EQ 7--Review this semester. What activities have you enjoyed and why? Why activities have you not enjoyed and why? Upload your favorite piece of work so far and explain why it is your favorite.

The activities I have enjoyed are creating the company logos and using the trade face powers of Photoshop. I enjoyed these the most because they showed me some of the powers of adobe. The activities I did not enjoy were writing the business plan. It was tedious and annoying and in my opinion was a waste of time that we could have spent learning more tools and techniques to illustrator and photoshop.

This is my favorite piece of work just because it is simple yet interesting. It also shows how much you can do with very little in illustrator.

Upload your favorite logo. Explain how you made it. Explain why it is your favorite.

This logo is my favorite because I put the most time and effort into it. I made it using shapes and effects to create the background and pictures off creative commons. The text was created then doubled up to give it a 3D look.

What are the eight parts of the business plan your were assigned? Is that different then you thought? What are the issues you have had so far writing your plan? What has been easy?

1. Executive Summary
2. Company Description
3. Market Analysis
4. Organization and Management
5. Service or product line
6. Marketing and sales
7. Funding Requests
8. Financial Projections

The only issues I have had so far is the overall length of it and the Market Analysis have been especially time consuming. Describing the service or product line has so far been the easiest.

EQ 4--What do you think goes in a business plan? What are the parts? Is research involved? What facts do you need to know, if any? Where could you find this information?

I think a competent and successful business plan has many parts. I believe it has to have long and short term goals, a well thought out idea and plenty of research to back it up, you must be patient and plan for obstacles and setbacks, and a thought out process and back up plans to help you achieve your goals. You need to know the facts and statistics of where you are at and how well according to geography and ethnicity your goods or services will preform according to those. You should also try to fulfill some kind of want or need with your business plan to try and get people interested. You can more than likely find most or all of this information on the internet using, business blogs and forums or other reputable sites.

EQ 3--Explain at least two difference between Photoshop and Illustrator. Which one do you like better and why?

Illustrator is used mainly for more specific and detailed pictures and advertising methods while photoshop is better suited to altering pictures rather than creating them. Of the two I enjoy using illustrator for the most part more. The thing that bothers me is how annoying it is to change the color of the paintbrush on mine. Instead of changing it at will I have to paint something, click on the mouse tool click on the object I just colored, and then change the color of it. I have to do this every time I want to changes colors so doing a multicolored design can sometimes be very annoying.

What has been your favorite project so far and why? Upload the project and explain why it has been your favorite.

My favorite project so far has been the trade face design. I thought it was cool we immediately got to see how to photoshop people's faces onto different bodies and understand a lot of the fundamentals of photoshop. It was a cool beginners project and I hope we get to learn more interesting photoshop possibilities while I am in here. This is what the picture of my trade face looked like when I uploaded my face to a girl's body:

Its not great but I still feel it turned out pretty well for my first time.

Company Ideas

Today we worked on ideas for our company name and products. We needed to come up with 10 names and product ideas that we thought we could use. I am leaning towards the name "In the Mix" and I am thinking about creating muffins for my product. After that every group needed to come up with an idea of what it was going to do out of those ideas. Afterwards we need to blog about what we did and then publish it.