PROGRAMMES USED IN PROCESS OF MY CONSTRUCTION:
In the construction, planning and development of my music magazine I have learnt a lot about technologies and developed new skills which will definitely help me in the future. Before starting the course we were informed that we will be using an apple mac computer; I hadn't even used one before therefore it did take some getting used to. However, I soon discovered the different exciting programmes that were available and useful in achieving a music magazine. Firstly I came across Safrai web browser; this was one of the most visited programmes. I used it for all my market research and to access my blog and keep updating it.
I used the programme Iphoto during my development, when I took my photographs. After i took pictures many of them had to be rotated and cropped, Iphoto enabled me to do this quickly and view them. I did not edit any of my photo's however In this programme- I used photoshop for that process.
Next, I used word document a lot during the process. Word enables me to annotate parts of my magazine contents and cover without having to use blogger to type everything- This gives a variety of skills to my blog and shows I have used other programmes than just blogger.
I circled the programmes I used on my MAC:
Throughout my development I used the utilities section where there is a tool called "Grab". This enables you to take snap shots of sections you may wish to annotate. This became very handy to me when showing the development process on my blog sometimes when talking about a small section of my magazine I needed to display this without uploading the whole front cover.
The main software I used would probably be Photoshop. I have never used photoshop before but have heard about all the amazing things you can achieve on there. However before photoshop I needed to gain the skills in order to use them in making my magazine- I watched tutorials on http://www.youtube.com/ which gave you a clear explanation of the different tools avaliable. Gradually, I started to use photo shop and edit photographs as a practise- After this I started my preliminary task which I used my photoshop skills on.
Another very important software that I used would be Indesign. This is similiar to photoshop however does not specialize in the editing of photographs. I thought that Indesign would be a suitable software in which to create my double page spread. Similiarily to photoshop, I have not used Indesign before therefore I found it quite hard starting off- Especially because it was hard to go from photoshop where you know the tools quite well to indesign where the tools are totally different.
Using a digital camera- I have had experience when using a digital camera before however have not used it to take proffessional.
TOOLS USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MY PRODUCT:
Useful tools within Photoshop and Indesign:
Quick selection tool on photoshop allowed me to cut the image out and place the photograph on an artifical background. This is what magazines such as NME would do- enhances the photograph and brings more light to it. As you can see above I used the quick selection tool to cut the photograph out then I placed it onto an artifical background in order to erase any edges that were not detected.
Place tool on Indesign is a tool I used greatly throughout my process of creating my double page spread. I clicked onto "file" and then place.
Knowing the knowledge of layers in the photo manipulation program gave me a lot of flexibility. This made be able to create a realistic product such as Kerrang! It let me undo changes and also gave the flexibility on working on one aspect than having to save it all and undo it constantly.
Text wrap tool on Indesign. This allowed me to merge the pull out quote into the rest of the text and situate it directly in the middle of the article.
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