Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

My Preliminary Task

Created at the start of the course in September

My Final Products

Research & Planning

How have your skills developed and what benefit has this had on your work?

Skills I had in my preliminary task

• Roughly knew how to use the lasso tool

• Knew how to apply text (however not edited)

• Knew how to add shapes and what sort of shapes were included

• The heeling tools e.g. spot heeling tool

Skills I had when creating my product

• All of the above

• How to use the gradient tool

• How to link different layers together

• How to add effects such as drop shadows to my text

• How to edit photos by e.g. adjusting levels/curves

• By using a tutorial I created neon lines to go behind my double page spread image