Technical Skills (Online)

Here are some technical skills I have acquired during this project.

I have learned how to use CamScanner to take better quality pictures of my magazine pages.

This application is fairly simple to use and here are the steps:

1. Take a picture using the app.

2. Make sure that the borders of the page(s) are lined up so the image quality is better.

3. Choose a filter (I default to the filter “Lighten”).

4. Get the finished product!

Without CamScanner:

After CamScanner:

Chat GPT:

I have used the Chat GPT tool in order to generate some ideas for this project (Disclaimer: I only used it for pointers and tips, not directly copy pasting from it!). Here are the steps for how I did it.

1. Open the Chat GPT website (https://chat.openai.com/)

2. Type what you are trying to find in the text box.

3. The A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) should generate an answer for you.

Canva:

I used canva to make my entire magazine! Here is what I learnt to do throughout the process of using it:

How to set up margins and columns?

Open the page you want to use!

Click onto file, view settings and then add guides.

Choose the option to customize the guides.

Next, click out of that view and drag the margin from the top of the screen.

And you’re done!

But if you want to be extra safe there’s one more step and that is to lock the margins and guides so they won’t move around!

Reflection:

Making this technical skills post was great as I got to track the progress of how I navigated through the different obstacles to achieve the best results for my project’s blogger posts. I think that reflecting on how I solved the problems and putting a step-by-step will also help me just in case I forget how to do certain things in the future.