My first group meeting! (& my new love for Canva)

Welcome back!

I had an amazing media class today. We were allocated into groups with other members of the class to have discussions about all of our projects and the ideas that we were thinking of doing. These meetings allowed us to get different points of view on our project ideas to see if an audience would like what we are creating. I found this meeting extremely helpful as I did not only get opinions on my ideas, but I also learned about so many new websites and softwares to help me with my project.

One member of my group introduced me to the website called https://www.canva.com/ and I am so excited to talk about it. Canva is a graphic-design website where you are able to create anything from flyers to social media posts to magazine spreads, which is what I will be using it for. Once this member introduced me to the idea of using Canva, I went home to look at some blogs from past years to see which other magazine producers used Canva. As it turns out, some of the best magazines I looked were created on Canva. This got me super excited.

I then made it my goal for the night to learn everything I possibly could about Canva to ensure I am creating the best magazine possible. I watched multiple Youtube videos on Canva tutorials and took a lot of notes. Here are some of the tutorials I watched in case you were interested.

How To Use Canva- Tutorial!
Graphic Design For Newbies (Canva Tutorial 2018)
Canva Tutorial|Canva Tutorial For Beginners|How To Use Canva

These videos taught me so many cool tips and tricks, as well as how to simply navigate throughout the website. I now feel super prepared to use this resource to create my magazine spread.

I also learned about an application called Lightroom. I am not going to talk about it much in this post because I am going to do a whole other post just on Lightroom.

Lastly, one of the members in my group is a photographer, so he also talked to me about camera tips for when I am taking pictures for my magazine. I have a Canon PowerShot G7 X and the member in my group had some helpful tips to share with me. I learned the benefits of taking raw photos and how to actually do that on my camera.

Overall, this group was extremely successful for me and I learned SO MUCH! I am beyond excited to start playing around with everything that I learned and I also can't wait till my next group meeting so I can learn even more.


So until next time!
XOXO, Sophie