did you know that Adobe has a portfolio builder that you can utilize to make
your very own graphic design portfolio what does that people welcome back to
Satori graphics and today we're going to take a look at the awesome portfolio
builder by Adobe now just a quick disclaimer hashtag not sponsored because
I am not sponsored by Adobe or anyone in today's video I just find this portfolio
builder really interesting and really helpful so do follow along and see if
you agree with me Adobe has created an awesome piece of
software to create your portfolio now Adobe portfolio is completely free
for those of you who have a Creative Cloud subscription now that can just be
a single application or multiple apps but if you pay a monthly fee for
Creative Cloud then you can use Adobe portfolio now you simply need to sign in
to your Creative Cloud account in the top right menu here but before we get
into the portfolio creation side of things let's quickly check out an
example of somebody who has used in daily portfolio now is having a browse
over these examples earlier and I saw a totally awesome portfolio that you have
to see and I portfolio was made by niklas now you can see how on his home
page the logo at the top has a rollover function which is really neat but also
the interface cleanly slides down over the background image which is something
I really do like a whole lot now also each of its project thumbnails is spread
across the entire screen and it actually fills up the color when it's rolled over
but if we head into one project you will see that he has kept the style and the
layout the same throughout the entire portfolio and there's even the
possibility to embed videos directly into your portfolio I personally think
this portfolio is really stunning and this is the kind of thing that you can
technically make using Adobe portfolio so very briefly what are the key aspects
of Adobe portfolio well firstly you can link a custom domain name to their
website and you also have the ability to link your site to Behance
so you can share the work between the two platforms really really easily
the designs are very responsive and that's all achieved with no knowledge or
experience of coding required I personally don't do any kind of coding
because I never learned that skill so it's really useful for me but there's
also many many themes to choose from and it should be noted that you can actually
make multiple websites from just one Creative Cloud accounts so let's dive
into how to actually set up a website using Adobe portfolio now when you log
in by default you have your behance account linked so
adobe is going to import your Behance projects onto this websites
now if personally abandoned my Behance account many years ago because i do in
fact have my own folio websites so these are some of my old projects that adobe
has picked up and transferred but yeah just as an example to show you guys
today I place this Apple Mac Mac image from my background and I'm using a theme
called martyr in case you want to know to make adjustments to specific areas
just click the blue icon here and then enter into the settings this is where
you can change the background image and obviously if I was going to change it
I'll just hit the remove image option you then have the layout options for
your image and also the overlay color and opacity I really do like the overlay
option because it looks really neat and also sleek on the homepage itself all of
your edits are in real time so you can see the adjustments as you go with the
portfolio creation and then here you can adjust the layout for the header text as
well as the font and the style too so as you can see the design is very
responsive and neat when you scroll down over the homepage this is built into the
theme I chose but do have a look over the themes when you sign in
so over here on the left is the toolbar and this section allows you to manage
your content below the homepage section now I can drag and rearrange the order
of my projects which were imported from Behance and speaking of the hands this
is where you can activate or deactivate a setting for linking your website to
the hands if you do turn it off however all of the projects will disappear from
your website and if you want to simply start from scratch on this website you
might want to do that so obviously the blue icon here is where you can add a
new project into your portfolio there are quite a lot of settings that you
probably should take a look at yourself but to name a few you can track your
website's analytics such as traffic sources and volumes and that's by
linking your website to Google the use of meta tags is really helpful in
boosting your website's search optimization and that is something you
really want to address if you want your website ranking on Google search so you
can try and rank it for things like graphic design or logo design now below
here you have some things like the thumbnail for your social media sharing
and a few other backend site settings too so now going back to my projects
below if you again click the blue icon you can edit the layouts
of your projects by adjusting the margins here you can also dictate how
many projects are in a single row and also you can change the alignment and
stuff too however importantly for the overall look and style of your websites
you might want to edit the rollover settings this is how each thumbnail is
going to appear when a user hovers their cursor over a specific item so just as
an example I can see if - a purple from a red overlay and also as we saw earlier
you can even just have your thumbnails black and white and then when someone
rolls over them with the cursor they are filled with color another recent feature
from Adobe is that they provide you with a domain name but also now they've
linked up with namecheap so you can buy one from there or you can
simply use one you've already purchased somewhere else
but it's a quick tip if you can I recommend securing the dot-com version
over your domain because that's going to rank a lot easier in Google search terms
and you can check out places like Namecheap or dyno dots because these are
really two good domain registrar's that I personally use myself so yeah there is
today's video and I'm still getting submissions for the portfolio critique
that is gonna come Friday so do stay tuned for that video because there is
some really interesting and some really awesome portfolios you guys have sent to
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