What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I chose not to use photoshop when creating my product as I have been working from my personal apple macbook and I do not have that software. I have overcome tricky obstacles through making this decision such as trying to rid of the background on various photos i've used for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I had to find a way to do it without photoshop, at first I tried using 'instant alpha' on 'pages' but I found this not to be precise enough so I turned to online tools where there are websites similar to photoshop that are accessible 'https://pixlr.com/editor/' being an example of the one I used.

Computer technology:

I used a memory stick to save all of my coursework to so I could easily move work from laptop to computer which was very convenient. I however, experienced some problems with this when I wasn't 'ejecting' it and a lot of my coursework got ruined before I could use it:

To fix this I had to save what I could from draft documents and piece it back together.

I also used an SD card when taking the photos for my magazine so I could transfer them onto my laptop. 

I used prezi once to create my genre research. It was a free way to create a presentation piece and put lots of information into one piece however I found it to be very time consuming and that is why I only used it the once. 

I used iMovie to create several videos, one to show how I edited a photo and one to use to present. It is a piece of soft wear that my laptop has therefore free of use to me and I found it very useful for editing video footage and putting voice overs and background music in videos to present. 

I used quick time to take all my audio recordings and screen recordings for iMovie. It's really useful as you can select how much proportion of the screen you want it to record therefore any other areas you don't want to be seen don't have to be.

I used pages to assemble and create all of my product. I liked this format because I am familiar with it and it is the application I used to create my media magazine at GCSE. It is simple to use and allows you to choose from an array of fonts, unlimited amount of photos and holds many various other qualities. 

I used this to create a small presentation as it had a variety of online templates. It was free of use and great to use as I don't have power point. All that was required was an email to sign up then you simply click to create a new presentation, scroll through the options provided and choose one that you like then start right away, like so: 

Last but not least I used 'POWTOON' to create a presentation also. It was very similar to emaze, there was a sign up recurred. It was slightly more difficult to navigate my way around but this site gave me more options when editing.