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

The things that I have learnt about the technology process of programmes like Photo shop and Fireworks, is that they can be used to easily manipulate an image in a certain way that would look much more appealing than what it would have originally compared to the raw image that it previously was. Photo shop consists of many filters that give certain effects that are used on many magazines. A filter that is used majority of the time is Surface Blur, this works as an air brushing effect. This effect is used on many magazines to edit models, celebrities etc. This then makes the image of the person look flawless, this portrays an image to the audience which then makes them aspire to be just like them.

There are varieties of filters that you would be able to use in various magazines. The surface blur effect can be reversed; you can blur the background for example to make the image the focal point. By hardening the brush you then make the blur extra hard so that there is an automatic focal point of an image. Another technique for photo shop that I have used was colour replacement. It’s when you chose a colour from the image from the palette to change the colour of a different object that may be in the image. This is what music editors may use to brighten and image, or manipulate it in a way to give a certain effect.

Another way, in which photo shop allows you to manipulate an image, is by cropping and giving the previous background a transparent background. I had done this for the image bellow, with the model in jump pose. I had cut all the way around the model, but where the models hair was very curly I had cut a section of her pony tail off, and placed it in a new layer to make it look as if it was in a bun, I had also done this to make her hair look a lot neater as she is suppose to be a dancer and they are usually very presentable. After I had done this, I grouped the picture and put it on a gradient background. This then formed a whole new image. I straightened up the dancers pose, from the raw image as at first she was at a lean. The way in which I had rotated the dancer/model on photo shop is by using the straighten tool, and drawing the line in the direction that I had wanted it to go on.