Q6

The specific software I used to manipulate, change and tweak my pictures was Adobe Photoshop Elements, the software is easy to use but because of this it is pretty basic because I am used to using CS3 the majority of facilities are not available such as masking and using folders to group images. As I was used to Photoshop I took to the editing really easily and was also helping friends how to use it. It was manageable to edit the pictures but took more time that it normally would with CS3. The way to change the picture setting of a picture through layers is limited as well such as using soft colour and overlay so when changing colours I had to use the hue setting and then make the colour slightly transparent to around 90-95% so that the colour is not effected but not as strong.

The software used for the contents page and double page spread was Quark Xpress and I was not familiar with this software I took to it very easily and managed to get used to the tools such as import picture, cropping, creating pull quotes and using a background to the pull quote making it stand out by filling the in background of the text box. Also I used the image box and text box to import coloured backgrounds and putting them to the back so everything falls on top of that making it a background. Using drop letters as well worked well and I did this by highlighting the start letter, selecting style and then formatting and clicking on the drop letter box so the letter was made bigger at the bottom.

To process my work for others to see I used Web 2.o Blogs which is a personal website for my work for me to publish online so it can be looked at and I can access the text format from computer to computer at college and at home so I could keep posted the work. Blogging is ok but there is not many themes and time has to be taken to get a theme with appropriate pictures and where the work is placed on the screen without confusion takes some time but there are some good looking themes on the websites.