Final skills audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:       Joe Lodge                  Tutor group: 1.17               Date:  28.4.14

Photographic Skills

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	X		When taking photos in the studio for my unit 3 project, to a basic level
Shutter Speed	X		When working outside we looked at different shutter speeds and what effects they had. Medium level
Aperture control	X		Looking at how much light we let into the photos to a basic level.
ISO Control		X
A tripod	X		Used panning and tilt to avoid motion blur and get the clearest photos.
External flash	X		In the studio I used the external flash for maximum effect and sharpness of the photos.
Self timer facility	X		Used it for a photo I want to be in myself
Light meter		X
Composition grids		X

After finishing my unit 3 project I have learnt many different aspects of taking photos as I had to do a photo shoot in the studio.

Photoshop Skills

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Text control	X		Changed the text size and fonts in my unit 3 project
Filters		X
Brushes	X		Tried different brushes and found which brush worked well in what area.
Layers	X		Used different layers to stop complicating different texts on the front cover
Opacity control		X
Shape creation	X		Created a circle for my sell line on front cover
Brightness and contrast control	X		Changed the brightness of my magazine front cover. Basic level
Gradients	X		Changed the tilt on some sell lines on my unit 3 project
Load selection features		X
Feathering		X
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control	X		Changed the resolution from 19 to 300 as this was the best possible quality I could achieve while making my unit 3 magazine front cover
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		X
Cropping tool	X		When I had images that needed areas cropping out because they weren’t needed. On my front cover I had taken the photo unprofessionally and it included a bit of background that wasn’t in the shoot so I had to trim it out.
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool		X
Other skills	X		One other skill I used were placing shadow on the header, this created a mysterious effect and gave the magazine its genre. I also think this made it look more professional.

My skills are quite basic on photoshop although over the year I have expanded my knowledge of the editing i can do on the program. 

In Design Skills

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you ever used In design ever before?		X
Margin and column guide creation	X		I have used this skill when setting out the layout for my DPS on my unit 3 project. I had 3 columns on each page. For the margin I measured out the magazine I was getting ideas from and copied that.
Inserting an image ID	X		When inserting an image into ID I set out a box where I wanted to place the image.
Resizing images in ID	X		When I placed the images into ID they were often too large for the box I had created. To resize them I found that I stretched them when shrinking them to fit to scale to I held down shift and this avoided stretching the pictures.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	X		When I pasted the text into my DPS for my magazine I had too much so had to make it smaller so it would fit.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading	X		As I wanted my project to look as professional as possible on my article I used kerning as that’s what magazines use on articles.
Text flow creation		X
Using transparent imagery in ID	X		I used transparent imagery when I dragged the graph paper background over the DPS
Shape/line creation In design		X
Exporting to PDF from In-design	X		When I had to put my DPS and front cover together and export it so it could be reviewed.
Text Wrap	X		When I had to move text boxes to make them fit onto the page easier.
Other Skills