I created my portfolio in Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat has a function under File-> Create new portfolio. The portfolio consisted of a path of folders and files within the folders and so on. The folders and files were labeled appropriately in chronological order. Labeling the folders and files correctly really helped with navigation. Along with each Project/Lab that I have done,I combined the actual work with narratives to go along with it. Narratives help the reader understand the goal of the project.This is how I created my own portfolio.
Streamlining the file size is an important part to e-portfolios.The reason behind this is that the person you want to be looking at your work wouldn't want to download a portfolio that is 1GB in size. I used techniques that I learned to trim down the file sizes of my work. Firstly, I saved each file as the lowest file size under the save option in Photoshop CS5. I only did these for the graphical works that I have. As for InDesign files I just saved as a PDF since the file size is already streamlined. Another way to shrink file sizes of graphical works would be to save the work as a JPG then save as a PDF file. This method could easily shrink a 10MB file down to 343K.
My portfolio isn't perfect, but it gives an idea of the work I've done so far. I say my portfolio isn't perfect because there is always things that I have done in the past that I need to add to it. Things such as work away from school and so on. Improvements are always available when creating a portfolio,for example, although I might have most of the work that I have done there will always be something I have forgotten to add. This is because of the quantitative accumulation of work over the past year and a half. In any case as I said my portfolio gives a vivid idea of the work I've done so far
