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

Before starting this project, I was not very good at editing digitally, but after starting the project I’ve improved a lot. I have had a few problems with my media product especially with the front cover, my photo was not positioned correctly and the text was too close to the edge. I did not know how to reduce the stretched effect but I then cropped the photo so that it would fit.

So I had to use many ranges of programmes to help me, especially Serif Photo plus as I knew how to use it and I had to edit the photos I took to improve them. This was helpful when trying to make the photos stand out and for when I had to sharpen or cut out certain parts of the photo.

The second thing I have learnt in this project is how to use blogger. I have had a Tumblr blog before so this step was easy for me to do. 

The final thing I have learned to do was to use Serif Page Plus. This is software perfect  for making the front cover, double page spread and contents page. It allows you to edit fonts, text and pictures. With this software I made my product. It was quite difficult to use at first because it had many different features but once I learned how make the front cover, making the DPS and contents page was easy. The difficult part of using it was trying to make the paragraphs fit and be in line with each other, without having to be craped together. I was really trying to make use of the spare space so that it is not wasted.