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

We have learnt 3 main new technologies while creating our magazine cover. Firstly, Adobe Photoshop was the programme we used to make the actual front cover. We learnt how to layer the different parts of the front cover so that everything was in the correct order and made sense. We also learnt how to crop photos and edit various parts to the cover. We then used QuarkXpress to create our contents page, which was more complicated than Photoshop. The importing of photos was more complicated on this programme due to the more text and having to make them smaller. We were able to overcome this by placing the pictures in appropriate places that does not obstruct the text from the contents page. We also used a Digital Camera to take the photos, of which we had to edit and crop ourselves. We did this in Photoshop which made it able to be completed with ease. The use of the scanner was helpful because we had to get the front cover and contents pages of other various magazines that were already on the market. The blog itself was extremely useful because we were able to arrange all our work into a simple system that was easily recognisable.