Evaluation Question 6

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

This i the recommended process that should be used when it comes to creating a music magazine as this is what the major music magazines have stuck to.

The print process of these magazines would be very similar to those that are in the market these days. This way the magazine can be of the same quality as big named brands and would sell in vast amounts. Then you will have to select a firm to join with.Magazine Publisher understands one of the most important decisions made by a publisher is selecting their printing partner. When creating a magazine, these 3 factors should be taken into account. Time-With deadlines, print schedules, and advertisers late submissions - days cut off the finishing cycle can make a great final impact. Money- Every pound saved on pre-press, printing, and mailing is profit in your corporate account. Quality- Magazine Publisher offers quality Newsstand style (Heat set web) magazine print options.

Then you will need to get a Print Rep. Your assigned Print Rep will contact or visit you introducing themselves and give you an overview of the press facilities.The Print Rep will become your one-on-one permanent sales contact and can service all your publication needs as your title evolves. Then you have to prepare and submit your digital files for print. This is critical factor in preparing a quality digital file that is in hi-resolution format that will deliver a quality magazine publication. It is recommended that you are clear on the files preparation before you build your magazine layout which can avoid any possible delays in print file submission. The major types of programmes that re generally submitted in magazine layouts are: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe in-Design, Quark express and Hi-Res PDF's.

Then you will have to approve of colour proofs. This is where everything is read over and proof read so that no mistakes are there for when it is ready to be sent off to the printers. Also colours would be checked to see if they all go well together and just to check whether everything in general is ready to be printed. A customer Serive rep will be assigned. They will be there to track and service your publication from the arrival of digital files through the print and bindery cycle preparing all the final shipping and mailing documents for your magazine.

Then you come to the most important part of the process, which is the printing. Magazine Publisher's technical expertise and commitment to innovation ensures your access to the latest technologies in magazine production and printing. High speed, full web color offset presses produce your title on printing systems that expand publications flexibility and deliver quality finished magazine titles often amazingly fast. This way you can get the best of what your magazine has to offer to the public to read and enjoy. Then it is time to send off your magazine all over the country so that the shops can distribute them to customers. This whole process would take about 10 days, depending on what technology and equipment that is available to the publisher.

From this whole process i feel i have learnt quite alot of what actually happens when magazines are processed. I didnt know that there was so much to do with creating it, but since i started, i have picked up all of these techniques and feel i would be able to create one myself if i had the right equipment.

I have also realised that technology has alot to do with how they are created because it involves alot of work with computes and different types of programmes used to manipulate images and make different layouts.

In my two images above of people are the pictures that i started off with and what my final piece was. I coudnt have done this without all the technology that i had to manipulate images and just create a general look to make the magazine look realistic.

The technolgy used is very hard to use when you are not used to it, but when you pick it up and start learning more and more and then know where all the key tools ae then it is very easy to do. For a beginner a front page could take weeks, but for someone with a lot of experience, it coul just take a couple of days, just sorting out where you want everything to make it look as best as possible is the toughest part of creating it.

Using photoshop is very easy for me now, i can use the smudge tool, spot healing brush, free transform, red eye, etc. All very easily, this is due to practice and watching many help videos which are posted on youtube. Also In-Design i have picked up, not as much as Photoshop, because i have spent alot longer on Photoshop, but still i can do things on In-Design that i didnt think that i would pick up at the start of the year.