Designing a Digital Portfolio

Anyone working as an artist or designer today has a wealth of tools and media at their disposal to show off their work. However, pulling together a focused, effective digital portfolio requires more than just a mastery of tools and design: You need to choose a medium, develop a concept, digitize traditional work, optimize and repurpose digital art, consider copyright issues, test the portfolio, and more. Lucky for you, noted designer, author, and educator Cynthia L. Baroncovers all of this and more in her practical and inspiring Designing a Digital Portfolio. Through step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, this beautiful four-color volume shows you how to tailor your portfolio to target markets and avoid common pitfalls of digitizing, organizing, and delivering the final product, whether on CD, DVD-ROM, or the Web. Along the way you'll find quotes and case studies from agency heads, art directors, and designers. Numerous sidebars offer brass-tacks explanations of a number of topics: hardware and DVD-content checklists, resolution and image-size do's and don'ts, a primer on Adobe Acrobat, an of overview of Apple's iDVD, and more.Baron, Cynthia L. is the author of 'Designing a Digital Portfolio', published 2003 under ISBN 9780321193889 and ISBN 0321193881.