What's the advantage to editing the pages as parent pages rather than normally? Also, how do you ensure quality with a 5-10 mb export? I've only been able to get it down to 39mb from indesign without compromising the quality and have tried every trick I could find.
The advantage is really only if you are trying to stay to a strict format, otherwise it's really just personal preference. I typically only like to do a parent page for most of the background contexts like titles, page numbers and those things
Hey Carter, this video is super helpful. I’m in my second year of my BSLA program and I’m starting to put together my portfolio but I’m worried that it’ll seem underwhelming due to the lack of design work I’ve done so far. I only have two designs from last semester that I’m going to fix up and use. I also thought about putting in some of the work I’ve done for my internship. What do you think? What else should I include if I don’t have much to show right now? Thanks again!
I think including some internship work is great for what stage of school you are in right now! And on the same breath, don’t worry too much about the quality of your work as you are only at the very beginning of your studies and the work will improve naturally over the years. The most important thing to focus on is finding a good format you like and showcasing your own abilities within them. Because eventually as you get more experience you can simply swap out old projects for new ones very quickly with a consistent format
Do you try to match your portfolio with your resume? Im currently working on my resume, cover letter and portfolio and they all have the same text and color palette. Too much?
I would format it the same if it’s included in the portfolio, if it a separate file I wouldn’t worry about it being the same format and style. I try to keep the resume as traditional and simple as possible!
Hi. I've created my portfolio in the same way as you have with the intent of it being like a book. I was wondering how I'm supposed to create a pdf book now that I'm done? I've tried so many things but it still comes off as a normal pdf document with half the pages, and not as a pdf book. Would really appreciate any help! Kind regards
Hi, there is a way to export the file so it reads like a book. When you export a pdf in InDesign you will be greeted with the export options window, within that you can change the default output to export as pages to spreads which will have the program put it together like a book for you!
Hi. I've just bought one of your templates but it says that I have almost 60 missing links. There are just a few images I can move and the rest of it I can't edit or move at all. The text is not editable too. How I suppose to edit the content and replace is with my projects?
Hi, that is due to the set up of the document. If you hit W in the work space to show all of editable contents you will notice that everything is locked so that things do not get moved around when you are editing. To unlock them you just need to hit ctrl, shift, and left click on each line of text, image etc. Alternatively you could make the adjustment in the master pages set as well. The missing links will disappear as you replace with your own work.
Thank you! This is something else I did in photoshop for the thumbnail, but you could use a site like Issuu to see and share in a format similar to this!
What's the advantage to editing the pages as parent pages rather than normally? Also, how do you ensure quality with a 5-10 mb export? I've only been able to get it down to 39mb from indesign without compromising the quality and have tried every trick I could find.
The advantage is really only if you are trying to stay to a strict format, otherwise it's really just personal preference. I typically only like to do a parent page for most of the background contexts like titles, page numbers and those things
Dope video thanks for the help
Thanks for watching! Glad you found it helpful
No problem! Thanks for watching!
It was an amazing video! Keep up the work. It has widened my perspective. Thanks.
Thank you!
Hey Carter, this video is super helpful. I’m in my second year of my BSLA program and I’m starting to put together my portfolio but I’m worried that it’ll seem underwhelming due to the lack of design work I’ve done so far. I only have two designs from last semester that I’m going to fix up and use. I also thought about putting in some of the work I’ve done for my internship. What do you think? What else should I include if I don’t have much to show right now? Thanks again!
I think including some internship work is great for what stage of school you are in right now! And on the same breath, don’t worry too much about the quality of your work as you are only at the very beginning of your studies and the work will improve naturally over the years. The most important thing to focus on is finding a good format you like and showcasing your own abilities within them. Because eventually as you get more experience you can simply swap out old projects for new ones very quickly with a consistent format
Hello, could you ask people to submit their portfolio and do sort of a review. It'll really be helpful.
I have thought of that! I’ll see if I can arrange that
Thankyou, really useful information.
Thank you! Glad you found this helpful
Do you try to match your portfolio with your resume? Im currently working on my resume, cover letter and portfolio and they all have the same text and color palette. Too much?
I would format it the same if it’s included in the portfolio, if it a separate file I wouldn’t worry about it being the same format and style. I try to keep the resume as traditional and simple as possible!
Hi. I've created my portfolio in the same way as you have with the intent of it being like a book. I was wondering how I'm supposed to create a pdf book now that I'm done? I've tried so many things but it still comes off as a normal pdf document with half the pages, and not as a pdf book. Would really appreciate any help! Kind regards
Hi, there is a way to export the file so it reads like a book. When you export a pdf in InDesign you will be greeted with the export options window, within that you can change the default output to export as pages to spreads which will have the program put it together like a book for you!
Hi. I've just bought one of your templates but it says that I have almost 60 missing links. There are just a few images I can move and the rest of it I can't edit or move at all. The text is not editable too. How I suppose to edit the content and replace is with my projects?
Hi, that is due to the set up of the document. If you hit W in the work space to show all of editable contents you will notice that everything is locked so that things do not get moved around when you are editing. To unlock them you just need to hit ctrl, shift, and left click on each line of text, image etc. Alternatively you could make the adjustment in the master pages set as well. The missing links will disappear as you replace with your own work.
@@DesignItGreen Thank you. I already made a portfolio
by my own. Thanks for your video. It was very inspiring :)
Your video is really helpfull, how do you render these project photos , is it done in photoshop?
Yeah this is done in photoshop, there is also an application where you can do it too
@@DesignItGreendo you have any videos for creating such renders? Its really good
Hi nice vid u do portfolio review it would be Nice for a upcoming video
I plan to do a portfolio review at some point in the future!
I really love the video, but how do you get it to look so realistically in the thumbnail, is it a setting in indesign or is it something else?
Thank you! This is something else I did in photoshop for the thumbnail, but you could use a site like Issuu to see and share in a format similar to this!
@@DesignItGreen can you maybe make a video about how to do that?
Sure!
Shared this great video as well. Thanks for your time and effort....
My pleasure!
Great Video! this taught me a lot of new things!
Thank you! Glad you learned something new!
Great video! It helped me to creat mine with a pretty professional result :)
So glad to hear!
pleaase do more of these thankyou
Will do! Have a great lineup of tutorials coming up
@@DesignItGreen great Thankyou
Merci bcp prof
thanks for watching!
so good! thank you very much!)
No problem, glad you found it helpful!
ur channel its a so-call newbie thing ? i mean recently
In youtube terms yes! Have been doing this for almost a year now!
great video!
Thank you!