getting the graphs created
quickly.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING SOFTWARE

Throughout my research and planning I used many different
presentation sites including Powtoon,Prezi,Wideo,Powerpoint
and emaze. Although these are refreshing ways to present
work and allowed me to get created they did cause a lot of
problems. Technology is not very reliable due to technical
problems such as freezing etc and along the way wideo and
prezi showed this. While in the middle of creating
presentations the software would freeze and not save my work.
Also prezi was not allowing me at one point to add any text so
this got frustrating however after spending a lot of time on
them I managed to create many impressive technical
presentations.