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Evaluation Question 4: How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?

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Hello, my name is Kelly Lopez, and I will be answering compulsory question 4. The question is “How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online-in this project?" So, I integrated technology in every aspect of my project. I used my iPhone 11 Pro Max to take the pictures for my photoshoots. I learned to play around with the different camera modes and the settings, and one of them was portrait mode. This definitely helped my photos look way more professional than just the regular iPhone camera. On the regular mode – the portrait mode really emphasizes the subject that you’re taking a picture of and it blurs out the background and makes it look more neat. So, I also used my MacBook Air to open up the pictures and to edit them easily as well. As far as software, I used various applications on both my iPhone and on my MacBook; some of them were PicsArt, Colourtone, and the Canva photo editor. Through these applications, I was able to fix the colors, the contrasts, and even the lighting settings of my pictures in order to achieve the specific look I was aiming for. So, each application provided me with new tools to tweak my pictures better and to perfect them until I considered them to be exactly what I was looking for and to leave the perfect cover photo. So, as far as online, I used Blogger to document my process as I created my magazine. So, on Blogger I posted my research, I posted moodboards, and brainstorming, and drafts of every single page of my magazine. So, drafts of my double-page spread of my contents page and my cover page. I also posted updates on Blogspot as my project progressed and as I made more advancements. So, when I used Canva to make the edits and to look at different types of magazines that some people had already made just to see the different conventions and learn more about them. I used the online version of it. So, all throughout my project, technology was the only way that the whole project was possible, and I used it in every single detail of my four-page magazine. 


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