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

I have used a lot of different technologies during the process of constructing my product. One of the technologies that I have used a lot is Photoshop. I used photoshop to produce my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread. I feel like I have progressed my photoshop skills as I am now able to use tools that I couldn't before such as the spot healing tool, the outer glow tool and various other tools.
I have also used Blogger in order to showcase my work that I have produced including my product. I learned that Blogger is simple and easy to use as all you need to do it give your post a title and then add your work to it. I also used YouTube in order to post my focus group. This was also very simple to use as I already had a YouTube account so all i needed to do was record the video and upload it on my account. I also had to use a camera in order to record my focus group video. The camera that i used was a Canon EOS 1200d. I used this camera as it is a very high quality camera and will make my images and magazine look professional. By ensuring that my magazine looks more professional, the quality of my magazine will be improved. This means that my target audience will buy my magazine as it is of a high quality. The camera that I chose is also a camera that the photographers at NME, Q, and Kerrang! may use therefore my quality of image will be the same as those very successful magazines.
As well as my camera quality, I also had to ensure that the lighting on my images was of a good standard/quality. To ensure that the lighting in my images was professional, I used the three-point lighting plan. This consists of placing one light towards the left, one towards the right and one directly in the middle. This makes sure that the lighting is even and there is no shadow on the image. Below are examples of test shots that I took for my planning:

The lighting on these images is bad as there is a shadow on the left side of my models face. I leaned from carrying out these test shots that I would need to use the three-point lighting plan on my main image shots. I also used Microsoft Office as i used Publisher and PowerPoint. i used these programme's to carry out my planning and research. Before performing my planning and research I was already very experienced in using these programmes so I didn't really learn anything else. The last piece of technology that i used during this task is Prezi. I used this to present my evaluation in a different format to powerpoint. Before this task I had previously not used Prezi so I had to learn all of the skills and how to use it.