During the time of opening a blog to now, I have learnt so much about all sorts of different technologies. Before starting making my magazine, I didn't even know how to switch a camera on, but managed to progress by practising and taking pictures, long and wide shot, close and extreme close up. The camera I used (In the picture) proved extremely helpful, as it allowed me to take, clean and clear photos. The fact that the camera that I used was digital, allowed me to see the image I had taken on the screen, and gave me the option of keeping or deleting it, if it came our wrong or blurry, however my camera comes with a lot of space, so I was able to keep every photo on there, until I uploaded it on the computer, which is another thing I learnt how to do during the process of making my magazine. For this task I actually went and brought a camera, so I could learn more about how to use it and to develop my knowledge on it. I have learnt how to zoom in and out, how to focus on a certain product, to blur the background and how to know what is the best angle to take the best possible picture is from. The main thing I learnt about this camera, when I actually got to grips with the camera and how to function it, was how to use the features of the camera and how to get different effects for my images.
Before starting this course I had never opened a blog before, so I was new to the whole thing. This allowed me to learn about how to use blogger and and allow development to occur, within my knowledge of how to blog, how to create a post, to follow people, to publish and how to add pictures of my final design to a new post, ready for deconstruction.
I used a editing software called Pixlr. I had done nothing like editing or photoshopping before, so I had made very slow progression. So I could get used to it, I edited some pictures or artists first and can safely say, without doing this I wouldn't of got the hang of it, at all. In the process of constructing the magazine, I did so much on Pixlr, which included: Cropping, highering and lowering the saturation, contrast and hue, Changing the colour of a background, removing unwanted objects off of a image, photoshopping, adding effects, adding text and how to duplicate an image. Using Pixlr allowed me to develop my product and allowed it to have a different and unique effect to it, making it more interesting and in some way successful. An example when photoshop was crucial,was when I had to make my two images look like they were taken in the same room, I had to carefully edit the background, making them the same colour all around. Without this, the images would of looked very odd and extremely uneven and would not have resulted in a successful magazine.
The internet was extremely helpful during the making of my magazine, because it not only helped me with my research, and allowed me to deconstruct other magazines of my chosen genres. Another aspect of the internet that allowed progression and development to occur was being able to blog. This showed me the skills I have gained and allowed me to keep track of my progression but it also it helped me during the development and creation of my blog, allowing me to document and publish my work, showing me the new skills I was gaining. The internet allowed me to look at forms and conventions of magazines, which helped me look at what made a successful magazine.
Overall I feel that technology has helped me with the creation on my front cover, contents page and my double page spread. Without these technologies I would of never been able to create a successful magazine, or progress in these technical aspects and wouldn't have gained and further skill or knowledge in this are.
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