Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Over the course of the project I have had to teach myself, experiment and find out how to use different technologies. This includes how to use adobe Photoshop for image manipulation, learning how to use some of the more obscure tools and effects. These tools are what I used in order to improve my images and make them look much more smooth and professional. I also had to learn how to use an Apple Mac as well because my college had a classroom full of them that I often had to use. I found this to be quite an awkward transition to begin with, but I learnt to use them smoothly and comfortably quite quick.

Within Photoshop one of the main things I had to learn quickly was the many selecting tools. Bellow are examples I had made to show them.

For me the next most important tool I learnt was the gradient tool. Though I had use things like this before, I had to be a lot more technical with how I used it this time. With my front cover I used quite a lot of the gradient tool, though it is not drastically noticeable because I keep the colours relatively similar, or let it fade into the background. 

From these examples you can see the variety the gradient tool has on Photoshop. This was next to me as previously I had only seen the linear gradient tool.This allowed for more variety on my contents page, when making my images' backgrounds.