6. What have you learnt about technologies from constructing this product?

While planning/creating the product, I used various programs that I had never used before. Such as:

Photoshop Elements: While at school, I used this program to create my magazine, by using this, I gained basic skills in image manipulation. This program was good to use because it is a simple form of a very complex program that is aimed at beginners, so I think it was useful for me to begin creating my magazine on this as I hadn't ever used Photoshop previsouly. Once I'd gotten to grips with Photoshop Elements and how to use it, at home, I moved on to a more advanced form of the program. 

I moved onto using this program at home, it was beneficial to me to move on to this version of Photoshop because it is more detailed. It was easier to be more precise with my magazine with things such as image positioning.

When I began creating my magazine on desktop publishing program Photoshop, I didn’t know how to use it properly. I knew from research that most magazines cut out their bands from the original image and place them on a different background. So, to overcome not knowing how to use Photoshop to do this, I watched a Youtube video which tutors you on how to carry out the task. Before I researched, I created a front cover without using this skill, but once I learned how to do it I created another. And I feel because I did learn how to do this, my overall product benefited from this.