Digital Autobiography

To make my digital autobiography, I looked at the pictures on my computer to decide what I wanted to do it on. I saw my London and Paris pictures and decided that’s what I wanted to chronicle. I had such a good time there. I visited my best friend there during a spring break. I had the best nine days there and would love to go back again soon. We had such a good time touring and I made many great memories.

After looking through the programs, I selected Roxio PhotoShow. Using the Roxio program to make the digital autobiography began as something fun but turned into something frustrating. After uploading my photos I moved ahead to the next step, choosing backgrounds, picture options, songs, text, etc. As I chose certain options and clicked the save button, sometimes it did not seem to save the options I selected. I felt that I could not navigate the program very well. Then I discovered that choosing certain options automatically changed other aspects of your slide show. Another problem I encountered was that Roxio did not provide many choices for the various slide show aspects and when I chose to look at the other, better options, I received a pop up that said I had to buy a subscription to the program for $40 if I wanted to choose that option. The same thing happened when I wanted to add my personal music to the slide show. I did not enjoy many of the options they had available; in fact, one option that kept playing gave me a headache. I had to take a break and return to finish the project later.

After taking a break and returning, I decided to look again through the available selections. After I chose one, I looked through the songs that were free to use and found one that I liked (even though I had never heard of it and would have preferred one of my own songs). In the end, I was happy with the finished product and surprisingly the song. I hope you enjoy it! Here is the link to view it: http://www.photoshow.com/maker/share/zp9pI3zh