Print Skills

AS Media Production: Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Jack Toward                     Tutor group: 1.19                Date: 19/9/12

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		In media at school we had a photography course, and when we were taking the pictures you used this to focus on the subject.
Shutter Speed	x		In the media course at school we used this to capture the photo that we wanted, i am pretty average with this tool
Aperture control		x
A tripod	x		At school we we made an advert for a newspaper in media and we used a tripod to keep the camera steady when capturing the shot, i have done this to a pretty basic level.
External flash	x		We used this in our photography course to help the lighting on the image, i did this to a pretty basic level.
Self timer facility		x	But i think i know what it is.
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 ever used Photoshop ever before?	x		Yes i used photoshop at school and i used it to a prettty basic level.
Text control	x		We used this when we wanted to add text to the pictures that we took, i used this to a pretty basic level.
Filters		x
Brushes	x		We used this when we wanted to add a bit more colour to the picture, i used this to a pretty basic level
Layers	x		We used this when we wanted to delete something that we had done or change the position of things in the image, i used this to a pretty basic level.
Opacity control	x		We used this when we wanted to change the opacity of something in the image, i used this to a pretty weak level.
Shape creation		x
Brightness and contrast control	x		We used this when we wanted to change the brightness or contrast in the image, i used this to a pretty basic level.
Dodge/Burn		x
Clone stamp tool		x
Colour curves adjustment		x
Resolution setting control	x		WE used this when we wanted to change the resolution of something in the image.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	x		We used this when we wanted to select something in the image, i used this to a pretty basic level
Cropping tool	x		We used this when we wanted to delete something in the image, i used this to a pretty basic level
Retouch tool		x

In Design Skills

Which of the following features of In Design have you used before:

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
Inserting text in ID		x
Inserting images in ID		x
Resizing images in ID		x
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation		x
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		x
Text flow creation		x
Text effects – drop shadow		x
Drop cap insert		x
Using transparent imagery in ID		x
Shape creation In design		x
Text wrapping		x
Exporting to PDF from In-design		x