Peano wrote:
Buy a domain name, get hosting, and set up your own site. Then you can do anything you please with it.

EDIT: Here you go. Your name is available, 89 cents a month.



Just go here and buy it!

QFT. except that domain is MeGriscom... kind of cool to join the 2 gs together but WILL confuse clients so best to go with the actual name.

namecheap is solid. Just don't host your website with the place you register it (you don't want to be held hostage if you decide to move one of the services.
make sure that whoever you hire to do your site knows the benefit of this.

btw, i do web dev work but i'm really expensive...

Mask Photo wrote:

QFT. except that domain is MeGriscom... kind of cool to join the 2 gs together but WILL confuse clients so best to go with the actual name.

namecheap is solid. Just don't host your website with the place you register it (you don't want to be held hostage if you decide to move one of the services.
make sure that whoever you hire to do your site knows the benefit of this.

btw, i do web dev work but i'm really expensive...

Actually, I think Peano meant MEGriscom as in first initial, middle initial, last initial. Megangriscom.com is also available. Totally agree about going with Namecheap, which I use myself, and using a separate host from your domain registrar. I use Host Gator personally.

Going with a website of your own is definitely the best choice. It's professional, you have complete control over it, and it has other useful features like email hosting (whateveryouwant@yourdomain.com) and ftp. Things like that help with both attracting clients and providing good service.

What an abysmal habit of writing. I suppose this shorthand was invented by people I see walking around punching their thumbs into some small piece of hardware --  "texting," another debasement of the language.

I have not learned, and will not learn, this mindless form of communication.

If it were mindless, you wouldn't need to learn it.

Be that as it may, disrupting a thread to tell someone that you understand that you don't and won't understand what they're saying is still disrupting the thread.

/meta-disruption

You can hash out your mindlessly literal interpretation with the folks who compile dictionaries. I don't buy it. I'm sticking with "stupid or careless" as the common meaning.

I call bullshit on that. It was a reply to me, and it used a mindless abbreviation that I didn't (and still don't) understand. I think it's more "disruptive" to use that sort of shorthand.

Peano wrote:

What an abysmal habit of writing. I suppose this shorthand was invented by people I see walking around punching their thumbs into some small piece of hardware --  "texting," another debasement of the language.

I have not learned, and will not learn, this mindless form of communication.

Sounds like an old man who doesn't want to keep up with the times.

How do you start out making an Adobe document or portfolio? Is it something you download?

Yeah, maybe you're right. I just can't figure out this newfangled Photoshop stuff. What I wouldn't give for your skills.

And if I could just get with "QTF" and all the other texting abbreviations, maybe I could even, you know, write a book or something.

Guess I should just wander off and fall asleep in a snowdrift.

Even my computer spell checker can't figure out this lingo ...

Perhaps. I would ask the employer what he preferred.

You originally asked about a digital portfolio you could send to a client. A prospective employer isn't a client, so that might be a different kettle of fish.

Acrobat.  It used to have a portfolio option in the menus but now it launches a wizard and makes a flash presentation.  I would just use word now and save as PDF, it may not compress the files size as well (not sure about that) and you can't force the layout but it works.  I used to always do a spread two page layout like a real book, but really that is just my taste.

Even just creating a image per page type PDF is nice to be able to send out.  Just make sure it's not the exact same images on your website.  If they are asking its probably because they have already seen that and want more.

Right I agree. I'm wondering if I should do both....

Well now lets not get ahead of ourselves here. I think you may be on to something. After all, it's so much quicker to search a website, screen grab, import, flatten, save, upload to a website and then link that image into a response unrelated to the OP than it would be to google something you don't understand and choose to remain willfully ignorant of.

Well being as you went solo as a freelance writer in 2004, I suppose we should be thankful you finally wrote something.

Peano wrote:
Guess I should just wander off and fall asleep in a snowdrift.

Even my computer spell checker can figure out this lingo ...

There's no need to use a proprietary program like Acrobat to generate PDF files.

I recommend Inkscape if you want to create it using a graphics program. (Or use GIMP. GIMP can export to PDF format, too.)



You can use LibreOffice if you want to create it using a word processing program.

Or, if you want to get really fancy and use a professional typesetting system, you can create it with TeX.

oh holy jesus. it means "quoted for truth", and it was NOT invented by texters, as I've ONLY seen it used on THIS VERY FORUM and nowhere else.
http://www.sendu.me.uk/modelmayhem/?tex … rt_order=0

Way to hijack.

That is an awesome page for a retoucher....  I would just be happy with a slider gallery that worked as well as that site.

Here is one you can make from the Website and see how simple it is for yourself.
http://redfishblack.com/pdf/

I've made a screencapture of how I made a PDF portfolio in the style of the portfolios generated by the site suggested by Krunoslav-Stifter.

I made the pages one at a time using Inkscape, and then used pdftk to put the pages together into a single file.

The PDF file is here: http://musiconestudios.net/portfolio.pdf

I'm editing the screencapture video now. After it's uploaded to YouTube, I'll post it here.

That's nice, but lawdy this is becoming complicated. I just want a submittable port for job opportunities. I've seen that many employers accept the pdf portfolios. I just don't like the way its come out...it look pedestrian...and the images are too small.

I know! I really liked it. Simple, but really good quality.

I didn't understand that site. Not a lot of directions and I don't want to download something I don't know what its gonna do.

but wow, their work is stunning. beautiful retouching.

Thanks for the trouble! .

I was asking to see some examples of the different design used in different portfolios and if someone included in their portfolio the before/after images, or it was only finished stuff. Cause I was thinking in making my own in Indesign (once I have one of course lol) and, the plan was to make something like a photographers photobook with a nice minimalistic design.

Ah, I misunderstood. I'm really like an idiot. But speaking of InDesign, the freedom-respecting program to replace InDesign is Scribus.


Using Scribus to create the entire multi-page portfolio in one go is easier than outputting one page at a time using Inkscape and then gluing it together using pdftk.

I'll create a PDF portfolio in Scribus and post of screencapture of that later.

Anyway, here's the screencapture of Inkscape that I promised:

+1

does photoshop export to pdf too? I just go this laptop and I don't want to add a bunch of programs to it. that's what killed the last one....lol.

Ding ding! save a Word as a PDF...lol...ive done that before, im such a numnut. I think I'll try that. I really didn't want to download a bunch of programs to make a portfolio. Thanks

Actually I tried the word document and the images are still too small. There seems no point unless the viewer can see the detail of the work. Ill keep trying

Is this remark a joke...? Or just don't know how to behave..?

@Megan...great site from Aaronology

Thank you for you wonderful contribution to an already very informative thread, as always.

You can create pdf's out of Illustrator or InDesign as well.

I would be terrified to apply to a company that does not take pdf's as forum of portfolio via email in the creative world.