The Software: Adobe Photoshop and Quark Xpress
The new technology that I have used while creating my magazine has enabled me to achieve this task by giving me the right tools to create a magazine that looks professional and maybe something that I or my audience might want to read. I would describe it was cutting and pasting different images and texts in my mind and putting them onto an A4 piece of paper, but alot more tricky and alot more technical than that!
I do think that this technology does mean that even amateurs can produce a magazine, as long as they know how to really work the software and the equipment. It can be reasonably professional if you get the gist of everything, but if your a whizz with the camera or a complete Photoshop geek - you can honestly produce something that people would mistake as being professional.
Blogging did help me plan what I wanted my magazine to look like, but it didnt help me learn how to use the software any better. I really did struggle with the software, as it took me so long to do the simplest of things. I did look at a tutorial on Youtube about Photoshop and that helped me a little and I got the basic idea in the end, but Quark Xpress was a complete nightmare for me!
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