Apple Mac: I had only vaguely used a mac before being asked to create a magazine on one. I found it quite easy to use and I liked being able to drag things across. The ease of the documents to stole and view files was really good i thought, especially when tranferring images across onto Photoshop for example.
The Program I used to actually construct my magazine was InDesign. I found it really difficult to use when I first started out, opting to use Microsoft Publisher for my first magazine instead. I still find it difficult but as time went on I grew more familiar with the tools offered. I liked how you could layer things and swap them around with ease and how you can change pretty much anything. I like how you can resize the images without them blurring and pull them into basically any shape you like. Some things still confuse me on Indesign but i managed to create my pages to the standard i wanted them to be.
The Program i used to edit my images was Photoshop. I preferred using this to Indesign because i had a bit more experience using it in my other lessons and such. Using this program, I edited my images to the high standard you expect to see on magazine covers. I brightened it up, changed the background colour whilst keeping the same texture and changed some of the flaws on my models - hair for example and skin blemishes.
Other programs I used whilst making my magazine were the website www.flickr.com and its editing program 'Picnic'. I found that a very useful place to store my images so that i could edit them at home as well as at school and because it is a site that is familiar to me. I used www.Photobucket.com to store more images and create the slideshows seen on my blog. using that, i transferred the slideshows to Blogger with ease.
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