Question 6

What have you learned about the technologies from the

process of constructing this product?

During the planning and production of my media product, I

used technologies such as: Adobe Photoshop

Slideshare

Quarkxpress

Blogger.com

Digital SLR Camera

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop allowed me to manipulate photographs that I had taken and be more creative with my

product. I am very familiar with Photoshop, and have used it before, so I used it to create my front cover and contents page. Photoshop allows you

to be a lot more free with images because it is a program specific to

that. I have been able to blend images into one another using Photoshop, and also select people within the image to

leave the background behind.

I created this using

Photoshop

Quark Express

Quark Express is a more unfamiliar program to me, and so it was difficult to use during the production process-

I used it to design my double page spread. I don’t really understand and like this program, maybe because I’m

unfamiliar to it, but I found it confusing and I couldn’t be as free and creative as I wanted. It was a

good program to use for layout design and setting everything in the right

place, but when it comes to pictures and fun elements, it wasn’t the best.

I created this using

Quark Express

Blogger.com

Blogger was the best way to document and keep track of my progression through Media. It is a great site to use, I could refer back to previous

blogs of work, edit them, manipulate them and keep a steady track of

what I was doing easily.

This is a screen shot of

my blogs.

Slideshare

This was a great site to enable questions like these on PowerPoint,

to become a series of slides that others can view on my blog. It was simple to use, with an easy process.

This is a screenshot of one of

my questions.

Through using all of these programs, I have developed new skills and

learned more things about each one.