Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your magazine?

Whilst creating my magazines I had to use lots of different technologies, some which I was familar with and others which were new to me. The first stage of the actual making of my magazine, involved me taking photo's of my model in the studio. I used a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 stills camera to take my images, and used the 'RAW' setting so as to enable me to edit them at a later stage. Below is an example of my 'RAW' image before it is edited, and after. I cropped it so it was just of her face and changed the saturation and hue to make the colours stand out more, for example her lipstick.

Once I had taken all my images and chosen the one's I wanted to feature in my magazine, I began the editing process on Photoshop. This was the first time I had used this programme, and it took a bit of getting used to, however it was very easy to learn what to do. On photoshop I cropped and resized my images to make it look how I desired and to fit right on my page. I then began to build up my magazine using different layers, and chose what I wanted and where it should go. I used both words and images on my magazine, I downloaded my main font of www.dafont.com and the font was called, 'Payday'.

Here is a video I filmed of me building up the layers on my magazine...