Friday, 9 May 2014

Question 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


From the start of creating my music magazine, my knowledge of using photoshop has increased considerably. For example I now know how to use different features and filters that I hadn't known was there before. In addition, I have increased my knowledge on how to blur the image into the background to make it look part of the background, making the line of the image not looking as sharp. An example of this would be my magazine contents page. For this I had to blur the image outwards to make a background for the image. This made the line of the cut out image look less sharp.

I feel like I have used more of a variety of techniques than my preliminary task. For example I have included quotes from inside the magazine, competitions and freebies (two free posters) to appeal to the audience where as my preliminary task lacked this. The images taken from the preliminary task I feel didn't give as strong as impact as the main task. This is due to the image quality. Sending the images over, it seemed to distort the image and make it look more pixelised. For my main task I fixed this by using the blur tool to smoothen the image.

Overall, my understanding of softwares has improved greatly throughout this project because at the start i'd barely used software such as photoshop in the years. Also I feel I have a greater understanding and knowledge on how to produce a music magazine and what sort of work goes into making one.                              

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