6. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Throughout the creation of my media products, I learned a lot about several technologies. Primarily, Photoshop.

 Clearly Photoshop was the primary tool I used to create my media products, as the level of editing and polish would not be possible in other products or software (namely paint, Microsoft office etc.)

For example, here on my front cover, the masthead, headlines and practically everything was produced in Photoshop.

The images I took where cropped with Photoshop tools, placed into Photoshop and positioned in it too. Using the tools to position the primary figure in the grey hoodie behind the other members was done thanks to Photoshop. Additionally, after changes in positioning were suggested by my teacher, it was incredibly easy to hide layers and use free-transform to edit the size and positioning of the band members, in order to create a better sense of depth.

Throughout the course of the creation of my three products I not only gained insight into how Photoshop works, but how it can be used to manipulate any image and to bring something new into existence through nothing but other photographs.