What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (draft)

camera:
using a digital SLR Nikon D3200 e.g. focus, zoom, model placement, correct lighting, using the tripod to my advantage and taking photos without the tripod to get lower shots and different angles, using the white screen.

photoshop:
free transform, magic wand tool, lasso tool, path tool, magnetic lasso, rectangle tool, rasterizing images, fill tool, pencil tool.

Gimp (from home):
path tool, scale tool

Blogger: making posts as a more convenient way to get my work out seeing as once it's on my blog i can't lose it. it also means i can hand it straight in from home which makes my work more accessible.

Scribd:
a good and convenient way to get word documents on my blog through pasting the embed code into Blogger's HTML.

Animoto:
how to present a magazine pitch in a more exciting way through pictures and text to music that fits the genre of magazine which gives an appropriate atmosphere.