Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I feel that I have learnt a lot more techniques in Photoshop since the preliminary and I have learnt the layout and also little features to make a magazine look more professional and I have also learnt a lot of the key terms included on a magazine and key details a magazine needs e.g. sell lines, cover lines, masthead, puffs etc. I have also been able to edit my photos in further detail and also test out a few extra little editing features such as the sharpen tool so I could sharpen my photos a bit extra where I desired them to be slightly sharper. I also have much more control over how much I edit the photos and how severe or normally edited I make the photographs. I also know how to add stroke and change colours of many more things to enable font to stand out and even add borders around photos to make them stand out further which helps draw attention and allow them to be easily noticed, Ive also learnt how to use the magic wand tool to remove backgrounds around certain objects like imported text and photographs. Ive also learnt that a photograph must be rasterised to enable the use of editing features and the magic wand tool.

From looking back at my preliminary task I also realise how much more I have learnt about photoshop even some features that I havent used such as the crop tool on there which wouldve allowed me to crop my images to a smaller size should I of wanted to do so. I also used the eyedropper tool to allow me to replicate the same colour font to keep it consistent. Through using the eye dropper tool it also allows me to ensure that all features that are meant to be the same colour will be able to stay the same colour. I have also used the magic eraser tool in areas to help me remove unwanted areas on certain pieces that I added to my work which helped me to stop the background from being white and stand out against everything else through removing it I was able to make everything in my magazine have the desired background without having anything surrounding it to show that its not been edited/altered.