What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
In this section of the evaluation, I will be showing some
programs I have used throughout the creation and publishing of my music
magazine, why I chose to use them and what I have learnt while using them.
Serif PagePlus x6
The main application that I used in the construction of both
my preliminary task and main music magazine was Serif PagePlus x6. This is a
very good tool for making publications due to its wide variety of page, picture
and text editing tools. Some examples of where these have come in handy for my
magazine are for my final masthead, where I used the gradient fill feature, and
the glowing around the slogan. I also tried out PagePlus x9, released in November
2015, and it had many helpful features such as mini tutorials. However, in the
end I stuck with x6 as I was more used to the layout!
Serif PhotoPlus x6
The second Serif feature I used was PhotoPlus, which is a
great photo editing tool that I needed to crop out backgrounds and make minor
editing improvements to my images. This program could be accessed straight from
PagePlus, which was really helpful in terms of ease-of-use. The use of this application has helped me learn a lot about orienting photos properly and also the importance of taking photos on a neutral background if I want to cut them out, as this was severely annoying and time consuming when I had to manually cut out a person from a busy background.
Microsoft Word
This popular and common text tool was used by me a few times during construction to help orient text the way I wanted it, and also to double check everything was going to fit on the page.
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