Internet:
When researching I found a few new magazines that I wasn’t familiar with and it was interesting to look at their websites and compare them to their magazines. I also looked for a lot of covers online to find conventions and dafont was very useful for collecting different fonts. I found that you could get barcodes as well as other symbols and interesting fonts on dafont and really took advantage of this site to make my magazine unique.
Photography and Editing:
When taking the photos for my magazine with my digital camera, I tried out the different settings, using the portrait feature to focus on the face as well as suppressing the flash so a natural look could be created. I used the grid for the rule of thirds so it was easier to compose the shot and frame my shots better.
When editing my photos, I learnt that you could blur out the background if you cut around the figure and paste a copy into a new layer and then apply a blur to the original layer. To smooth the lines I used the rubber to get close to the figure and make it less messy. There were also different ways of saving the photos. By saving them in BMP (the better quality) you couldn't upload them onto the blog or other areas of the internet. However, by saving them as a JPEG or GIF, you are able to upload on the internet, but the quality is reduced.
Publisher:
I hadn't used publisher much before this task so wasn't very familiar with it. I found it quite easy placing the images on the page and learnt how to make wordart look less like wordart but more like a font on a magazine. I learnt how to use the tool that makes your images transparent, and as I was overlapping my images over the side, this was useful in seeing where the outline was. It was useful to creating more pages to track the process of creating the magazine.
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