what is that people is Tom here with Satori graphics the home of graphic design
content right here on YouTube this week I have a mini series and how to boost
your graphic design career totally for free and we're kicking things off today
with three online portfolio platforms which is totally free and I think you
should be utilizing them all for your graphic design work the third portfolio
platform might surprise you so let's kick off this mini-series on how to
boost your graphic design career totally for free online the first free portfolio
platform that I'm going to show you it's Behance now many of you are know about
the hands but I'm going to show you how I personally feel is the best way to
utilize it as a graphic designer when you click onto the hands you'll be
met with many many thumbnails or what I feel is absolutely amazing work
I could spend simply hours looking over the work on this website but I don't
have that kind of time to spare you can of course use a search option to search
out specific work now I do have an account on here but I've neglected it
quite a lot and haven't updated it in years mainly due to the fact that I have
my own portfolio website now I will show you my method of using be honest
instead of simply posting a single image of your way I would advise you all to
tell a story by showing progress of the project showing different stages of the
design and do things like close-ups this example isn't the best but you can see
here I briefly share the logo development stages as well as show the
colors used in the design my second example is a lot more relevant
so here is a wax and sweet project that I worked on last year right off the bat
I give a brief description about the project and I show the Pantone colors of
the local design this to me looks professional as we scroll down you're
going to see that I've showcased the designs as well as showing off the
typeface of the logo in a creative way I'm going to talk you into Photoshop
that was 1000 pixels wide and about ten thousand pixels tall I then added all of
these elements onto the design that I uploaded it a behance this is my method
for having a dope design for Behance projects also I use the color scheme
throughout the entire project to tie everything together so this is the first
portfolio platform for free that you can utilize to boost your graphic design
career also in Behance you can choose your account as a paid
online portfolio this isn't free of course but it may be something you want
to look into so if you haven't they already give the answer shot and see
what you can do with it
weebly was founded by three college friends who wanted to make it easier to
display and promote their work online so it's designed for creatives by creatives
today the site has a wide range of features that make it a top choice for
building a sick portfolio the SEO functionalities mean better rankings and
visibility while the built in marketing tools make it a popular solution for
e-commerce and design customers alike Weebly has a free option that you can
utilize also their paid versions which let's be honest per month has not a lot
of money to be spending let's take a quick look at some of their themes we
are possible portfolio
I like to look at this seam here it's clean and it's simple
as you can see this could easily become a great portfolio
I personally would share cakes my work here under services and change the link
to something like work instead of services so if you want a professional
portfolio for free or next to nothing check out Weebly the last platform that
will help you boost your graphic design career for free is wait for it Instagram
I will get into why it's a great platform for graphic design as soon as
you can see here I myself have an Instagram profile and I'm fairly active
on it I prefer to be more active but I run short on time in my day to day life
I like to showcase some of my work as well as make it more human or personal
finding a balance between two for more and too informal is important I feel one
great thing about using Instagram for graphic design portfolio is the hashtag
function it's commonplace for designers to max out the hashtags as this will get
your work seen very easily for free so if we type in logo as a search term we
will see huge amount of results
as you can see here in this design all the relevant hashtags and economic size
enough how much of a help this is to get exposure to a design work
so that was Instagram if you promote your account of the social media sites
use hashtags wisely and upload your best work as well as remaining human
throughout you can gain a lot of traction and exposure who totally free
in the next episode of this series on how to boost your graphic design career
for free I'm going to show you ways to really up your Instagram game in depth
perfect for graphic designers wanted to showcase their work so I hope you enjoy
today's first episode on a three-part series of how to boost your graphic
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design your future today peace
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