May 03 2011
Portfolios
Great Tutorials for Creating Images
- Photoshop Star
- Adobe’s Current Tutorials
These tend to focus on the newest advances of Adobe’s latest version. The Media Lab has CS4 and Adobe’s site promotes CS5. - Good Beginner Illustrator Tutorial
I often build in Illustrator, pulling in images from Photoshop when I need to. Illustrator creates vector work which has the advantage of being scalable.
Portfolio Sites
- Coroflot
The portfolio website created by Core77, Industrial Design Magazine and Resource. - Yola
Found out about this one asking a Media Arts student what he used. - WordPress
Always a good backup. Check around there for others using it as a portfolio presentation. It’s not bad. - Dropr
Now in beta for the public, and an interesting option.
Other Useful Links re: Portfolio Creation:
- Creating a Successful Online Portfolio
Smashing Magazine weighs in with some helpful tips. - Web colors in HTML code