Evaluation, question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout these images I have detailed how I have used certain tools to produce a positive outcome.


Using Photoshop and all of its tools, from practice and regularity of using them to create my products I have learnt how and when to use them to get certain effects.


As seen from my first front cover draft I found it difficult to create a realistic front cover but through practice and developing my skills I was able to create a front cover which was much better than my first drafts as I shall explain in the video below.

Looking at my drafts!
As you can see from this first front cover draft, I have used the same font throughout and not included a issue number of any logos. My photoshop skills are clearly shown not to be very good at this point of my coursework as you can clearly see a harsh contrast between the model and mast head.

With my second draft I used more of a mixture of fonts but mainly sticking to one which was similar to my mast head for continuity. In photoshop I used the quick selection tool to remove the white backgrounds of the band logos to the right of the page. This draft challenged the conventions of a magazine as most coverlines are found to the left of the page. From this draft on, i used layering to create certain effects such as layering the white text above a back box. This allows for the white text to be seen above the black box; If it were the other way around on layering, the black box would be the only element to see. Another reason to why I changed it was because I felt that it was rather cluttered and not easy for the eye to navigate around. Although I changed this draft, I felt that my strongest photoshop element to this photograph was the model being placed in front of my mast head.

With my third draft I moved my cover lines to the left of the page as I felt it created realism to my product. In photoshop I changed the scale of my main cover line and put "Chloe" in italic font. Once again I decided I wanted to change this draft as the main cover line was larger than the mast head and the image wasn't easy to work around.

This is my final front cover. From my other drafts I developed my layout skills and editing which is clearly shown in this compared to my other drafts. In this photograph I used the Gaussian blur tool on my models face to remove the imperfections. With my use of layering as I explained with the black box and white text, i did the same here. Only difference is that I changed the opacity of the black box.

When I was drafting my first contents page, I didn't used much of my skills from photoshop for this draft as you can see from the simple layout. The only aspect of photoshop I used was layering two boxes and text.

In this 3rd contents page draft i used a lot of layering as seen in my photo above. I used a range of quick selection, and layering.