today I'm gonna show you how to make a portfolio cover page that is totally
awesome we're going to do that using your import rate photography so learn
how to make a portfolio cover page for your website or any social media account
that you have what is how people welcome back to tutor graphics the home of
graphic design content or right here on YouTube let's jump right in today's
tutorial on how to make a portfolio cover page that's also going to work for
social media accounts in the description below is a link for all dimensions for
2018 social media banner artwork so check it out and find out what pixel
size to use for your social media artwork so once you open up your image
in Photoshop you will need to open up the layers window that will click the
layer to unlock it like so to enhance the image some words we're going to open
up the kerbs window here and then you can play around with each end of the
line seeing what works for your image the lighting effect that you used would
determine what effect this has on your portfolio cover design
we're going to use a dodge and burn tool next so create a new layer and then name
it Dodge and burn
they will click the foreground color in the color palette and then make sure the
CMYK values are zero zero zero and fifty
then without layer selected in the layer window press Alt + backspace to fill the
layer and then change the blend mode to soft light you will find the Dodge tool
here make sure the exposure is really low I'm using two percent and also a
soft brush
the idea is to click and rub along any highlighted areas to enhance and make
them appear softer take your time to do this and you will
see a gradual change in your design you can go to around five percent of
exposure if you want but I suggest to keep it very low around two percent
you will notice on the dodging burn layer that you are having an effect will
be a quite subtle so if you go back to the dodge tool you will notice the burn
tool blow this is G's in the same way as the Dodge tool but it's good bring out
shadows rather than highlights
so use both of these tools on the shadows and the highlights of your
design to make a visually appealing effect on your portfolio cover page when
you're ready go up to layer and flatten image unlock that layer and now press
command or control J to duplicate it on the top layer go up to filter blur and
surface blur you can adjust the slider until you see fit but you want to make a
really blurry outcome
once it's finished take the eraser tool and a soft brush and a somewhat lower
beta T I'm worried about the use of interest such as your face on your head
you can drop the opacity of the entire layer down a little too
so next in this tutorial how to make a portfolio cover page we want to flatten
the image once again unlock the layer not a gradient like so
I like to use this purple to orange gradient but you can experiment with
your portfolio cover page adjust the gradient direction and the slider until
you're happy and then click OK
press command or control J to duplicate a layer and then change the blend mode
on one of them to overlay and into screen when the other one now play
around with the opacity of these two layers until you happy take time to
experiment with this so you do have an awesome portfolio cover page designer we
nearly finish but I have one more trick to show you next if your portfolio cover
page is not the right size grab the crop tool and stretch out the image like so
then grab the marquee tool and make a selection number one side hit command or
ctrl T to select it and stretch it over the edge press command or control D to
deselect and then do the same on the other side so this can help you adjust a
portfolio cover page for uses on social media as well as your website like I
said in the description as a link to different sizes for each different
social media site in 2018 and so there is today's tutorial on how to make a
portfolio cover page that is totally awesome
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