Question Six- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your music magazine?

I feel that I have learnt a lot about technologies whilst constructing my music magazine.
Firstly, I learnt how to use a stills camera accurately. I learnt how to place my arms and have my elbows tucked into my sides to give myself a more steady arm and to make my images more focused. I also learnt how if you hold the shutter button down slightly on the camera it focuses the screen and a grid of thirds appears which allows you to get the proportions right within the image. I also experimented with the use of a tripod and how keeping the camera still makes the images focused.
After taking my images, I used how to use photoshop and went through the tools one by one to figure out exactly what they did and how they could help me in editing my original images.
I learnt how to crop and resize images which is what I for my front cover and I learnt how to enhance colours and bring out other colours whilst making others fade into the background and this made my images more visually attractive. I did most of this using the colour replacement tool which I found particularly useful. I learnt how to get rid of blemishes and make the skin and hair appear softer and smoother using the dodge, burn and smooth tools. I also used the spot healing and the healing tools. I also learnt how to use the layers and everytime I added something to my front cover such as an image, I had to create a layer for it. I also learnt how to rearrange my layers to place somethings on top of others, and to hide somethings behind others.
For my magazine I also learnt how to download fonts from the internet to make the magazine more realistic and add a range to my fonts.I did this for the main coverline on my front cover as the different font makes this stand out and I also used this technique for my editorial so it looked like I, as the editor, had actually signed it which adds more realism to my magazine.
I also used technologies like the SMART whiteboard to gain assessment from my peers, so they could see my magazine on the screen and give me feedback and point to things on the screen so I could visually see where my improvements need to be made and I found this very effective.