Final skills audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:Hannah Rainbow Tutor group: 1.41 Date:

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		When i did my composition photos and also my magazine photos
Shutter Speed	X		When taking blog photos for example the torch pictures
Aperture control	X		When i changed the depth in field on the photos
ISO Control	X		I changed the light that has been let through the lense to lighten the photos
A tripod		X

External flash	X		I have used this on blog photos to lighten them up
Self timer facility	X		I have used this on my blog images so you can have movement in the images
Light meter	X		I have used this in my magazine pictures
Composition grids	X		I have used these on the camera so you can see the rule of thirds

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
Text control	X		I have used these when doing blog photos and also when making my magazine
Filters	X		I have put filters on some of my blog developments and magazine front cover to lighten up the alcohol bottle, i have also used them in art
Brushes	X		I have used these on blog developments such as the christmas card
Layers	X		I have used these on my magazine front cover to add different things onto it and also to make each individual thing changeable, i have also used them in art to layer different pictures on top of each other

Opacity control	X		I have done this in art to make a photo behind another one visable so it looks unique
Shape creation	X		I have done this when i have made splashes on my front cover, this was done so it looks professional
Brightness and contrast control	X		I have used these on blog photos and also my front cover, when i changed the alcohol bottle to make it brighter
Gradients		X
Load selection features	X		On my magazine to make my model at the front of the magazine
Feathering		X
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control			I set my resolution picture to 300 pixels per inch to have a high resolution for my front cover

Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	X		To draw around the alcohol bottle so i could make it brighter, i have also used it on some of my blog photos
Cropping tool	X		i have used these in blog photos to crop something out of the corner that i did not want
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool	X		I have used these on blog photos such as the zoe one to get rid of blemishes so i used the spot healing tool, also i have used this on my front cover.
Other skills Margin guides downloading fonts Stroke tool			I have also used these to edit my front cover of my magazine futher to make it look better.

In Design Skills

Which of the following features of In Design have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you ever used In design ever before?	X		I have used this when making my practice magazine, i also used this when i made my double page spread for my magazine
Margin and column guide creation	X		I have used this when making my double page spread so i know where my text will go, i had 3 columns so i knew that it would flow
Inserting an image ID	X		I have inserted an image when making my magazine DPS, i have also done this on my practice magazine, i had to export the image from photoshop then place it into in design
Resizing images in ID	X		I have done this so it will fit into my double page spread, the photos are usually large so you have to cut it down

Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	X		I have done this on my double page spread when i changed the sizes on my font, i have also done this on my practice magazine. I also enlarged the quotation in my DPS.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		X
Text flow creation	X		I have done this so the text links together through the columns so it all fits together.
Using transparent imagery in ID		X
Shape/line creation In design	X		In my DPS i have used lines to make it look professional, i took the layout from vogue magazine which had lines in it so i replicated it
Exporting to PDF from In-design	X		I have done this when i had to upload my magazine to moodle, i had to upload both my front cover and DPS
Text Wrap	X		I have used this to make my text larger and also so the other text would fit round the quotation

Other Skills

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