What equipment have you used over the past year?	Advantages	Disadvantages	What did I create with it? What features did I use?
Adobe Photoshop	·        There are a number of available fillers ·        Brilliant control over editing pictures and making them look more professional There are a numerous effects to use on text and pictures	·        You can’t have large amounts of text ·        You can edit multiple pages File sizes can be too big	I created my magazine front cover using Photoshop and used a number of features. For example, editing brightness and contrast etc.,  used tools such as the clamp tool and unsharp mask tool.
Camera – Canon EOS 350D	·        The camera stores images on a 1gb flash card and can store up to 260 images ·        A self-timer which is useful for avoiding camera shake It has an 8 mega pixel setting available which is enough to take an A4 picture and print it out at 300dpi	Slightly risky, too expensive and big to take on location shoots Only 8 mega pixels whereas professional photographers would use a minimum of 12 mega pixels to guarantee that picture quality at A3 size was acceptable.	I created my photographs for my magazine front cover and double-page spread using the Canon EOS 350D camera. I used the zooming tool and I had it in manual mode so that it was easier to focus.
Adobe InDesign	Column layout guides are very useful for adjusting the page design It is useful for text flow The margin guides make it look more professional	It isn’t very good at handling imagery A lot of skill is needed to export documents successfully. You have to uphold links with external file It doesn’t give a real-time view of the product	I created my double-page spread for my magazine on InDesign. I used the colour filling tools to create a significant block of colour and I also used the drop-cap tool