What have I learnt?

Throughout the progression of making my music magazine I have gained a sufficient understanding of how to use Photoshop effectively; doing things such as:• Altering the colour or lighting of an image • Erasing the background to an image• Outlining text or adding drop shadows• Airbrushing images• Removing red eyes from the model

I have learnt how to use Cam Studios and Adobe Premiere Pro to make and alter movies; for example doing things like:• Recording the computer screen – selecting a part of the screen that I wish to record• Altering the speed of a video• Cutting parts of video and or music• Putting music to match a video • Altering the volume of music and adding fades in or out• Adding text or captions to parts of the video

I have learnt how to use Blogger.com:• I understand how to use appropriate language and formatting• I can embed things from various websites such as Prezi.com and Slideshare.com• I can attach files and pictures

I have learnt how to use Examtime:• I can create mind maps of different colours, fonts and sizes• I can create revision cards with lots of information• I can insert/attach images and alter them to fit the style of revision I want

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I have learnt how to create and transform word clouds on Tagul.com; I would transform them by:• Making a cloud in the shape that I want• Changing the colour of the background and the text • Choosing the amount of times a specific word shows up • Writing my own words and changing their fonts• Changing the texts font size • Animating the text so that it moves/rotates

I have learnt how to use Prezi to make presentations. I have learnt how to:• Create my own style of presentation • Attach files, images and videos• How to add/change themes • How to create shapes

I have learnt how music magazines in general are structured and arranged and the kinds of elements that are commonly used, for example:• Large mastheads• Many different types of fonts and text sizes• Many images throughout that have meaning/relate to the captions or stories• Catchy and intriguing headlines• Clear but concise stand-firsts• Drop down capital letters• Quite a wide range of complimentary for the colour scheme

I have learnt that many magazines base their front cover text around a hierarchy of size, using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; they use this theory in order to produce the right kind of information to their target audience.I have learnt that on contents pages, the page numbers rarely go do down in chronological order.I have learnt that in order to get one really good image, you have to take about 20 because each image is different.

I have learnt how to use Dafont.com to download abstract and different fonts.

I learnt how to use upload images onto Pinterest.com.