What I've learnt about
technologies during the process of constructing my product.
Photoshop
While I was already fairly experienced in Photoshop, I did manage to learn a bit about laying out different parts of a magazine in Photoshop as well as picking up a few skills from browsing the internet and watching tutorials on how to create a magazine. I feel that after producing the magazine, I'm definitely a better user of Photoshop as I've accessed and used tools and effects I hadn't before. For example, I airbrushed the image of myself to remove blemishes and make myself look better; airbrushing is common practice in media nowadays, with magazines, newspapers and websites amongst other forms of media all having the stars in their images heavily airbrushed using Photoshop to remove blemishes such as spots or scars and even go as far as to radically change the shape of their bodies to make them look slimmer. While I didn't go that far, I did still use the process to make the images look more professional.