Research and planning Evaluation - part 6

Technologies that I have used during the making of my magazine covers

I used Prezi to evaluate my work for example, I added images of my magazine covers and annotated them. Then posted the finished Prezi on my blogger. I did this by copying the link to embed on to the post in the blogger. By using Prezi I have learnt how to make presentations without using a simple PowerPoint presentation. I have learnt new skills such as creating and editing paths from one slide to another to make the presentaion of the Prezi look professional and easy to use and understand for the users or the examiners.

The main technology that I used for my coursework was the use of Photoshop to create the magazine front cover, contents page and the Double Page Spread. I used Photoshop more often than any other technology during the making of my magazine covers therefore, I have learnt more about this one. For example, I have learnt how to use custom brushes to enhance the quality of the images used, use the layer style tool to add textures and glow to images, text or any other elements, I used the spot healing tool to get rid of any blemishes on the model's face. Also, I used the magnetic lasso tool to crop out any bits of the images I didn't want even though it was hard to use this tool at first as it was quite complicated however, I finally managed to use this tool easily as I used it quite often and by practicing it.

I used iPhoto to view any pictures in my desktop. Using this I was able to upload any pictures I took with the cameras, view the pictures and import the pictures to my folder for me to upload to my blogger later on.



I used the most used social networking website Facebook to get feedback for my work. I did this by uploading JPGs of my music magazine covers to this site on my account where my friends comments on the post. Then I print screened these and posted them on the blogger as evidence of my feedback. By doing this I learnt about the mistakes I had made then I improved my covers according to the feedback comments.









 



By using blogger I was able to keep track of my coursework and post my work on it for the examiner to see. I have learnt to create new posts, add images, videos, links and publish my work. I could also check if my links, videos and images are working properly by viewing the blog.

I used Flickr to annotate the JPGs of my magazine covers and posted it on my blogger. I did this by embedding the link of the covers on Flickrs on the post in blogger so that when the images are clicked on in my blogger post the link takes the user to the annotations in Flickr.