Evaluation - What have you learnt about technologies?

6. What have you learnt about technologies?

I used many different technologies including adobe in design software, paint shop pro editing software, digital camera, webcam and the internet. I have learnt that using the software on the computers to edit photos and my magazine needed more time than I thought. Because I had a lot of different ideas of my own and from audience feedback, I took a while on how to place the text and images. I understood most of the software, but after they got updated I had to understand how the new software worked. It was hard to understand how to place text and images on top of each other, and also how to make some images because more faint and effected digitally. Using a digital camera helped me a lot to take the photo’s for my magazine front cover and the contents in the magazine. I had to edit these using paint shop pro. It was easy to edit because I knew exactly what I wanted to do, for example brighten them and change the colour to black and white. But I learnt to use hue and saturation to enhance the image too. I also used the digital camera to upload videos of my diary to my blog. I learnt that uploading the video was the longest process. As it took 17 hours to upload one video to YouTube, after waiting an hour to upload it the blogger website and then finding out it cancelled itself. Lastly I used the internet to use images for my magazine such as logos and images of objects to include in my magazine. Finding the right images to fit into the colour scheme was hard and which images simply fitted into the magazine well.