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

Before I started this task I had never used Photoshop and I soon got to grips with it. I started off very timid and didn’t experiment with different tools; instead I just stuck to the basics of what I was taught during my Photoshop tutorial. After practise I did look at other ways to edit images to create different effects. Also I looked for shortcuts in the process as I didn’t want to spend ages and ages cropping something if I could do it in 3 easy steps. The more time I spent working on Photoshop the more I got to grips with its different features. I look on www.youtube.com for tutorials for advanced editing but when it actually came to it, I didn’t need anything from it. I learnt that you didn’t need to be and expert at it or need to use the most advanced techniques to get good quality images because the basics will get you to where you want to. So from no experience what so ever, I can now crop, resize, reshape, filter, add effects to images and text, alter colour, saturation and depth of images and I understand the use of layers. This simple but effect strategies aided me 100%