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Test of Shadowbox Script

This is a test of the shadowbox script for displaying larger images from thumbnails.
Great for portfolios!

Here is a video showing how it is done

Picasa and Flickr Portfolios

Both Google's Picasa and Flickr offer good options for posting personal portfolios. With Picasa you can easily create an album that will run as a slideshow with high resolution images. To showcase this portfolio to a potential client you simply send them a link to the album. You can post this link in an email or your blog or on a simple personal web page. Albums can be made private or public. Captions and sections for comment are also easy to use. If you have a Blogger/Blogspot blog then you already have a Picasa account where it keeps every image you post to your blog in an album.
Link to Picasa
Link to Flickr

Here is an example of a link to a Picasa Album:
Sample Album

Portfolio Communities

There are many websites that offer the ability to create a portfolio on their hosted website. Most of these offer free space so that a large enough number of quality users populate the site and permit the parent site to sell advertising. Choose carefully what sites you choose to use to showcase your work. The reputation of the site and the quality of the portfolios there reflect on you. AIGA has cooperated with Behance to offer this service. I recommend their site as a good professional option. Link to Behance I believe that you have to sign up and get an invitation to post. Make sure you indicate that you are a BFA Illustration or Graphic Design Student.
As an Illustrator you may also want to try Deviant Art or CG Hub as places to put a portfolio. But beware of the fact that there is a lot of sub-par, work on the Deviant Site and it carries that reputation with it.

Using a Lightwindow Script for Portfolios

One of my biggest frustrations with student portfolios sites is when they have a tight little site with thumbnails and a very small area in which to view larger sized work. You really need to be able to show of your work at the largest size possible online. This is fairly easy to do if you use a lightwindow type javascript library. Go to this page I created for examples of the scripts in action.
Lightwindow Scripts Example Page
If you like what you see here you can view the source of the page you like and copy out the scripts that appear in the head of the document and then apply the class names that you see in the body.


Click on this thumbnail image below to see an example of how these scripts work. And in a blog!