In Week 5, we were given an assignment to create a Keynote slide “All About Me”. I’ve used Keynote before last year so it was a little familiar to me but there was one thing I didn’t know and that was shaping the silhouette. It seemed easy at first but once you actually do it, it gets a little tricky.

When I was shaping the silhouette, I had to do 2 sets of keynote slides before I got the right shape. After I thought it was over, I had another problem changing the background colour, again I had to do 2 tries until I got the right colour for my silhouette.

Afterwards, I tried changing the shapes in the background, obviously it didn’t work so well so I left it as it for now. Then I went straight to adding images in silhouette, it took me I think about half a block to finish the digital art but it was good use of time. While I was doing it, I took 2 or 3 looks on the background and I thought ‘Hey, this is actually a bit like me – a bit of baking, a bit of music, science and sports’ so I left it as it is, just changed the opacity and made a darker ocean blue.

Believe or not, when I was close to finishing up, I accidentally pressed the delete button and the silhouette was gone. Of course I was in a panic, I only had a few minutes and not enough time to restart, after trying to find the reverse button, I was about to give up but I then saw a similar silhouette so I copied it and pasted on my slide and it was fixed.

I had a lot of problems but I was able to solve them and just in time.