I have used photoshop within the creation of my product, and it has been the main focus of the production - most of my product has been created with photoshop. I have learnt to edit photos within photoshop so that they look better suited to a magazine. The margins I was able to create within photoshop enabled me to create a better-looking, more in-line magazine, particularly with my double page spread and when it came to making sure the words on the front cover did not run into the photo. Photoshop was a very user-friendly technology once I had grown accustomed to it and had experimented, as I was able to very easily because of Photoshop, with what I wanted my product to look like.
InDesign is another product, similar to Photoshop, used by many professional companies in the creation of their media product. I used InDesign on my double page spread, as it was easier to add conventions
SurveyMonkey was used in the research stages of the product - I used it to explore what my target audience wanted; even who my target audience were in the first place. It was very useful when it came to inspiration, and whenever I was stuck with what to do at a certain point, I could turn back to the results to get a feel of what my audience would want and expect.
Flipsnack was a wonderful product to use if I needed to move a word document file onto the blog but didn’t want or need to paste it all as text, which would have ruined the formatting. I could convert these files into PDF files to upload them to Blogger, which created an interactive flipbook online. Another online product that I used to look over results from research and evaluations was slideshare, an online slideshow product that I could upload to Blogger easily.
I’ve used the product Prezi to create interactive powerpoints that have helped me gather information from my research, and also to evaluate my products in a different, more interesting format, in which it is easy to incorporate images into these evaluations and research gatherings.
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