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

Hardware

The hardware is all the equipment and devices used to construct the magazine ranging from the computer to the SD card.

Hardware

I used a range of hardware in the production of my magazine. One the most significant piece of equipment is the white Intel IMac that I used to do the basis of my work on.

The Hardware that comes with this IMac is the standard mouse and key board, I think that this hardware has been beneficial to the production of my magazine as they are easy to use with good short cuts available which is good when designing.

Hardware

The photography equipment was an important part of the construction of this magazine. The camera that I used was Nikon D3100 – Digital SLR which is a manually set camera, the shutter speed was set at 1/300.

This piece of Hardware is called the horseshoe flash trigger. This is in sync with the strobe and the camera it also set at 1/300 and it is used to make sure lights flash at the right time.

The SD card is used to the store the photos on camera and the can be transferred onto the computer.

Hardware

Other pieces of camera equipment included the Hemisphere 300-stobe light which is the device that sends the flash in sync with the camera when the photo is a taken, this was vital a part of the photography equipment.

These items are soft boxes they are used to soften the light so it does not appear to harsh on the photo.

The last piece of photography equipment was the backdrop, which gives the white background this was also lit by two other strobes.

Software Software is the programs on the computer that

were used to create the magazine. I used several pieces of software in the creation of my magazine, some were more important than others.

Software

Photoshop was one of the most important pieces of software that I used as I used it to create the whole magazine, I had previous experience with Photoshop so I was familiar with how it works which enabled me to do exactly what I wanted with my magazine rather the learn the software.

Software

This is a screenshot of my magazine front cover opened up in Photoshop, the layout of Photoshop allows you to edit the the work easily and quickly. The left side of the screenshot you can see the layers, the layers are all the different pieces of the front cover.

This is the tool bar, this has all the tools that are available to alter the image or add things to it, also on the top of the first screenshot you can see another selection of options that provide various editing options.

Software

This screen shot is of the magazine front cover not finished. You can see that the image was one of the last layers to add to the front cover.

These are the different layers, everything you see on the magazine is on a separate layer. The highlighted layer is that layer you are on, so in this case the image.

Software (tools)

The box tool is used to select Shapes from and image so Be cut or edited.Lasso tool is uses to cut out detailed shapes leaving them with no

Background. This tool is used to soften marks on an image.

The paint bucket is used to make the block colors such as the background

This is the type, all my writing was done using this

The color palate is where you choose the colours.

Software

I used word a lot throughout the creation of my magazine particularly with the article. Photoshop isn’t really made for writing and so it is better to the the bulk writing in word as it has features that make it significantly easier.

This is a screenshot of my article writing in word, this shows the features that word has to make it easy to do large writing because of simple features such as spell check, paragraphing, highlighting ect. Word is very good at making it easy and quick to work which is why it was a key piece of software in the creation of the magazine.

Software