7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product

Before starting this coursework, I had the chance to undergo a preliminary task. This task consisted of creating a school magazine cover and contents page to help me become more familiar with using programs such as Adobe Photoshop and photo plus before I began my actual coursework task. The creation of my school magazine cover and contents pages was very basic and simple as it was the first time I had used the programs. I first experimented on Adobe Photoshop editing my pictures, I experimented with cutting out the figures, changing the colours of clothes and making the image bolder and more attractive. Photoshop also allowed me to improve to quality of my pictures by adjusting the brightness, contrast and colours. My school magazine cover and contents were very basic and boring compared to my music task. On my school magazine there was no real attractiveness, there was no great variation in colour and only a few images. My music magazine however was extremely appealing, I included a background which helps the magazine achieve its boldness, more text and colour variation and I inserted beter image. My school contents page, I feel is much worse compared to my music contents page. Again there is no variation in colour. When creating my music contents page I wanted to make it as attractive as possible, instead of having the text information in boxes, I inserted it in a line on the side of the page . I also included some more images and a background. I really enjoyed working with Adobe photoshop ; this is where I could bring my magazine together. I first experienced photoshop when undergoing my preliminary task (school magazine), it contained text tools, which allowed you to create the titles, sell lines and puffs for the magazine. It also had many different colours and font styles which i enjoyed experimenting with and developing my creative skills. When looking at my school magazine task compared to my music magazine task, there is a huge different in class and quality. Since completing my preliminary task I have developed many skills using these programs and I believe I have become more creative and artistic, I’m very fond of design and I’m very pleased with the final outcome of my music magazine task. I feel i have made a huge improvement in my work and have learnt alot.