Evaluation Question 6

1. E V A L U A T I O N
C H A R L I E C R U M P

2. W H A T H A V E Y O U L E A R N T A B O U T T E C H N O L O G I E S
F R O M T H E P R O C E S S O F C O N S T R U C T I N G T H I S
P R O D U C T ?
Question 6

3. P H O T O S H O P
• The first time I used Photoshop
was to create my school
magazine. I was very unsure of
what all the little icons meant and
so I received a lot of help from my
teacher. I also used YouTube to
help; I watched short tutorials that
would enable me to use the basic
tools effectively. The end product
was satisfactory but not excellent.
I was a newbie with Photoshop
and so was not capable of
creating a brilliant product.

4. E D I T I N G
P H O T O S
• I had never edited photos before and so
again, this was a new concept for me. I
used PhotoShop to edit the photos I had
chosen to use from my photo shoot. I
received a lot of help from my teacher
and my peers and I eventually began to
work out the tools I needed to create the
image I was after. If I was to go back and
create another magazine, I would be
more able to get straight into working on
and editing photos because I would have
a whole lot more experience in that area.
My Photoshop skills have definitely
improved throughout the process of
editing photos. My editing skills have
definitely improved since doing the school
magazine.

5. …
• When it came to actually making my
music magazine, I felt more comfortable
with that technology and so I could use
Photoshop a lot more effectively,
making better use of the opportunities it
offers. I experimented a lot more with
my designs because I knew how to and
I wanted to explore my options. It is
evident from the finished product that I
have improved my Photoshop skills
from the beginning of this course up
until now, as my finished music
magazine is extremely more
sophisticated and just better looking in
general than my school magazine.

6. I N D E S I G N
• Like PhotoShop I had never used
InDesign either and so at first I found it
extremely difficult to use. Although my
school magazine contents page is not
awful, it does not look very
professional either, I think that there is
a clear difference between my school
magazine and my music magazine
and that will be down to experience. I
had gained much more experience in
using these types of software and so
when it came to creating the music
magazine contents page, I was able to
create a much more effective and
impacting page.