AS Media Production: Technical Skills Audit Print Production

  

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	Y		I have completed this skill just by using a camera at home. I am able to zoom and focus on an object or person.
Shutter Speed		N
Aperture control		N
A tripod		N
External flash		N
Self timer facility	Y		I have completed this by just using a camera at home. There is a setting to choose how long you want the camera to wait before taking the photograph.
Light meter		N
Composition grids		N

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?	Y		I have used photoshop at  secondary school, when doing my media work and graphics.
Text control	Y		Again I did this when I was at secondary school. I know you have to click on the ‘T’ button at the side.
Filters		N
Brushes		N
Layers		N
Opacity control		N
Shape creation		N
Brightness and contrast control		N
Dodge/Burn		N
Clone stamp tool		N
Colour curves adjustment		N
Resolution setting control		N
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		N
Cropping tool	Y		I used this at secondary school. There is a button down the side that when you go over it, it shows that it is a crop tool. When using this you just need to select what part you want and double click.
Retouch tool		N

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