I learned a lot from my critque from my class. They all gave me a lot of helpful advice. I thought about the rule of thirds, color choosing, and using the space properly. I mad my name larger and and centered in under "BE YOURSELF". Since the classroom told me that my name was way too smal and I agree. Then I made "BE YOUSELF bigger also. Then I used the rules of thirds on my picture. Before I had five pictures on my slide. I decied to delete two of them because the slide was too crowed and instead of angling them, I just placed them in a line. 

I change a good bit of things on my slide. I removed my name because that took op too much room in the slide. I removed my fake images and found real ones on google. I made sure that the color of the word and the picture still matched. I used the rule of thirds to place my picture in their own third of the slide. I cornered the words "Science" and "Athletic" and made sure the spacing was symmetric. I centered the word "Technology". I put the words on top of the pictures that they corresponded with. I made my slide simple and to the point. My last slide was cramped with my name and the words and now I have changed that. 

I learned how to keep a slide very basic from the critique I was given. My slide had too many components and was really four slides put into one. On this one I kept it very basic. There is one clear image on this slide instead of four. I also tried to use more information from our research with the baseball cropped of at the top and bottom. The Phillies symbol on either side takes care of much of the empty space, but I still left some above each sign. I was advised to leave my name in all capitals so I did and finally my background was a little complex and had some odd patterns so I made it a white background, because black (the background for the baseball) an white go together well.

I realized that less is more and continuity is important. I got rid of the extra words because they didn't contributed anything to the slide. I changed the color of the words so they were closer to the color of the heart. This made the slide easier to look at because there are more similar colors.

When I was critiqued I realized a number of things. For starters, my name was barely visible. My slide was also pretty dark so it wouldn't be as likely to catch someone's eye. When I changed my slide I wanted it to be simpler. In my previous slide there was shattered glass in the background which gave you something to think about but it was also a bit distracting. I re-did my entire slide and made it simpler, eye catching and I gave a clear message to my audience that would be easily understood. I wanted my theme of my slide to be black and white because simple colors like that are easy for people to look at and they will quickly draw the person's attention. The background of my slide represents my city. I grew up in center city for the majority of my life and then about two years I moved to South Philly. My name is in bold and capital letters and it isn't hard to read. My name is big and bright too. The two dates in the upper left hand corner have significance too. August 20 and 21 are the dates my parents signed the divorce papers. The announcement of their split three years ago had a huge impact on me and has helped me becomes the person that I am today and has taught me so many things that I wouldn't have learned. The dates are smaller and less eye catching because I wanted my name to be the first thing the person sees and then the two dates would give them something to think about afterwards. 

When being criteria I decide to change some of my pictures and enlarge all my pictures. I also decided to change the background to a different blue. I also made my slide background blue. I like this slide better because my pictures work better and I understand it more than when I first made my slide. The flow of the color background blends in with the words. Also people will understand the quote threw the pictures. Hope you like my new slide!

Most of the people that recommended things that I should change said that they liked my design, but said I should change the sizes for some of the pictures I had. People were saying that I should have a little less blank space, so I made the car a little bigger and did the same with the cancer symbol and "Moose Man" logo. Besides that, I kept the slide mostly the same.

I learned from my critiques to have less images in my slide and keep it simple. These changes made my slide have more focus and easier to look at.  I decided to change my whole slide because I thought it would be too confusing and created this new slide. On this slide I wanted to make a slide of a colorful sky that represents happiness but I edited the original photo and made a darker feel to represent negativitity. I did this to show that there will always positives and negatives in our world but you can still enjoy life which is why I put the quote of What a time to be alive in there.