technologies

Evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In this media coursework, technologies are very important to organise and present our work. These main technologies (Blogger, Flickr) have been set online therefore the storage space is unlimited.

Blogger- is where we organise, update and present our work. First we needed to discover out initial ideas for us to go further onto our projects, blogger provided us with options which helped us modify our work in: uploading images, font/size and even spellchecker. It helped us plan our work. We had the option to update our work or even delete it. The planning section contained titles suggesting our planning, following which titles suggesting main work. The blogger helped us organise our work, in organising in different folders with separate titles indicating which work. Although blogger had a limitation, it wasn't clear when you received a comment, no indication. An improvement to this might be sending an email to the user implying that he/she has a comment on their work. Another limitation is the draft selection. Once you save as a draft it gets put into a update database which is unorganised.

Photoshop is the key to our productions. Photoshop is an image editor; this type of editing can provide the image with major improvements. Taking our images, we needed to make these images place into a magazine scenario. This scenario includes text, graphics and structure. Photoshop is good for making our magazines have representation, this then we can deconstruct and analysis. Photoshop can enhance the image with so many different ways, all of which are contained in menu bars up the top of the programme. Benefits of Photoshop are the organised software. Images and graphics on Photoshop can be separated into layers; layers are an effective way of organising all of the structure of the magazine. A limitation of Photoshop is for beginner users. Photoshop doesn't provide us with any step by step instructions. Of course there is a help button but this button doesn't appear effectively

Flip Snack is page flip software that enables you to create stylish digital flipping books out of PDF documents. It can be used to share or embed into a website or blog all kinds of documents, from books to newspapers and magazine