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help in are areas you should ultimately know and understand, use your partnership as
a learning opportunity.
Handle as much of the process as you reasonably can. Know your target market
and how you want to be seen. If you're working with a photographer, take some shots
yourself from the right distance and angle, with your materials arranged as you'd like
them. Decide what content goes into your portfolio and how you want your work
grouped. If artwork needs to be processed and you don't do it yourself, you should at
least quality control (QC) every piece before it enters the portfolio to make sure it rep-
resents you well.
If you do not have Flash or programming expertise, you should at least have a
hand in your portfolio's concept, look, and feel. Even better, you should come to your
meetings with a proposed design. Best, you should create the static artwork and part-
ner with someone with UI (user interface) experience to implement it.
Last but not least, you should personally test the portfolio as it develops and
before you post or send it. See Chapter 13, “Presenting Your Portfolio” for a discussion
of how and what to test.
www.emmanuel-laffon.com
Industrial designer Emmanuel Laffon de Mazières uses
beautiful background photos as important elements on his
portfolio site. He provides a credits link that not only alerts the
viewer to photographer Keira Chang's contribution, but
provides a link to her Flickr site.
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