Technologies int evaluationg
- 2. TECHNOLOGIES
- 3. PHOTOSHOP I used Photoshop to produce my front cover. I had to learn and develop my photoshop skills to develop a quality front cover. A tool that I used when producing my front cover was the elipse tool. I used the elipse tool to make my puff which I would later put the price of the magazine on in text, using the elipse tool allowed me to make a round circular shape appropriate to fit for the front cover and price. I also used the elipse tool to add a second puff which would state an article in the magazine. Another tool I used on photoshop was the rectangle tool, I used this to make my banner and skyline. I made a thick black rectangle shape on the top and bottom to make the skyline and the banner. I also used the rectangle tool to make bullet points on the banner and to make a white line in between the text saying ‘Plus!’ and the bullet pointed features. A skill I learnt and developed on photoshop was my image editing skills. I edited the image that I had by adjusting the levels of the image. This would done by Image>Adjustments>levels and then adjusting the input and output levels. This was to make the dark colours darker and the bright colours brighter in the image. I feel this really improved my image and really brought out the colours of spray paint out and made the coverstar stand out in the midst of it. A skill I used with photoshop was the stroke effect when writing my coverlines, masthead, headline and issue number an coverdate. This skill gives text a thicker outline and makes it stand out. I feel I used it for this purpose but also to make coverlines, issue number and the coverdate look better. I feel I used this skill to great effect.
- 4. QUARK XPRESS I used the picture content tool for all my images in quark. Using this tool involves making the image fit into a certain sized box so it can be put into the project the correct size as demonstrated to by the images. I also used technologies with Quark, I used Quark to design my contents page and double page spread. I also used the rectangle box tool in quark, I used this tool to add shapes to one side of my double page spread. This involved making the rectangles the same size and positioning them in a pattern to make the page more lively and look better as it was quite bland. The four shapes done by the rectangle box tool This is where the line tool was used Another tool that I used was the line tool. I used this to separate parts of my contents page. Below would feature the article names and above in bold the name of the magazine. This was simply part of my design and the line tool was important to make things look bolder and more stood out. I also used the line tool to separate my article columns. These were my final designs that were produced on Quark.
- 5. NIKON DS100 Final images (taken by this camera).