1. EVALUATION
QUESTION 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Magic Wand Tool
I clicked on the white
background then right
clicked and selected ‘select
inverse’ which then selected
only the text.
I used the magic wand tool on
Photoshop. I used this
throughout the project on the
front cover, contents page and
double page spread. It was
especially useful for text.
Photoshop

3. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Clone Stamp Tool
I used the clone stamp tool to
move the girl over making her
closer to the boy in turn making it
look more intimate.
Starting image
Final image
I made the brush bigger and
selected the image I wanted
to clone by holding alt and
right clicking.
I then cloned it to
the right so the girl
Photoshop
was closer.

4. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Filter Editing
I used filters to edit the picture so it
would look warmer and so it would
have a more ‘country’ feel and fit my
Photoshop
house style.

5. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Photoshop

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Changing the Opacity
The opacity of the puff was
100%. I changed this to 85%
so it would still stand out
but wouldn’t block out the
main cover image.
Photoshop

7. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Crop Tool
First of all I went file >
transform > rotate 90 CW so
the image was the correct
way round
Then I selected the
crop tool and I then applied the crop
cropped the image to get my final image.
to its desired size.
Photoshop

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
I used ‘PicMonkey’ and ‘DaFont’ to get
different font types for my magazine.
These sites gave more interesting and
appropriate fonts than the default
fonts on Photoshop and InDesign.
Out of the numerous options
I picked the ‘fancy’ category
as these fonts fitted the
house style of my magazine.
PicMonkey & DaFont
I opened a blank document,
selected the font ‘Rye’ and
typed my magazine name to
get my chosen font.

9. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Making a Barcode
DaFont

10. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
To create my magazine pages I
opened a new InDesign
document
I selected 4 pages, 1 for the
contents page, 1 for the cover,
and 2 for the double page
spread.
I then moved the pages around so they were
set in order and the double page spread was
now one page.
InDesign

11. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
To create a house style for my
magazine I used the I then highlighted the text I
eyedropper tool wanted that colour and used a
swatch of the selected colour to
change the colour of the text.
Once selected I held
down alt and picked the
colour I wanted
InDesign

12. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
I selected the spreads option so
To export my final magazine, I the double page spread exported
went to file > export. as one image rather than two.
I then selected a JPEG file type
to allow upload to the blog.
InDesign