EVALUATION: QUESTION 4

EVALUATION:

QUESTION 4: WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

 During the process of making my publication I have extended my knowledge of using Photoshop for example I have used various tools to create my products. The image above presents some of the different tools I used during the process and how they made my product better.


FRONT COVER:
I needed these 3 tools for my front cover as they helped develop my product to a better standard. I needed to use the colour tool to change the colour of my font so it fitted in to what I needed my house style to be. By adding colour to my product it made the front cover look more appealing to the audience. I learnt that to get the specific colour of a piece of text or the background or the clothing of the cover star I used the colour picker tool to ensure the colour matches together.
To create a pug for my front cover I used the shape tool to create a circle and used the filler tool to fill in the colour and then used the text tool to write inside of it to show the audience how much the magazine is. By having this in a pug it draws the attention of the audience to it straight away so they know how much the magazine is.
For my masthead I had to chose which font I wanted so it stood out to the audience and so it looked bold and inviting and fit into the genre of the magazine. At first I chose a different masthead to what I used as my final decision, so while doing this I had to use the magic wand tool to erase the background around the letters. To make sure I did this correctly I used the zoom tool to achieve accuracy.


CONTENTS PAGE:
The two tools that are shown were needed for my contents page. The text tool was used throughout my media product however I decided to focus on this particular part on my contents page as I used copies of the masthead in between the text, meaning I used different layers for the copies to work between the text to make sure the text didn't go over the layer with the copy on or the copy going over the text. I changed the size of the font for this particular part as well because it is a subscribe box which shows audience participation so the audience need to be able to see it.
Another tool I used on my contents page was the erase tool. I used this because there was a white background on the image of gig tickets and therefore wouldn't look appealing on a grey background. To make it easier I used the magic wand tool to erase the bit parts of the background that would have taken longer with the eraser. However once I got close to the edges of the main image I needed that is when I used the eraser tool to make sure the corners and sides were neat. I also learnt that I can change the size of the eraser to make it bigger or smaller depending on what you need to rub out.

 DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD:
I used these 3 tools for my double page spread to make it look more interesting and different to normal double page spreads. For example I decided to have my 4 secondary images in black and white. I did this by first putting the image I wanted to use on a separate document and changing the gradient to black and white and leaving the layer on that image. I then selected the whole image and copied and pasted it into the double page spread document. I then used the magic wand to get the access background deleted so just the image was in place. I learnt that I needed to make sure that everything that I wanted in black and white needed to be underneath the black and white layer and everything that was supposed to be in colour above the black and white layer.
For my main image I needed to use the magic wand tool to erase the background from the image. I also needed to use the eraser tool to get rid of the small bits of the background near the cover star's head. I had to use the blur tool to make sure that everything blended in together so her head fitted in with the background and didn't look out of place.
For all 3 of my products I had a selection of fonts to choose from to use. I decided to use a simple font that was easy to read but also could have different styles to it for example 'condensed bold italic' therefore when I put most of my writing in capitals it looked better than if the font was a normal. It also worked in my favour as the new style of the font fitted in better with my music genre.