The programs I have used whilst making my music magazine was mainly adobe Photoshop and I used Flickr and Blogger for my evaluation of the magazine.

The advantages of using adobe Photoshop is that it was good for changing the effects of the pictures by making them brighter or changing the contrast etc., I also learnt by using this that you can add background colour to any text you want which is good by making it stand out. However the disadvantage by using this programme is that it can get complicated and confusing when trying to do a simple thing for example just a straight line sometimes wouldn’t show and if you want to move one thing on the page you need to find the right layer then move it, which takes up more time than just clicking the thing on the page. When using Photoshop I had to think about my pictures I was going to take for my magazine for example I had to think about the camera angle to what would fit with the page and went with the magazine pages, I used mostly mid shots and long shots. I learnt to consider the background to see what would be easiest to edit and what would go with the text, the shot distance so I know where to crop on the programme. I was pleased with the pictures on my featured article because I edited them to make them sharper and stand out more and went well with the range of pictures I put together on the page.

The advantages of using Flickr is that it looks neat and tidy by still seeing the whole picture and only seeing the boxes when hovering over a part to make it clear what part I was talking about, I learnt how to post my Flickr image onto my blog which is an easy and quick step. However the disadvantages of using Flickr is that if you want to look at the information in the boxes you have to keep hovering over the part which can be annoying and is hard to read all the information because they only stay up for so long, also another disadvantage is that you have to rely on an internet website which can crash or run slowly especially when there are lots of students of the same website at college. http://www.flickr.com/.

The advantages of using Blogger is that you can separate your posts into sections to make it more organised and so you know where to find some information, I learnt while using this programme that you can add images onto your posts to make it look more interesting for the readers so they have a better understanding of the information. However the disadvantages of using this is that it is again a free internet website and the website can crash and you could lose all of your text you was going to post because it might not load back up which means you have to start your work again. http://www.blogger.com/.