The only things I used to get my final pages were a camera and a Mac OS X. The software- desktop publishing technologies- were Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the front cover and contents page, and Adobe Indesign for the double-page spread. All of my work I recorded on Blogger.
I had no previous knowledge or experience of using these programs so all of the skills I now possess are from online tutorials, my teacher's lessons and experimenting with my preliminary task.
A few of the skills I have learnt on Photoshop are how to alter the brightness/contrast of a photograph, how to use layers to my advantage- without layers I wouldn't have been able to create either my front cover or my contents page, edit fonts, use filters, use the magnet lasso tool to select only the part of a layer I wish to use, use red eye tool to edit the eyes, use the burn smudge and blur tool effectively.
On Indesign I have learnt how to wrap text around a photograph effectively, put text on a path, divide the text into columns and make one text box link to another.
Learning to use Blogger has been such a good experience for me as I really have enjoyed uploading my work and allowing my peers to comment on it. It made it easier to communicate as they could quickly type in their feedback to my final front cover which meant that they were more willing to critique it as it is less time consuming than handwriting a response, and I was pleased as I physically couldn't lose the feedback as it was saved online.
I learnt how to blog, how to upload JPEGs and PDFs, how to comment on other blogs, how to follow a blog, how to upload links onto my blog contents and how to label my posts correctly.
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