Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about new technologies from the process of constucting this product?

So what have I learnt about new technologies?

The first thing we did was taking all the photos needed for our magazine, but instead of a normal camera, which would have been used around 10 years ago, we used a digital one. The digital camera can handle lightning way better and is quicker in doing the perfect shots, they also have a way better quality than the ones they used back then.

After we shot those Photos we were able to manipulate them, to get a better lightning or to cut out some parts of them, that we don't want. We are able to do that now, a couple years back that would only be a fantasy. So in the case of magazine I just gave the pictures a better contrast and turned them into black and white pictures, because that fitted better with the house style of my magazine.

Examples of Normal and Photoshopped photos:

Another very useful tool we were able to use was InDesign, in which we designed our magazine layout. In this software, we used all the pieces of work we prepared before and put them all in one to get the final product. And the fact that all of this is on the computer makes it way easier to bring it in the internet and react to the feedback from your readers. Back then all of this was a way to long process.

After we finished all of this we had one more tool, called blogger. On blogger it is possible to share the work you have done to everyone on the internet because it becomes accessible to look at. So We had to design our blog and explain every single step we took on our way to the finished product. Everyone visiting my blog can see the progress I made in all that time and all the work of course.

My conclusion is that all those possibilities to use new technology to help me designing and planning all of the work I have done in the last few months. On this way, I developed my IT skills, or lets say at least improved them. And without the digital media we used, it wouldn't have been possible. Well it would have been, but it would have taken a way longer time.