EVALUATION: Using technology- creative tools

Technology was a big part of the task as I needed it in order to construct layouts, design ideas and the actual final product. One thing that was key and extended my creative control over both tasks was being able to print my work. This allowed me to physically see my work to annotate and spot mistakes that need adjustments and a copy for my target audience to see so I could survey my design ideas and see what they think too.
During my preliminary task I was able to utilize an interactive whiteboard to aid me in my annotation and explanation to my focus group that I was presenting to. This use of technology allowed me to explain and receive feedback on my work that I was able to note and save a copy the annotated work. For example, there was a problem with a big open space on the front cover of my school/college magazine that was noticed by one of my fellow peers and through the use of the interactive whiteboard I was able to circle the problem so I could later use the annotated copy to see what needs fixing. This extended my creative control as it aided my in the production.
Throughout both tasks desktop publishing software such as Photoshop, for imaging editing, helped me immensely as I was able to do many things with images and layouts such as: cropping, resizing adding effects, changing the lighting and constructing layouts. Photoshop also helped me extend my creative control through it broad availability of options and was software you could truly do anything with. An example of this was in the main task, where I was able to add effects to the two different characters so they looked like they were slightly different to show the thought about design.
Although Photoshop is one example of technology that obstructed my creative process as my knowledge of the application was insufficient as I wasn’t able to sort out a lighting problem on one of the images on the preliminary task. Learning how to use applications such as Photoshop would be propriety if I was to do the task again so I am able to sort out different problems that arise.