AS Media - Evaluation

Q6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

As well as the different media technologies that I have listed above, I have also used many more in my blog. I have used a variety of technologies in my blog to make it media rich and to also add fun and interest into the blog. The media technologies that I have used have mostly been new to me so I have learnt a lot from the time spent on my blog. The technologies I have used throughout are...

• Prezzi
• Slideshare
• Photoshop
• YouTube
• Blogger
• The MatBoard
• Pinterest

Another new technology that I have used during the process of my music magazine is an Apple Mac. I used Apple Macs in my classroom and also in the library. I have used apple macs for my work because I needed to use Adobe Photoshop and it was the only device that had it. I had to learn how to use it as I wasn't very familiar with this computer. This computer had many advantages in that it had all of the Adobe software and it was also accessible at all times. It has different controls to a Windows computer so I had to learn these new things to get the most out of this computer.

Some of the tools I used in Photoshop were the type tool, the magic wand tool and the pen tool. The most important tool that I used was the type tool because of the amount of text that I had to put on my final products. The type tool made it easy to shape text to fit around images and it also made it easier to align. I could also enlarge the text without it becoming blurred. The magic wand tool was useful to my work because I didn't use much photography. I scanned in my illustrations and I used the magic wand tool to get rid of the background of the images. The pen tool also got rid of the background and it made a clearer cut.