Digital Technology

Digital Technology

Throughout the course and while producing my work, I believe that I learnt a lot about editing on Photoshop and I developed my skills quickly. I used a Canon 1000D and I learnt a lot about using this camera, including how to frame the perfect picture to go onto a front cover of a magazine, and how not to frame a picture so that I wouldn’t make any mistakes and make the look of my product unprofessional. On my first task, the college magazine, it clearly shows my lack of knowledge and skills which is why it is so basic and unconventional. I used the ‘text tool’ many times for my college magazine to add masthead, headings, subheadings, plugs and feature stories. As I didn’t know sites like dafont existed, I used the basic fonts which I found on Photoshop, like: Arial, Calibri and Georgia. I also adjusted the levels for my front cover image to make sure it was the right brightness and contrast. On my final product, you can clearly see how far my skills developed in terms of how I used digital technology, as it looks a lot more like a professional magazine and it is also conventional, using the right camera skills so that it is the correct lighting and framing and also editing skills if there are any flaws or parts that are unnecessary on the magazine. For my final product, I used a range of different tools, including: the spot healing brush, the eraser, the brush tool and the quick selection tool. With the spot healing brush, I used this on my model to erase any flaws because on existing magazines they were edited so they were no flaws at all so doing this made it conventional and made my model look appealing to the target audience. I used the eraser to edit the background of my front cover image out because I only wanted the model to appear. Finally, the use of the quick selection tool became useful when I wanted to erase big amounts of the image as using the eraser took up more of my time so the eraser was better for erasing small parts.