Portfolio reflection.

Erik Urdina’S Portfolio reflections.

1.      What was the purpose of your portfolio? Who is it targeted for, and who else do you think you can use it for? The purpose of my portfolio was in order to display all of the work I have done though out the past term in an organized way, allowing for the viewers to see how my skills improved as time went by in the class. This target is mainly for colleges that target these types of things if I wish to be a visual designer in the future, As well as it will be able to assist me in getting into jobs, as I will have something to show them if the job calls for what I have done in class. It could also be used by my current teachers to see what I have gotten better at and what I require to improve in.

2.      How did you create it? I created it using adobe acrobat pro 9. After creating a new portfolio, I converted all of my projects and labs into PDFs, which would allow everyone to view our word even if they did not have the program the project was made in. I then created folders in order to place my work in. on the outside I had 2, design work and image work. In design work I placed in all the projects along with the labs that we had done over the last term. I created folders for each of the projects, named after what they contained (for example, logo was project 2, so I created a folder, placed lab 2 within the folder, along with the labs we did during the time, and named the folder “project 2: logo”). I added a title to the project, along with a welcome page. We then converted the portfolio to a PDF itself.

3.      How did you streamline the file size? In order to decrease the size of the file, therefore decrease the size of overall the whole project, we went to projects, and as we were converting it into a PDF, what we did was change the Adobe Preset to smallest file size, along with turning off preserve Photoshop editing capacity. This in turns takes off much KB off of the file, but the quality stays roughly the same, and only a few minor differences can be viewed. We could also place it on press quality, which seems slightly better than smallest, and still shrinks it down quite a bit, but not as much.

4.      Would you say that your portfolio is an accurate example of your work so far? Explain your answer. I would say that the portfolio does fairly show how my work was in the first term. It shows that I was fairly lazy when it came to doing it, and it was only later on that I begin to really start trying to do something in the class. I admit I have to do better, but I am proud of what I have learned so far, but am not finished improving. I plan to do as much work as I can in this marking period, so that when we do the next Portofino as snap grade shows we may do one again, this time I can be very proud of it.