EVALUATION Q6What have you learnt about technologies

from the process of constructing this product?

Hardware Used

• NIKON D2100

• Apple MacBook Air

• HP PC Tower and Monitor

• iPhone Camera

Software Used

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Adobe Photoshop

• Facetune

• Slide Share

• Google Drive

• Google

• Microsoft Word

• Blogger

iPhone Camera

I noticed that on my iPhone camera the photos where high

quality and they were above the quality I expected and

using my smart phone made the images easily accessible

to email to myself and transfer onto the computer. It was

also very useful as the images linked up to my Mac so I

could view/edit/blog them from a larger screen. I have an

application on my phone which is very good for editing

photographs of people so I did a few bits of editing on that,

however if I did not take the photographs on my iPhone I

would not have been able to use tis application.

Nikon D2100

This is a professional style camera that I found was quite

complex to use. Before I took any photographs I thought

that this would be the better camera to use however the

photos where not as accessible as they ended up to be on

the iPhone and as I was working to a deadline I had to

make sure that I was being time efficient so I decided

against this hardware. Also some of the editing processes

could have only taken place on an iPhone so this would

have effected the quality of the final product.

Apple MacBook Air

I found that this hardware (my personal laptop) did not work

as well as a Windows with Google Drive and Blogger. This

laptop was more convenient with photos and editing

however I found many system errors when running Google

along side it. Apple works best with its own search engine

‘Safari’ and the online software works best with Google

Chrome. However Apple seemed to be faster and more

compatible with Adobe software.

HP Tower and Monitor

I found that using this PC was more effective when running

programs such as PowerPoint, Word and all Google

software. This hardware had problems running software

such as Photoshop I found that Adobe was greatly

compatible and fairly slow with Windows.

FacetuneFacetune is an app I have on my iPhone which costs £2. It is great for reducing lines and blemishes in the face and you can refine parts for the body that look to large or not big enough for example I took my models neck in to make her look slimmer and more feminine. It also has a highlight feature which makes certain parts of the shot stand out which I used on her eyes, eyebrows, jewelry and hair. Any shots that her teeth show the where whitened on this app also. I could have used Photoshop for this editing however because I took the photographs on my phone it was easier to open them up in that app , also these editing process would take longer on Photoshop.

Photoshop

I used Photoshop for all three of my pages for my magazine and I used it for

my preliminary task. Photoshop was the best program I used in this project as

I was able to design, layout and edit my photos, text and magazine. I used

tools such as Contrast and Brightness to alter my images to give them more

vibrancy, I also used the magic wand tool, quick selection tool, magnetic lasso

and the eraser to cut round my images of Isla Koyle so she could appear in

front a pure white background. For my double page spread I highlighted one of

Isla’s quotes, “It’s all been a blur” and to go alone side this I decided to blur my

main image of Isla on the double page spread. This required me to use the

Gallery and select a filter to make Isla body slightly distorted in a blurred way.

On my front cover I used The 3D perspective tool to make the title of the

magazine have an effective isometric outer shadow.

Models

Megan Orr – Isla Koyle

Issie Davis – Kylie Cole

Sam Hamer – Ned Cheeran

Kaylyn Channer – Eliza Kelly

Simrita Khela – Rhiannon Sauders

Originally Simrita Khela (SK) was the first choice of model

for my main artist however after shooting with SK I found

that she didn’t fit the artist I had I mind, I found that she had

to much of a mature look to her that would not appeal to my

target audience and she also would not have suited the

genre of music that I was intending for my main artist to be

associated with. So I decided to do a second shoot with

Megan Orr (MO).