What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

This is the asus laptop I used at home to do the majority of my work. I also used the dell computers at college during lessons to carry on with work.

I also used a memory stick to transfer work from my laptop to college and vice versa. This was extremely helpful because it allowed me to move work around in order to complete things faster aswell as backing up any work.

I also used microsoft outlook to email work to myself from college to home and vice versa when I had forgotten my memory stick. I also used it to keep organise dates with my models and keep in contact with teachers.

I used my lumix compact camera to take all my photos for my preliminary task.

By the time I was going to take my photos for my main task, I had my Canon 60D SLR which was alot better for taking my images because I was able to change many settings in order to get the image I wanted. The photos were also better quality.

My epson stylus printer was very helpful for scanning in my mockups.

I also used dafont.com to download the font I used for my masthead. I found this website to be very useful and it had a wide variety of fonts I could look at and choose from.

I used Corel Paint Shop Pro X to manipulate all of my images, as you can see from my print screens. I used this to adjust the photo and improve it, aswell as cut out the background ready to move in to in design. The tools I found most useful were the smart photo fix and the lasoo.

I learnt to use Adobe InDesign to create my magazine for the preliminary and main task. I found it difficult at first, but eventually I was able to use it quite easily. It was very good for positioning text, which I found when doing other work programmes like paint shop pro wasn't very good for.

I also used Publisher to create my timeline, table of organisation and moodboards which was helpful.

I then print screened and moved these documents in to paint so I could make them in to images and upload them to my blog.

I also used Microsoft Word to type up my preliminary task evaluation and my location recces.

I used Microsoft Power Point quite frequently. I used it to put together all my research and for my flat plannings. I found it was a good way to put information together.

I uploaded all these documents to slideshare and scribd which then allowed me to embed them in to my blog posts. This was incredibly helpful when putting up my work.

I created a blogger account to upload all my work on to. I found this a good way to put a body of work together and was very easy. It allowed me to upload images and my powerpoints and documents from slideshare and scribd, aswell as explain each part of my work in a post.