Evaluation question six - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

when i made my media product I have learnt a great deal on the software programme 'Photoshop'. it was very helpful that I also had it on my laptop at home but it was a different version and it took time to get used to it. There was eight main tools i had to use from photoshop to help me create my media product.
The first tool that I learnt to use was very basic and easy, it was the 'brush tool'. I had to use this to colour in sections of my media product and it was very basic to use, I just had to click and move the mouse in the sections I wanted colouring.
Another tool I had to learn to use was the 'Text box tool'. I had to use this to write information on my media product, whether it be a story or a tag line.
The third tool that I used was the 'Eyedrop tool'. This was very helpful because it helped me match the right colours. The way it works is that you click it over a colour on my media product already and this will automatically select this colour, this helps because it stops you from making the mistake of using two different colours that look alike when you only want to use one.
The fourth tool that I found to help me a lot was the magnetic lasso. This tool helped me to cut out images from there backgrounds, for example I needed to cut my model from the background and place it on my front cover, so I used this tool, the most difficult thing about this tool is the fact you need to have a steady hand to cut around images, one mistake and you will have to start all over again.
A simple tool I learnt to use was the 'move tool' which was very simple to use, you would just click and drag an image to move it.
Another simple tool was the 'rectangle tool' this would be used to make colourful boxes to place on my media product.
The 'magic wand tool' is a very big help to me, this is because you would need this to delete a large section of similar colour, all you had to do is click on the section you wanted to delete, then press the 'Del' button and it would be deleted.
The 'rectangular marquee tool' was helpful as it helped me copy and cut only certain sections of my media products and put them elsewhere.

I also found out how to use the website www.blogger.com, this is where I published all my work for my media task. I also learnt how to use hardware such as the scanner, which I used to scan my magazines I was evaluating and also the Mac computers which I was not used to.