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

Before constructing this product, I had yet to be introduced to the wonders of photo shop - how dissecting an image could be made one hundred times easier through much simpler tools. I also learnt how to make media effective, for example, when creating such a project as a magazine, it is not necessarily what you enjoy - it is mainly what the potential buyers of the magazine enjoy. Research helped me find out what people within the bracket of the target audience for my  magazine desired, and the technologies I was introduced to within this project helped me to accomplish and meet these desires. Photo shop (CS5) has many features which enabled me to meet the requirements and targets set from the potential market for my magazine. I didn't use many other programs aside from Photo shop when creating my magazine pages, although other programs have been helpful, I used 'Paint'; to take effective, high quality screenshots and post them through my blog. This brings me on to my blog, blogging was a new phenomenon to me at the start of this project, and having never blogged before in my life, the concept of sharing your ideas and thoughts through a 24/7 available system was genius. As I first started blogging, I came to realise the possibilities that it possesses. With features available such as editing previous posts, posting images and videos and commenting on other peoples work and taking ideas you like and don't like to help with the progression of your magazine.