Question 7: Evaluation

Q7. Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?

Since creating my school magazine for the preliminary task, my knowledge using Photoshop has increased considerably from my previous experience, my school magazine for the preliminary task, my knowledge using Photoshop has increased considerably from my previous experience, which was fairly decent. For example, I now know how to make elements of my magazine stand out visually by applying drop shadows and outer glows, which I was not too established with. In addition to this, I learnt how to select parts of photos using the quick selection tool in order to cut things out cleanly and sharply. An example of this would be the central figure himself on the front cover which gives the magazine a more dynamic, 3D appearance than my school magazine front cover. I have also learnt how to download newer and more interesting fonts from the website Dafont.com, increasing the visual appeal of my magazine. As well as this, the complexity of my pages layout has increased as I have learned how to use layers in Photoshop much more effectively. Furthermore, I have also learned how to use Blogger effectively by the practice I had doing my preliminary, which has enabled me to use the programme more effectively.

Furthermore, drafting my page layout and design atleast once enabled me to have a template when creating the real product on Photoshop. It helped in terms of column positioning, text positioning and even image position.

Overall, my understanding of the software has improved greatly throughout this project because at the start, my knowledge was not professional, and now I have produced a professional looking magazine using it.