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

I have used two new softwares to produce my front cover, contents page and double page spread; these are Photoshop CS4 and InDesign. I had never used the software before so to guide me I used the help tool and the CDs that come with the software.

To produce my front cover, contents page and double page spread I used the software Photoshop. My full production of the front page and contents page were generated on photoshop where as I only generated the elements on photoshop for my double page spread and then made it on InDesign. I used various tools to produce my final pieces which are shown below.

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I used the brightness and contrast adjustment on some of my photos to make their quality look greater.

Once I had created the different elements for my double page spread in photoshop (edited the photo, created the title, made the silence symbol in the bottom left and made the website symbol in the bottom right). I placed all of these elements into InDesign so that I could use columns to enter all of my text. At first I was unsure how to make the text flow from one column to the next so I used the help CD for InDesign to overcome this problem. Once I had all of my columns inserted with the text in them I used Text Wrap so that the writing next to the model flowed around his body; I indented it a few 3 mm so that it was not touching him.

To take my photos I used a standard digital camera and then uploaded them on to the computer.