Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This was originally uploaded on Soundcloud, but the website has gone down and no longer works.
The audio is quite fuzzy as my microphone wasn't high quality, so here is a transcript of what I said:

Technology I used when making my product were:

-Memory stick
-iMac
-Laptop
-Pixlr
-Canva
-Nokia camera FZ45
-Nokia Lumia 520
-Picmonkey

These all had varying degrees of success, such as using my Nokia Lumia phone and Picmonkey in the preliminary task. My phone did not have a good quality camera which affected the images on my prelim task as it looked very unprofessional. Furthering that on Picmonkey I used the 'collage' feature that meant everything was in set spaces and it looked less like an actual magazine cover, something I realised I definitely could not take through to the main task. There also weren't many options for editing images how I wanted on Picmonkey, hence me choosing to use Pixlr for the editing of my actual images. As I used a much better camera they were a high quality and I could zoom into them to ensure I edited them to the best they could be, especially when making them transparent because hair is difficult to remove a background from. When constructing my magazine I worked mainly on my laptop at home because I had the most access to it and I know how to use it better. When blogging my process I wanted to be able to use the iMacs at school because the laptops are temperamental but Blogger didn't usually work on them, which was a problem. I learnt to work on technology that wasn't the best but still managed to complete my final product to a high quality. I used a memory stick to save all of my work on as I was then able to transfer it between computers which made me time efficient. Overall from the preliminary task to the final product I learned a lot about what technologies suit me and my work best and I was eventually able to work with them to the best of my ability.