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

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

 I have learnt how to confidently use lots of new websites that I would normally not have even heard of and they have been very helpful during this course and may prove useful again in the future. Some of the websites that I have used are Blogger which is used to present our work on I think this is good because it gives students a lot more flexabilty with doing and handing in their work.Blogger is also a way to nicely present your work to the world where it can get recognised, my page has way more views than I thought it woud. Survey monkey was an easy way to ask questions to a lot of people, I can see this being useful again someday. Prezi is a good way of presenting things and is a lot more inrteresting than the standard power point presentaton because between each “Slide” you can zoom in to images that could not be seen otherwise or tou can spin into it and theres probably a lot more. You may be thinking “powerpoint has transitions too” this is true but prezi just does it so much better and looks better too.

Another programme that I have learnt to use during college is photoshop, before college I had never used it and now I use it art least twice a week for both college work and for fun. Photoshop can be used to do almost anything you can think of realting to text or imagery. Photoshop has so many tools my favorite one is probably the magic wand tool which I use to cut crappy backgrounds out of images and put a better one in.During the photoshoots I also learnt about lighting and got to use some of the lights, they were each used to light a certain area of the image or it could give different looks to the image by only lightingcertain sides one of the looks that can be made is called the “noir” look which would be a referance to the genre film noir.

To create the silhouette looking image on the right side of my contents page I used the selection tool which is located under the same area as the magic wand tool and selected the areas of the original image I wanted which were all the black parts of the suit and his head and hands. While they are selected I used the paintbrush which only worked in the selected areas. Then I did the same for the white areas.