Your LIfe Your Times skills development 2014

Over the past few months I have various new skills as part of my production of my double page spread and front cover. First of these is in the double page spread processing using InDesign, I have learnt how to create documents of the similar size to the one I was using as a guild, I have also learnt how to use text wrap as seen in the magazine above where i have wrapped where an eventual image will be and have the text around them and also about quote inserts.

Another skill i have making sure the column guild are right and that they fit with my magazine template, another skill i have gained from this is how to place objects in the boxes and pass text from one text ox to the next. In righting my article I have learnt various article writing skills, these being Semantic field, collegial language such as compression words, slang ect. Another skill i have learnt in this is narative voice, 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

In Photoshop i have learn a number of skill regarding making my front cover, i have learnt how to install fonts that I would like to use, another thing that I learnt in photoshop was how to use button sells lines using the shape tool and also adding rulers to my document.Also, in Photoshop i have learnt photo editing skills such as cross processing, colour correction, the burn and dodge tool and the healing brush. In the development stages of my products I have also learnt various photography skill starting with the T-stance, and leading to learning things such as studio lighting (gel lights and honeycomb), shutter speed technique and how to add backdrops with lighting.