Over the course of creating my final piece
I have learnt a lot about all different types of media interfaces. I have also
been using quite a few new things and programs. For all my work I have been
using an I mac and I feel like I know how to use one a lot better now than I
used to be able to, one of the most important things I have learnt about using
the mac is how to find things a lot easier, I have enjoyed the change from the
normal windows computers that are used in school. A program that I had never touched
before was photo shop and now I feel a lot more comfortable using the program.
I have mainly been self taught as I feel that the best way for me to learn on
computers, however when needed I have asked peers and teachers and in some
cases where they wouldn’t know the answer I have used YouTube to see how other
people have done what I want doing. In Photoshop I have been using different
tools to make my final piece look a lot better. I can remember that I had to
edit the skin of my artist a little as he had a pimple on his left cheek I did
this by using the replacement tool and just making the spot to his normal skin
colour. Also for my final front cover picture I didn’t like the lighting as it
seemed to be dark over my artist so I ended up changing the brightness and
contrast and was able to come out with a pretty even picture of the brightness.
I also learnt how to use different layers and what they did; this was a new
step for me, as I needed to learn about how to make it look perfect. Over the course I made quiet a few mistakes
in photo shop but I was able to fix them as I began to learn more about them.
When I was taking my photos I had four
lamps that I had the option to use, for my different shots I would use
different lighting. When I wanted a shadow effect I would turn the main lights
of the room off and only use one or two lights depending on where I wanted the
shadow to go. I would use different lighting to make the same image have looked
different to create different effects. Some of my photos I used natural
lighting and went outside. I just used an old red brick wall as my background
and a tattered blue door as it fitted n with the genre as some of my target
audience mentioned that they liked visiting abandoned buildings.
Another thing I have used a lot more of is
blogger, I have rarely used blogger in the past only at the start of this
school year was I introduced to it. I have learnt a lot about blogger during
the beginning I was using blogger to write everything up, but I soon found that
it was quite slow and it didn’t pick up on any missing punctuation and rarely
corrected my words/ gave me options too. Therefore I have used Microsoft word
to write everything up because I have had a lot of experience with it in the
past and I knew it was very good at picking up on spelling mistakes. I have
found blogger to be frustrating at times as it wasn’t very easy to do things
but now I am use to it and I enjoy it a lot more than I used too, considering I
would have never thought I would do blogging.
