Create and Manage your Portfolio

If you are a graphic designer, web developer or photographer, you have come across these portfolio websites and tools many times. Some of you have used them already. Because your work needs a showroom, presentation is very important for modern designers. Design networks are great sources for showcasing your work and sometimes for checking others’ creative works.

Even if you are very good designer and your work looks professional, but you don’t show them to other professionals like you, your portfolio stay remaining unprofessional. This makes clients go away from purchasing your services.

Here in this article, we talk about some ways of creating online portfolios.

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Organizing Your Images

The first tool you need to take care about your images. There are number of softwares you need to manage images. At least you should have one of them. This is very important to organize yourself correctly.

Zoner Photo Studio

Zoner Photo Studio is a feature-rich image viewer and image organizer software. It also features many editing functions including 16 bits per color channel. It is one of the first image organizers with support for GPS and 3D technologies and aims to be a universal “all-in-one” solution for the whole process of managing and processing digital photos, including acquiring, editing, archiving, and publishing them.

Picasa

Picasa is a software download from Google, that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. The local application usage and the online storage up to 1 GB is free, and it is easy to use.

IrfanView

Fast and compact image viewer/converter trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features included: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, alignment (rotation) of single pdf pages around a small corner (e.g., 2 °), scanning to pdf-Files, OCR_KADMOS plugin, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

XnView

XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. XnView is provided as FREEWARE for private non-commercial or educational use (including non-profit organization). Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support, EXIF auto rotation support, IPTC editing, Batch convert, batch rename, Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF), 44 languages support (Windows only), Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support.

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom answers the digital photographer’s call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web galleries that are a simple to produce. Lightroom’s cross platform support allows photographers to effortlessly work on projects from any Windows or Macintosh computer on-location or in the office.

ACDSee Photo Manager

ACDSee Photo Manager lets you quickly view and find photos, fix flaws, and share your favorites through e-mail, prints and free online albums. Stay on top of your entire collection. Drag and drop photos into Windows file folders, add keywords and ratings, edit your metadata, and create your own categories. Assign images to as many categories as you like without taking up more space on your computer. Rename, rotate and resize groups of photos at once.

Aperture

You’ve taken a great shot. Now you’re ready to make it even better. Aperture 3 gives you all the tools you need to turn your photography into so much more.

LightZone

LightZone is a digital photo editor software application. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats.

JShot

JShot is a free and multiplatform screen capture and uploader utility which allows you to capture and annotate a part of your screen and share it via the Internet in one step. It lets you to upload screenshots to the Web or send to an Instant Messaging partner. JShot works on almost every operating system, no matter you are using Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. JShot is completely free to download and use without any restriction.

Creative Convert

Creative Convert is a Batch File Conversion Mac app that is meant to dramatically simplify your workflow: batch convert files on Mac, resize image file. Additionally to already mentioned, Creative Convert is also a perfect Multi Page PDF converter for Mac and bulk image resizer Mac app.

Show Your Artwork

You don’t need to create a separate website to show your artwork. Because it may be costly as you need pay for hosting, script or theme. There are websites very good for the designers as they get unique possibilities to reach a very large visitors.

Creattica

Note: This Service is depreciated.

Creattica is a gallery of inspirational design work of all varieties from 3d to advertising, business cards to web design and of course our most popular category – logos! Submissions come from our community of creatives and are hand picked for showcasing on the gallery to ensure only the finest work is on display.

DeviantArt

As a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site’s vibrant social network environment receives over 100,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.