There were a wide variety of technologies that I used, including both hnd looked at what they the 'Mise-en-scene'. Under this contains, clothing, posture, gesture etc. I Looked at all these things and tried to integrate that onto my own models. For the first photoshoot, I used a Samsung ES17 Inteligent LCD which is a very light digital camera. The advantages of using these camera was that it was very portable, very light and also efficient.
For my second photoshoot, I decided that I would use a more professional camera rather than the previous camera that I used. The Lumix 12.1 Megapixel camera, gave me a better quality image. It took me quite a lot of practice to get used to using this camera, as I was much more used to using the first camera, the more lightweight of the two. An advantage of the Lumix G1, allowed me to focus on certain images as it had an inbuilt auto focus lens, giving the focused image better quality. Another advantage of this camera is that it is very portable and light to carry around with you.
Computers were another source of hardware that I used. Although I mostly made use of the softwares on the computers. In the production of my magazine, I was fortunate enough to use two computers. The first of the computers was my Laptop, a HP G61-401SA with a Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. The second computer was used in school, this was an Apple iMac computer which had the all the softwares that I would be using. At first, I found it very hard to use the iMac as I am not a very big fan of Apple operating systems but as time went on I became accustomed to it. I still prefer my own computer though as I feel more free in terms of computer use.
In the creation of my magazine, there were several programs and softwares that I used. This includes, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and InDesign CS4. These two programs are proffessional softwares. Software such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are what they low level softwares, as most people who own a computer know how to use these softwares. Firefox, Safari and Internet explorer are software which allow us to access websites such as blogger and youtube. I am going to focus my attention fully on bothAdobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
Photoshop and Adobe InDesign were the main technologies I used to create my magazine. I am fairly new to both these technologies so in the beginning I did struggle using them for the very first time. With much practice I was able to use both of them successfully to create two magazine front covers, contents pages and one double page spread.
I have used Adobe Photoshop to edit and re-design my images to create my magazine. I used photoshop to create both my magazines front cover and contents page. InDesign allows me to put together a finished product such a double page spread. Photoshop has allowed me remove any facial impairments on any of my models, making them look almost perfect. This is something that every magazine designer takes into account when making a magazine. My front cover image is in a black and white effect. As you can see, this is how I have applied the black and white effect to my image. Their were various different alterations I could have made to my images, and the black and white effect was one of them I used. The process of turning my image black and white, I needed to click image on the toolbar. From there I had to go to click on the adjustments. Under adjustments, their were several options I could have taken. The option I decided to click on was the black and white feature. Before doing this, I did try out several other options such as the desaturate tool. This allowed me to turn the image black and white with the option of restoring some of the color using the history brush. One of the other options I used was the Hue/Saturation tool, which allowed me to turn everything back to its original color.
I found that using Adobe InDesign, was going to be very difficult as I had already become accustomed to using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Indesign is mainly using for written content on a magazine, for example the double page spread, which has the most written content on all magazines. The ways in which I became comfortable in using this software, was by playing around with the different tools. One of the features I used in particular was the text wrap feature. This allowed me to properly make use of the space on my double page spread. This is what many music magazines do to give it a sense of realism. What the text wrap actually does is allows you to fit your written content around an image, rather than trying to squeeze the written content on to your spread. As you can see, the album cover on the bottom right hand side of the page has some written content around it. 
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