BY KYLE TURNER

SKILLS LEARNT DURING PRODUCTION.

I have significantly improved my photography skills as I have experimented with different angle shots and learnt the many photography conventions into specific genres of music.

I have also learnt how to take these photos and edit them to change the colour contrast and lighting, change the orientation and size of the image to fit my cover. Furthermore I have learnt to control the lighting in my picture to give a more professional look. I have learnt the specific angles and camera shots that I needed to use in order to be conventional within my chosen genre of music.

MY PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS HAVE IMPROVED

I have developed my editing skills on Photoshop and fireworks. I have taken many images and developed them by editing them such as cutting edges, cropping out backgrounds and deleting any unnecessary parts of my image in order to make my images look as professional as possible.

I used Photoshop in order to perfect the quality of my images by removing the background and any existing parts of the background. I also used Photoshop to change and adjust the colour contrasts which enabled me to produce a better and high-quality product.

DEVELOPED MY PHOTOSHOP SKILLS!

EDITING SKILLS I HAVE DEVELOPEDThroughout my production I have continuously improved my editing skills as by now I know how to remove my backgrounds. I have developed my skills of being able to adjust the lighting within my image to make them stand out and to improve the overall quality of my image. Furthermore , I have learnt how to crop and resize my images using Photoshop, this enabled me to remove all elements of my background which improved the overall quality of the image . Finally I have learnt how to save my images as a JPEG to then allow me to insert my image onto my blog.

I have learnt how to crop and edit my images in order to make them as professional as possible, I have learnt to use the crop tool to cut and delete edges and backgrounds that I want to get rid of.

I have learnt how to change the colour contrast and change the artist effects of the image to make the image look unique and more professional.

Cropping & Editing

Microsoft Word : This was primarily the basis of my magazine which I used as a platform to construct my magazine as it had some essential tools that I needed to make my magazine look appealing and have an effective look. I was able to use text boxes and a variety of fonts which helped create my magazine which wouldn’t of been apparent on other programmes. It also made the construct of my magazine quicker and easier.

PROGRAMMES I USED TO CONSTRUCT MY MAGAZINE

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES USED IN MY PRODUCTIONI used Microsoft Word for various images in order to remove the backgrounds of my images, this enabled me to improve the quality of my image and also add my image onto other backgrounds that were conventional to my genre. If the editing of word didn’t fully remove the background then I used Photoshop to cut round edges mainly the hair; this enabled me to produce a high quality image. Microsoft Words cropping and background removal was a quick and easy process and was easily accessible for me to quickly edit my images in very little time with high quality results.

• I have learnt various techniques in photo editing and my general photography skills have improved tremendously . I have learnt specific conventions into the shot types used in certain genres and developed this into my production work.

• My general photography skills have improved as I have experimented with different angles and lighting which has made my final photos in my opinion look slightly more professional then what I would of done normally.

• I Have learnt many new techniques on Photoshop to help cut out certain parts of my images, remove background, create colour contrasts and effects on my images , improve the lighting on certain images to improve the quality of my work.

Overall Summary of the skills learnt.