Technology: What I've Learnt From The Process of Constructing My Product

While constructing my magazine, I used two main programs in order to create it: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. While I had quite a bit of knowledge pertaining the use of Photoshop already, using InDesign was a whole other thing. Photoshop was quick and easy to adjust to while InDesign was confusing and frustrating. After a while of using it, I came up with a first draft for how my cover would look using the image of a real artist:

After finding how much I liked the design and the font, I recruited some friends in order to be my models for the photographs. Picking the photos out to go in places was trickier than I thought it would be. I edited photos in different ways to practice. 

I also tried out pictures in the designs I'd already prepared for the cover, contents page and feature article. I struggled to find a photo which flattered the feature article, before realising that it was the layout of the feature article that was the problem.

I made a lot of edits of certain pictures in order to see how they changed the magazine style. These were a few tries:

And this is the final photo which I used in the feature article.

Which overall, looked like this:

I learnt a lot concerning how to use InDesign as well as learning more about Photoshop. Making the magazine has helped to improve my editing skills and helped me to figure out the programs.