Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From the beginning of the year, it was a time where we could get used to the software and understand the idea of media studies. The preliminary task was our beginner’s task for creating a magazine cover and contents page. Since I didn’t know how to make a detailed and creative magazine, my first draft of the cover and contents page were at a low standard. For the preliminary task, we were allowed to use secondary source picture from the Internet and modify them. What I did was merge three images together for my cover page and two images together for the contents page. This technique came very handy for my future final product. The blur tool was one of the main tools I used to merge the images together. When one image looked to sharp and stood out more then the other, I blurred the edges to balance the look of the resolution between all the images. Since I had to research what many magazines looked like and what they featured, practicing with different features and techniques was a prime objective for me. Since I had practiced this for my preliminary task, the final product includes a lot more features and ideas because of this practice. In conclusion of my journey from beginning to end, I feel like ill be able to create better things in Photoshop and other methods I used.