I am a very technological person, I enjoy
technology such as computers, phones and tablets a lot and find technology interesting
seeing the ways it can progress and
thought I knew enough to do well straight
from the get go. I soon found out that I was wrong. When I first began using
all the technology that was in the media department such as the mac, scanner I
was in all honesty clueless but soon found my footing.
Blogger is a website that I had never used
before or even had heard off. It’s associated with Google and allows people to
publish blog posts on their own personal profile for other people to see.
Blogger is hugely important regarding my media studies work as it contains all
of my work for the examiner to see. Every piece of work I completed needs to be
uploaded in chronological order publicly for anyone to see. It is extremely
useful and I have learnt the ability of using embed codes to stream
technological advanced pieces of work e.g. from slide share or Prezi and the
ability to use Blogger well in general. Photo shop is also quite unfamiliar. I
have never used Photo Shop as an editing tool for photos therefore this is
something new and useful I have learnt. I uploaded all the shots I took for my
magazine onto it and then edited them for a more professional feel, the tools
on photo shop got easier to use. I was able to compare similar photos and then
choose the best one for ‘techniques’.
Photoshop Elements 11 offers two
workspaces, the Organizer and the Photo Editor, and you can toggle between the
two.
On photo shop the first tool which I would
confidently I could use was the spot healing brush. I used this on
all of my photos used throughout my magazine to make the models look aesthetic
and professional. I learned how to use a lot of the tools raging from ones to
make the eyes look sharper to turning someone purple which I found by accident.
All of the tools on Photoshop are very useful when editing all the photos for
my pages for my music magazine.
Photo shop is a very complicated piece of software
with many different tools such as a layer mask which makes the possibility
to modify the same object again and again and, if you’re not satisfied, go back
and return to the original image possible.
Another tool I found useful was to change
the light levels on a photo as some of them were in not the best
light while others were in unflattering light which made the quality of my
photos lower and didn't look as aesthetic so by using the light tool I could
fix this and make it look better. By using all of the other tools it made my
photos look magazine quality very aesthetically pleasing.
One of the things I found hardest about
photo shop was the organization skills it required with making sure your layers
are all in order and don’t interfere with each other, while on of the easiest
things I found I could do on Photoshop was actually to change the colors of
objects. I did this on my final product and changed the blouse colour of Lauren
Sharpe from red to blue and then used the colours from the blouse to decided my
colour scheme tying her to the page.
One thing I really enjoyed using was the
camera, I chose the lighting, angels and locations carefully to get the best
outcome I could from the photo shoots I held. Also, by adjusting the ISO and
aperture I was able to take photos in a range of different lightings to try and
show different things through the photo and the art of photography. One
photography idea I readily used on all my photos was the rule of thirds which
makes all of your photos balanced and look right I felt that this was a crucial
idea as I wanted the best quality photos.
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