Print Skills Evaluation Table

AS Media Production

Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Adam Baxter           Tutor group: 2.28       Date:13 April 2011

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	X		I used this feature in most, if not all of the photo’s I took throughout the course once i had learnt how to use this feature.
Shutter Speed	X		I used this feature of the camera when i was taking photographs of moving objects and people, I used this technique or feature for the shutter speed photos i took on my blog.
Aperture control	X		I used this feature for the aperture photographs i have uploaded on my blog, to change the depth of field in my photographs.
ISO Control		X
A tripod	X		I used a tripod for my aperture and some of my shitter speed photographs in order to keep a steady camera without causing any blur from the camera movement, due to the longer exposure times of these features.
External flash	X		I used an external flash in my photo-shoot for my final product when taking the photographs for the front cover and inside double page spread.
Self timer facility		X
Light meter		X
Composition grids		X

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you aver used Photoshop ever before?	X		I have used Photoshop throughout my 2 years of college experience. I have used it through first and second year of my Graphics course, and have also used it throughout my AS media course.
Text control	X		Whenever I have been making a final product in either graphics or media I have always used text control to make the text stand out, and make it more eye-catching.
Filters	X		I used filters on some of my Products I was developing in media and also used a lot of filters in graphics.
Brushes	X		I have downloaded new brushes on Photoshop to add certain effects to my work in media.
Layers	X		I used this tool when I was creating my front cover in order to create separate layers for each extra part of the front cover that I put on.
Opacity control	X		I used this on some of the layers on my front cover in order to allow some of the image behind the top layer to show through.
Shape creation	X		I used this to create the blocks of colour on my front cover that go behind the main sell lines and headline.
Brightness and contrast control	X		I used this feature when I was editing the photographs that i took for my front cover and double page spread in my final product to make the photos look more professional and stand out better.
Gradients	X		I haven’t used any gradient features in my final product but I have used this before to edit the colours of my work in graphics before.
Load selection features		X
Feathering	X		I used this feature in order to give some of my photographs a softer edge to them so that they blended better against the back ground.
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control	X		I used this when setting up the page for my front cover that I would be working on, I set the resolution to 300 dots per inch (DPI)
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	X		I used this tool on the smaller separate electrical devices so i could separate them and edit the colour, contrast and saturation separately on these separate objects.
Cropping tool	X		I used this to cut down some of the photographs where there was a white edge where i had been zoomed out too far with the camera.
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool		X