Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This project allowed me to recognise my strengths and weaknesses, and also the different opportunities I was fortunate enough to come across:

Technologies are used throughout the magazine industry, from the use of Adobe’s InDesign to their illustrator; Adobe is a leading company which provides all of the different software suitable for all different uses. InDesign is perfect to be used for creating magazines because it is quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. Also, it has guidelines which allow you to ensure the elements are placed in their correct places. Other than InDesign, Photoshop is a very popular software for magazine industries to alter their photos to change and improve the model’s appearance. 

For my preliminary task, I have used InDesign for my front cover, InDesign was a stranger to me and no matter how much I'm using it to try and get familiar to it, it was still very difficult for me. Therefore I decided to switch to using the trusty Photoshop for my contents page as I was more confident with the programme that I have been using for years. I decided to use Photoshop instead of any other technologies that I'm also familiar with, such as Microsoft word and power-point because I find Photoshop more professional than others and it is being used in the magazine industry by publishers too.