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If you are promoting yourself, you should consider posting work on Behance. Behance is an online platform that allows users to showcase and discover creative work. Behance is used by creative professionals to find work and by those hiring in the creative field to discover creative professionals that fit their needs.

To create a portfolio, follow these simple steps:

1 First of all, either click on Behance in the left column of the Creative Cloud app or go to www.behance.net and sign up. Look for the Log-in button in the top right and enter your Adobe ID and password.This connects your Creative Cloud applications with Behance. Because you are signed in you can choose to save your projects to Behance right from your menu in many of the Creative Cloud apps. This is typically done by choosing File ⇒ Share on Behance in your Adobe Creative Cloud applications.If you have not used Behance before, take a look at the first screen, For You; it appears with projects that you can click on to investigate. These are projects from other creative professionals like you.Projects are the primary way Behance members can showcase their work. A project is a group of image files, text files, videos, and other media that have a central theme or idea. For instance, it may be an example of all the visual and UX design components and assets for a mobile application, or a branding concept with print and web pieces.The average project might have 10 to 15 images broken up with descriptive text titles. All public projects are published to your profile and can be viewed by anyone by default. By the way, each project has its own unique URL that you can use to share with others.

2 Add your own project by clicking the Create a Project button at the top-right near your log-in information.A window appears that offers you the ability to add assets, as shown in Figure 3-14.FIGURE 3-14: Create a new project and add files you wish to share with others.

3 You can now follow the buttons in the middle of the screen. Start by clicking Files and then uploading files that you want to share with others. You can load PNG, JPG, or GIF files as content. Keep in mind that your selected content displays at a maximum of 1400 px unless a viewer clicks on it, in which case it will expand.

4 Click the Image button and then use the file browser window that appears to locate an image.After you select an image, it is added to the screen.

5 Click the Pencil icon, on the upper-left corner of the image, to reorder your project, add a caption, replace the image, or delete the image.Note: To add an element, such as text, you must click the related icon in the Tools panel that appears on the right side of the window, as seen in Figure 3-15.FIGURE 3-15: Add text and other elements to your project by using the menu items on the right.

6 Continue adding more images by selecting to upload files using the menu on the right, or move on to creating a cover for your project by clicking Continue.