Matthew Drew

Skills1: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

AS Preliminary Task

Cover and Contents Page for a college magazine

Magazine Cover: Adobe Photoshop
Although this was only a short preliminary task, you have used Photoshop for this task and should
have developed your skills sufficiently to be able to produce the front cover of a magazine.

Image manipulation
You will have used Photoshop to manipulate your central image (s) in some way, whether importing,
cropping, or resizing, for example. Outline below the image manipulation skills used during this
project.

For the main image I didnt do much editing of the actual picture. The only thing I did was resizing
the picture top make it fit better on the screen and line it up with the masthead and the original
annotated drawing.



Text manipulation
You should also have used Photoshop to create and manipulate text on your cover: changing the
size, colour or position of the fonts you used, for example. Outline below the text manipulation skills
you used during this project.

I used Photoshop to add text to my front cover and contents page. I made text bigger and smaller
changed the font, the colour and added a stroke to it. I also repositioned the text on my page.



Contents Page: Adobe In-Design
For this task you have learnt how to use in-design to produce and layout a contents page. This will
have involved you developing skills in areas such as structuring the layout of your page using text
boxes and arranging text into columns, and also using the programme to move text and images
around the page.

List below the skills you have developed using in-design in terms of page layout and text and image
manipulation.

Here I learnt how to crop a picture to remove the background which I didnt use in my magazine,
which broke a code of convention. I also learnt how to add text, pictures and shapes etc. I also learnt
some of the advanced features and the techniques used like using shadow on text to make it stand
out and how the different layers are used to move the images and text on the page.

Digital stills camera
You used the digital stills camera to take your photos for this project. List below any photographic
skills you have used in doing this (such as framing, focus etc)


I learnt how to focus the camera and dint learn anything else to do with digital stills
Matthew Drew

Summarise below how pleased you are with the skills you have developed during this project. How
effectively have they allowed you to produce the kind of product you wanted to produce? What
further skills would you like to develop using these programmes?

The skills I have learnt during this project are very useful. I have learnt about new presentation
software and how to use different hardware and software. I have learnt how to use Photoshop from
not knowing anything and I also learnt how to use Prezi (presentation software) and Scribd to upload
my work on to my blog. I have also learnt how to use a blog. And how to upload different file types
including presentations and images.