Skills Audit

AS Media Production: Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Rebecca Booth         Tutor group: 1.04         Date: 20/09/2011

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
Shutter Speed		X
Aperture control		X
ISO Control		X
A tripod		X
External flash		X
Self timer facility		X
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
Text control		X
Filters		X
Brushes		X
Layers		X
Opacity control		X
Shape creation		X
Brightness and contrast control		X
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
Clone tool		X
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 in ID		X
Resizing images in ID		X
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation		X
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		X
Text flow creation		X
Using transparent imagery in ID		X
Shape creation In design		X
Exporting to PDF from In-design		X

This is a list of skills, throughout my course i will develop the skills i do not know. As i have not had much experience using Photoshop or InDesign, i am not yet able to do most of the skills on the list, however i will learn them by using them more and more, developing new skills and further improving the ones i know.