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

Evaluation –Question 3

Preliminary Task

Picture of college front cover

Full Product

Full Product

Skills and techniques developed from College to Music Magazine

College Magazine Skills• Drawing Shapes• Using text• Changing picture size• Free Transform• Opacity changing

Music Magazine Skills• Stroke• Drop Shadows• Tilt• Image manipulation – lasso

tool.• Gradient• Blur tool

The lessons which I have learnt are;• Find a suitable location to suit the style of your magazine to

get the photographs how you want them to be.

• Plenty of planning should be done to help you on your way to the finished product and for it to be better.

• For the perfect magazine to be made you need to know the type of audience really well.

What lessons have I learnt?

Stages gone through to make my magazine

Research• Audience• Market

Planning• Pitch• Flatplans• Stylesheets• Plans of Photography• Article

Production• Image Manipulation• Text Manipulation• Layout Design/Manipulation

College MagazineTo make my college magazine I didn’t go

through the same process. This is because

we didn’t have much time to do the magazine. Also

the purpose of the magazine was to be kept

simple.

Activity Technologies Skills Lessons

Cutting out my models for contents

Polygonal lasso Zoom and smoothed edge

I first started using the magnetic lasso tool, but the edges were too rough. So I used the polygonal lasso to create smoother edges.

Cutting out my difficultfonts

Magnetic lasso Shift button select multiple items.

The magnetic lasso tool was good to use on the fonts as it was quick and simple to do. It also looked good once it had been cut.

Photographs Camera Composition Some of my backgrounds needed editing for a better effect but they came out looking good and a good quality.