Building a Portfolio with Adobe Portfolio

Course details

Adobe Portfolio comes free with any Creative Cloud plan and enables designers to quickly and simply build a website to showcase their creative work. No web design knowledge required! In this course, Rich Harrington provides an overview of Adobe Portfolio, and shows how to create and optimize an online portfolio so it fits your creative style. He shows how to choose a template, customize the site, and import content from Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Behance. The course wraps with tips on publishing your portfolio, such as creating a custom domain.

Concepts

Introduction

Working with Adobe Portfolio
Using the exercise files

Overview of Adobe Portfolio

What Adobe Portfolio is and isn't great for
Floating remote controls and the Editor toolbar

Setting Up the Portfolio Site

Choosing your template for a portfolio site
How to customize colors and fonts for your portfolio
How to customize the background of your portfolio
How to customize the layout of your portfolio

Adding Items to Your Portfolio

How to save photos for the web from Lightroom
How to save photos for the web from Lightroom Classic
How to save photos for the web from Photoshop
How to save photos for the web from Illustrator
How to add items to a portfolio site
Syncing a Collection from Lightroom to your portfolio
Importing content from Behance
Adding content with embed code

Organizing Your Content

Getting organized with Collections
Customizing project covers
Using lightboxes to display content
Using Photo Grid to display content
Adding an external page

Publishing Your Adobe Portfolio

Previewing and publishing your portfolio
Making edits and updates after publishing
How to unpublish content
Using a custom domain name for your portfolio
Additional publishing and security controls

Conclusion

Next steps