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

This is the laptop that I did most of my work on when I was at home. I also used the dell computers at college to do my work during lessons.

I also used a memory stick to transfer work from my laptop to college and my work in my lessons to my laptop at home to carry on with my work. This was very helpful because it allowed me to work in many different places in order to complete things faster as well as backing up any work.

I took all the photos for my magazine on my canon camera. This camera provided good quality images because I was able to change many settings in order to get the image I wanted. Having a professional camera also meant that I could create more ‘magazine realistic’ photos.

I used Microsoft outlook to email work to myself from college to home and the other way around. I also used it to keep in contact with teachers and help keep tract of deadlines and other important information.

I used Corel Paint Shop Pro X to edit some of my images when I did not have use of the college computers and Photoshop. I used both of these to adjust the photo and improve it, as well as make the images ready to be used in InDesgn. The tools I found most useful were the smart photo fix, the lasoo and the airbrush tool.

I learnt to use Adobe InDesign to create my magazine for the preliminary and main task. This is what I used to create all my final products. I found it difficult at first as it was all new to me but eventually I learnt how to use it and how to create different things. It was especially good as it allowed you to create a very professional magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

I also used Microsoft Word to type up a lot of my work before it went onto my blog as I found it a lot easy to read and spell check. . I used Microsoft Power Point quite a lot, especially during my research to up load analysis's and results. I found it was a good way to put information together.

I uploaded all documents to slideshare which then allowed me to embed them in to my blog posts. This was very helpful when adding work to my blogs as it gave a different way of presenting information.

All of my magazine coursework was uploaded to blogger. I created an account to upload all my work on to. I found this a good way to all of my work together and was very easy to use. It allowed me to upload images and my PowerPoint's and documents from slideshare, as well as explain in detail each part of my work in each post. Its was all clearly laid out so you could see what each post was about. This also made it easy to go back and edit any previous posts.

Facebook played an important part of my organisation of locations and models all very important part of my magazine. It allowed me to communicate with people easily and get fast feedback.