Main Task: Evaluation Q6

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

In terms of photography, I have learnt how big the effects of a low mega-pixel camera can be. For example, when taking pictures I was using a Powershot sx120 IS, which had a low mega pixel count, and resulted in my images looking low quality and a little fuzzy. When I tried to edit the photographs I had taken I noticed that I wasn't getting the desired results, and that transforming and enlarging the photographs caused pixilation. Also, some of the photographs I had taken where too dark. This is because the camera already had a poor flash, and at first I was not thinking about lighting, even though most of my original photographs where taken during the night. On top of this, I used the wrong ISO, which caused even more darkness and a grainy image.

After already selecting my images i began to learn about better camera quality's and how to get better images using the flash efficiently, but I did not learn these techniques in media.

I didn't learn as much while using Photoshop, as I have been familiar with Photoshop for a while now. I am also doing a course in graphic design, which gave me access to a number of Photoshop techniques beforehand. The lasso tools, the pen tool, Gaussian blur, layer strokes color overlay and gradients are just some of the techniques, which I am well acquainted with. Sadly I could not think of a way to use all of these techniques in Photoshop.