hey what's up guys welcome back to my channel if you guys are checking on my
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on a weekly basis that you guys are not gonna find anywhere else so in this
video I want to show you guys a really simple tool that I use to build a
professional look in modeling portfolio websites you don't need to have any
coding experience you don't need to have any design experience whatsoever you can
literally build a website a very professional-looking website from
scratch in under five minutes so that's what I want to show you guys so let's
take a look at this site called portfoliobox okay so this website is
called portfoliobox but there are so many other easy-to-use sort of like a
create your own portfolio websites and I'm gonna leave those links in the
description box down below but I just found this one to be very
straightforward very easy to use there's a couple of simple steps that you can
use to quickly create a website so on the signup page you just want to like
you know quickly give your website a title select your profession enter your
email address and select a password once you've done that you can actually start
and then just accept the general terms here for this looking at the font I kind
of like montserrat so I'd feel like those tend to look more fashion-forward
compared to some of these others fonts they look like comic book fonts let's go
white a clean look okay so now let's start with the portfolio page we're
going to go ahead and create that so these are some templates as you can see
so let's use the gallery to create a portfolio and you can just kind of look
at all these samples of how the gallery would look and select any one kind of
lean in towards the first option there the dynamic grid but let's see what else
is here
so let's go ahead and select the dynamic grid and we can always change it later
in the process if we need to give your page a title let's call this actually
you know what let's call this portfolio
and now you can start with sample images or you can upload your own images you
definitely want to upload your own it's just like Dropbox you can drag-and-drop
your pictures you can upload them one at a time if you want to I have some
pictures already selected that I wanted to include for this demo so I'm just
gonna drag all these images here and drop them into the box don't forget to
resize your pictures that's gonna be very important when you're uploading
images to the web it looks like we did have one error message I guess one of
the images was too large so I'm actually gonna show you guys quickly once I
identify which photo it is thing is this one so I'm actually gonna show you guys
how to resize your images in Photoshop without losing any of the quality so
this is sort of like a bonus tip for you guys so to do that you want to go to
file go to exports once you get there make sure you keep the settings at the
top the same you want to make sure the quality says a hundred and all you're
doing is adjusting the image size so you're shrinking the image to a smaller
size without affecting the quality and you can see on the lower left side it
says what the estimated size that the file is gonna be so you want to pay
attention to that okay so now let's just go ahead and read upload that's it done
so as you can see all the images have been placed into this beautiful grid so
now we can actually go in and start editing some of the content so let's go
ahead and do just that
so now when you're creating your portfolio and whether it's a book or
where there's the websites you want to put your headshot first your best
headshot first then your best full-body shot next you want to put your your
absolute best picture next and then whatever most recognizable images that
you have whether from popular photographers or from magazines or tear
sheets you want to put that following your headshots and your full body shots
so it's very important that you play with the layout of your portfolio it's
always a good idea to group images that are similar or group images that were
shot by the same photographer or in the same setting so that's what I'm kind of
doing here is that I'm grouping a lot of these images that were shot on the same
day in the same set but it's same photographer so once you hit done that's
it that's your portfolio page so this is a very simple clean portfolio page it's
completely done with no code in no design experience by the way if you guys
are liking this video give me a thumbs up I always appreciate it now let's go
into creating your bio and maybe a contact page so for the bio you can just
go ahead and select one of these templates that you feel works best for
you I'm just gonna pick any random one here that looks good its title its bio
create the page and here you can change the image so let's go ahead and select
one of the images from the portfolio
and now I'm just gonna copy and paste my bio from my websites okay that looks
good so now let's go ahead and edit these social icons you can edit them put
in your own links and you can also change the links if you need to or
delete any of these links okay so that looks good let's go ahead and create a
simple contact page so this should be very basic just go ahead and select one
of these templates and then give it a page title now the only thing you need
to do here because basically the send button is connected to your email is to
just change the background image so I'm gonna use one of the pictures again from
the portfolio boom boom there we go that looks good that looks pretty
professional and clean okay so now before we publish it let's go ahead and
check it out one more time it's okay to portfolio that looks good check the bio
looks good contacts the menus working hit publish now there are two options
when you publish you can get your own domain or you can use the domain that
you already have now if you get a new domain from the sites you can do a free
version or you can do a paid version which you're gonna see in this next
screen so go ahead and type in whatever you want you're doing the main name to
be hit search and then now on the left side you have the pro domains which are
your paid domain and on the right side you have the free domains which you
don't have to pay for at all now on the pro side you can look at the pricing
page I've seen some of that go for ten dollars for a year which is not bad at
all so this is something that you might want to consider if you want your own
unique URL but if not if you're fine with having the extension in portfolio
box nets that's completely cool I don't think it matters to clients or to agents
if you have your own paid accounts or free accounts they don't really care so
as long as you can easily share your portfolio sites
your agency or with a client that's all you need all right guys that's how I go
about building a professional look at portfolio websites I'll love to see what
you guys come up with so once you've created your own websites please come
back and drop a link in the comment box down below I'll love to check out your
work and see what you guys came up with and just as a reminder we hit 50,000
subscribers on this channel last week so because of that I'm doing a special
giveaway for you guys where one lucky winner is gonna get a free photo shoot
again the details of how to participate in that giveaway is gonna be listed in
the description box of this video so look out for that if you guys have any
questions or need some feedback on your modeling portfolio sites definitely drop
a comments like this video if you learned anything new or if you found it
interesting I definitely appreciate it don't forget to subscribe I'll see you
guys on my next one