Before AS media, I only used blogs to read articles written upon them but never to write my own. My experience with using Blogspot/Blogger has taught me how to, not only, compile all my research, development and evaluation in one highly accessible location, but about the effectiveness of presentation and layout. I used the label tool on the blog in order to bind all my posts together in topic, regardless of post and editing dates.
I have learnt a great deal in respect to Photoshop and Indesign, skills that I believe to be invaluable. Within Indesign, I learnt a lot about placement, the use of text boxes and playing fonts for desired effects, swatches, levels, contrasts and effects like sharpen and guassian blur and tools like the rectangle tool. Using my research into codes and conventions and previous publications, both print and online, I found inspiration for layout, types of images used and tone and register of the feature. Using Photoshop, I learnt the power of using tools such as the blemish, spot healing and patch tools to touch up and edit my images used. I learnt how to resize images and how to optimise the quality, in order to increase the clarity and sharpness in a smaller image (i.e. saving the image at 200dpi).
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