By Giulia Malacrida

Throughout constructing my magazine, ‘Pindie’ I have developed general IT skills and how to use Photoshop

properly, prior to this task I had no idea on how to create layers, cut out an image or even use the program, but after

this task I am comfortable with using the program and it has taught me a lot.

I have become more confident in cutting images out since I discovered the magnetic lasso tool, and the feathering tool, which smooth’s and perfects fine and slight any small faults you may have. The ability to change the colourings and effects on a picture is great, it helps the picture gain quality and can change some features dramatically, like

hair colour, skin colour and even make-up.

During the process of my magazine I had learn to use softwares such as Wordpress, Animoto,

Microsoft Publisher and Slide-share, learning how to use these programs have now changed the way

I portray things, for example when doing a presentation etc.

I feel I have gained a lot of knowledge by being introduced to these programs, out of them all, initially, Photoshop was the one I was most wary about, as I had

never used it before, aspects I found in Photoshop which were always helpful were converting pictures to black

and white, the crop tool and erasing the background of an image, playing around with the colourings helped me

decide my final colour scheme.

Learning how to use programs such as Slidesharemade it much easier for me to share my work on my

blog, as it’s so easy to use and helps with the presentation side of the work, the tools on Animotoare also very helpful, I had previously used this but I

really like how it turns a boring slideshow, into a music accompanied presentation within minutes, this really helped me when trying to initialise my ideas in

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