Showing posts with label G. Evaluation: Technologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label G. Evaluation: Technologies. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 February 2013

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

This is Adobe Photoshop CS6, it is the program I used to create my 3 products and it's the best program available for the task I had to complete. An advantage to using Photoshop is that it has a huge variety of tools and effects you can apply to your work. The tool I think I used most inside Photoshop was probably the soft edged rubber. This tool allows you rub around a picture/photo but gives it not such a harder look and somewhat fades the picture and removes the sharp edges to the photo, perfect for using in my magazine pages. 



Flickr is a photo-sharing website that you sign up too and can post photos for other people using the website to see. It's a useful resource when doing analysis of other magazines. It allows you to attach these 'notes' to the picture and when someone views it they can hover over the noted section and read what you've wrote. This feature makes it incredible useful when doing quick analysis, however it isn't the best when it comes to presentation as it lacks that diversity that other programs have, such as Prezi. 


I used this website in a similar way to how I used Flickr, to present my analysis's. This however, was better than flickr as it was different. It's like a slide show, but its more exciting and overall a more interesting way to present information. However, a point against Prezi is that it takes a while to make one and that it isn't the best for displaying alot of information in one go, in my opinion.

The use of the website Blogger to store and present all my final work is definitely something I felt was a benefit to using technology rather than using a folder for example. It has a very useful labels feature which allows you to filter through work and products very quickly allowing you to get what you want when you want it. Blogger also allows me to edit my posts very quickly and effectively. These features are why I find this online method of storage and organisation better compared to physical copies in folders. 

As previously mentioned, i personally prefer blogger and these other online applications, like Prezi in comparison to traditional techniques. This also applies when i was analyzing other products. Prezi was a much more appealing to me than writing traditional essays to analyse. This is because it is a more creative way to do things and overall more fun. An advantage to these online methods is that they are easily be uploaded onto your blog through embedding whereas the paper copies would have to be scanned and uploaded where they would lose quality or they would have to be word processed which would be incredibly tedious. However, a advantage to traditional methods would be that they are easier to change if mistakes are made they can easily be adaptive and changed. This is lost in the online software's as the method of editing is a lot slower and can be boring.