Print Audit

AS Media Production

Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before?

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features		X
Shutter Speed	X		I used this at the beginning of the year when I was learning all about the features. This feature is quite useful as it allowed me to capture moving images.
Aperture control		X
ISO Control		X
A tripod	X		I used this at the beginning of the year, as well as when I came back to help out with opening evening. This is very useful as it allows you to capture the image straight, instead of you trying to make it look straight. I also found out how to set it up.
		X
Self timer facility		X
Light meter	X		I used this to get the perfect light setting, this is very useful as it automatically sets the lighting for you.
Composition grids		X

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before?

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you aver used Photoshop ever before?	X		I briefly used Photoshop in my old school to design a poster for my art project, I only really used it a couple of time so I wasn’t that familiar with the software.
Text control	X		I used text control for my final product in which I used quite a bit, I did this because I designed a magazine and a double page spread so this allowed me to make my product look like a professional magazine in terms of the way my text was laid out.
Filters		X
Brushes		X
Layers	X		I used layers when I was working on my magazine front cover; this allowed me to have as many different layers so that I could edit them and add or take away stuff. I thought this was quite effective as it allowed me to hide things that I completed, which made it easier for me know what I had left to do.
Opacity control	X		I used this for my final product. I used this because one of the shapes H had made was cover my photo, so I changed the opacity of it so that I could still see the image underneath. I think this effect worked quite well as it allowed me someone to write as well as allowing me to show the image underneath.
Shape creation	X		I used this to create shapes for my magazine. I wanted to create some shapes which were on the front of a football magazine; this allowed me to make my own up in a football format. I also used this to create my banners, and to create a frame-like image for my double page spread.
Brightness and contrast control		X
Gradients		X
Load selection features		X
Feathering		X
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control	X		I used this on my double page spread because when I put my front cover in, the pixels went blurry, so by using the resolution control it allowed me to get rid of the blurriness. This was quite effective as it allowed you to read my magazine article.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		X
Cropping tool	X		I used this to crop the images I needed, without having any other imagery that I didn’t need. This was quite effective as it made it look tidier and it saved me quite a bit of time.
Clone tool	X		I used the clone tool in some of my magazine cover, this was to make the background all of the same colour. I quite liked using this tool, and it was quite simple to use. This worked quite effectively as it made it look neat as well as saving me time from copying and pasting.
Retouch tool		X