Final Skills Audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:                         Tutor group:              Date:

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		Used this while taking my different types of pictures for my composition photos. Could use more practice but a good knowledge gained.
Shutter Speed	x		Used when taking composition photos. A good knowledge gained but could be better. Could apply to different uses like a time lapse in one picture.
Aperture control		x
ISO Control		x
A tripod	x		Used a tripod to help my brother with some photo taking. We both needed to be in the picture and had no one to hold it so also used self timer.
External flash	x		Used this with soft boxes to light up my final project photo shoot.
Self timer facility	x		Used when taking shutter speed photos so me and my partner could both get in the picture, one as a model, one to move the light source around.
Light meter
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
Text control	x		Used it on my front cover to write my sell lines.
Filters		x
Brushes	x		Used them when making my Christmas card on my blog.
Layers	x		Used for all my Photoshop projects. Learned also how to rastify layers and add layers together.
Opacity control	x		Used this for my sepia effect by adding a yellow colour over the top of my picture and then making the opacity to 10% for the right hand side of my DPS.
Shape creation		x
Brightness and contrast control	x		Used this when editing my photo for my DPS to bring out the lights and make the dark tones more rich.
Gradients		x
Load selection features		x
Feathering		x
Colour curves adjustment		x
Resolution setting control		x
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		x
Cropping tool	x		Used this to get rid of the parts of the studio you could see on my photo for my from cover of my final project.
Clone tool		x
Retouch tool		x
Other skills	x		Learned how to use the magic wand tool to be able to easily select parts of a picture to move around. Helps to get only what you need.

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		Used on my DPS so that I could keep a good guide to where my text needed to be.
Inserting an image ID	x		Used for my final project. Inserted the front cover as a picture and also the bottom left picture on my DPS as well as the entire right hand side page.
Resizing images in ID	x		Using the white arrow to resize images was useful as the resolution of our camera was so large the pictures were huge on the screen. Resized all my images to a smaller size.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	x		Used this to make a drop cap for my article.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading
Text flow creation	x		Used this as my article was too long and would all fit in one box. Was very useful.
Using transparent imagery in ID		x
Shape/line creation In design	x		Used to make the borders of the columns more apparent for readers.
Exporting to PDF from In-design	x		Used to export my final project so that I could upload it to be marked.
Text Wrap	x		Used for my quite insert so that it looked more professional. Need to learn how to use it better though as it made the article around it look very square.
Other Skills		x

Number of new skills achieved:

(compare with your initial skills assessment)