in today's video I'm gonna show you my method for making a solid and
eye-catching portfolio post this can also be used on
social media such as Pinterest and behance
now portfolios are absolutely essential and fundamental to the success of a
graphic designers career and things start out with an authentic and a
professional portfolio which then you want to get as many eyes viewing as
possible resulting in more clients and more revenue to yourself as a graphic
designer now before we make our awesome a
portfolio graphic design post I'm going to show you exactly what you need to
actually make its and firstly you need access to high quality or royalty-free
imagery and I personally suggest websites such as pixabay and also
unsplash is another good one to these sites offer high resolution imagery that
you can use on commercial projects totally for free now you can download
the highest resolution option possible without having to credit the author of
the image itself so once you have your imagery you're going to need some kind
of mock-up because we're going to make our portfolio post look truly awesome
and eye catching by using mock-ups and various other
techniques now some of the sites have links down below include graphic Berger
and also mock-up worlds try and choose a mock-up that follows a certain style or
maybe a color scheme for your very important post and you do want to have a
running theme throughout the entire design and we're going to explore that
in more detail in the actual design phase of today's tutorial but anyway
once you've downloaded some mock-ups and some imagery is now time to head into
Photoshop and make our document setup we want to make a really elongated document
that's going to allow us to tell a kind of story based around your graphics own
project heading down the canvas so I'm gonna start with 1300 pixels in width
and then 9000 pixels in height we're gonna just this later but this is a good
starting point and as you can see we have a very narrow and a long
this to be working on so go ahead and open up some of your imagery and one
thing about pixabay imagery is that it is really high resolution and that's
gonna be perfect for our graphic design portfolio posts you really don't want
the final outcome to be blurry for my design I like to utilize the background
of an image to create the basis of my portfolio so in this example you can see
the gray backdrop and this can act as the base for my artwork
now using the marquee tool and then simply press command or ctrl T and then
extended outwards while holding down shift now we're going to build up a
portfolio post and downward by giving information and context to the graphic
design project that you worked on and in this portfolio post I'm showcasing a
loader design that I worked on back in 2017 so when making a portfolio post for
a logo design I like to depict the logo at the very top in some way shape or
form now I can copy the logo from illustrator with command or control C
and then paste it into Photoshop for the portfolio document now as we move on
with the project you will see just how eye catching this format can be for your
very important your designs in Photoshop I like to use the layer blend modes here
to set the logo into the background in a nice and subtle manner
this gives the portfolio a specific look and I feel it works really really well
I've actually decided to align the logo to the vintage camera and again use the
marquee tool to extend the background downward and also you can use the flown
stamp tool as well by selecting areas on the background and then copying them in
new locations for the text content on your portfolio post try and use the same
font throughout the entire design or at least a font family because this will
keep the visual theme continuous and it's going to tie in you our work
together neatly and professionally also be sure to play around with hierarchy
and other techniques to make a visually appealing a portfolio post
utilizing guides can also be very beneficial to having a content inline
and sent it on your page and as you can see I've aligned the text on the
left-hand edge to the camera I could go ahead and send to the text but I
wouldn't look too great if you ask me I remember if you do want to learn
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on with the tutorial I'm gonna keep in line with a color scheme of my artwork
which is pretty much grayscale and then use the rectangle tool to add in a new
section in a very brief and roundabout way I've shown the process of generating
the concept from my Lego design starting with the M symbol and having a linear
kind of origami approach to design resulting in the final design solution
and I've done this by using a three circular graphics that you can see
on-screen adding in some textual content to is another way to add some context
and yes the three circle graphics are not aligned centrally and that's my
fault for rushing the design but I'll go back and edit that at a later date
I only realized that after recording this video another great tip is to add
in the font that you've chosen for your project and then to display the
alphabetical characters now I do this in all of my portfolio posts and I feel it
gives yet more context to the viewer of your portfolio you really want to
generate a sort of simplified story based around your project using visual
cues and also contexts so what about the mock-ups that we
downloaded earlier well they're gonna come into play or right now I'm not
gonna spend some time showing you how to add your designs to a mock-up because
it's pretty straightforward and self-explanatory simply open the mock-up
in Photoshop and then double click the layer that asks you to put your artwork
inside of you then put in your artwork and then save that file and Photoshop
will place you are awake into the mock-up keep building your portfolio
post downwards using mock-ups and other sections and make sure you keep in line
with your style and also your color scheme and I've gone for a grayscale
theme and also uses the hints of gold too I'm gonna get back and revise this
design because there are some edits or mistakes that I've made that I want to
change but again that's why you shouldn't rush you portfolio posts like
I've turned today for today's video the final results the do look really neat
and also on platforms such as Pinterest and also Behance
so let me know what you think of this portfolio post formats and also did you
notice the three circles were not aligned on my design before I mentioned
there or did it not occur to you now if you want to check out more ways to boost
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