What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing your product?

Images are extremely important in representing your demographic in magazines: from the quality of the image, models code of dress, code of gesture and code of expression. I used a high quality camera to take all my images as I wanted professional looking images to dip into the middle class category. I took most of my used images outdoors as the backgrounds were more interesting to look at and there would have been too much white space on my front cover for my audience. I also took images in the studio, also at different angles as I wanted a large range of images to choose from for my final pieces. To place these images into the magazine I used Photoshop. I created the 3 media products on Adobe Photoshop CC 2014, this is an extremely diverse programme which I confident on, this helped the speed in which my work was completed in. Photoshop is a huge advantage to this process and despite already having a wide knowledge of the programme I believe I have learned even more on the programme after this project. I took advantage of the programme as much as possible: using levels and curve tools to bring out the best image in my photographs, I also took advantage of their layers asset and played around with composition until I got the best possible layout. My main text I used for writing I edited in Photoshop using the spacing settings, this font would now be iconic to my magazine as it is unique to my brand – no other brand uses it. I created my main body of text font using a font in Photoshop and adapted it myself, however for my masthead I found the font of dafont.com a website that lists fonts made by designers and they upload them to the site for users to use within regulations. If I were to publish my magazine I would have to pay the designer for the rights to this font, after getting in contact with the designer it would only cost £3.38 for the rights to this font and to publish it in my magazine, it would be worth it for the icon it brings to my magazine. It was my first time using I have had to complete my coursework online and Blogger was a great site for it. The site is nicely laid out and it was simple to add tags and find work on my blog to see what I was missing. This site was an advantage as I could search for the tag and see what work was incomplete appose searching for sheets of paper in a folder facing the risk of tearing pages when swapping them around or transporting my folder home which could get wet in the rain, it was much easier to just log in.