Design Portfolios: HIGH Quality Exports with Small File Sizes

Your portfolio might be getting stopped before reaching companies! Often, companies restrict the sizes of files they can receive in emails, so large portfolios won't reach them.

Use these techniques to keep your PDF file sizes down, and reach more companies!

[FredWhitten]

Another really important thing to take into consideration is whether your images are JPEG or PNG (or others). PNG images can be scaled down but can't be compressed. Any images which don't need alpha transparency should be converted to JPEGs first so that they can be both scaled and compressed when you export. I've seen this catch many people out.

[peanutz]

I was going to sell my soul to reduce my file size...but now that I've seen this I don't have to! Thank you!

[Eternaloptimist]

Sam, you simply gave me the solution to one of the biggest problems of my life ! Thank you so much brother, God bless you !

[allisonbaker]

I never ever comment on youtube videos but thank you so much! This saved me

[reviveproject]

I fucking hate companies that expect 10mb or even 5mb portfolios in the field of architecture

[francescak]

I can’t explain how happy am since finding this video!!

[crearam]

Dear sir, thanks for the tutorial which is very good. I have a suggestion. 1. While saving the native .tiff images in photoshop, first try to flatten the layers where tranperacy is not intented. 2. Go for LZW compression in PS. 3. In indesign export section opt for pdfx1a-2001 which would further reduce file size with quality and color intact. Its just my opinion. Ramalingam.

[sjessick]

Thank you so much for this!! I'm currently applying for jobs and completely blanked on how to make my portfolio smaller. Nice, easy-to-follow, tutorial 👍

[emmymcgowan]

That was soooo helpful! Thank you! I feel confident that my online portfolio will look good for my client!

[noamanalhemyary]

To be upfront I have seen some videos about reducing PDF files but non of the videos that i have watched helped me in saving my portfolio with small file instead some ways made the file bigger.
Thankfully your method saved me a lot of time that i was about to spend on searching Thanks in advance.
My file was 100 MB 💔
With your way 5 MB 🤩🤩🤩

[VaishaliPancholi-qmrr]

Such a great video with helpful tips. Thank you for explaining each individual aspect

[MLSSmithy]

Is it possible you could do a video on making a portfolio on InDesign software?

[NaomiBenatar]

Thank you so so so so so so so so much! You are literally such a hero for making this video. Life altering! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[manojmistry]

Great tips Sam! I've always been frustrated by compromising on imagine quality to get a small file size. Thanx so much :)

[keziafrederick]

I must say a fantastic video!! I had a portfolio which was 40mb and was stressing, this is honestly such a great video! Helped so much thanks! It’s now 4.7mb

[mollybauerdowling]

Thank you, this was so helpful. It is often little things like this that can catch you out.

[jamesstevenson]

Great video. You've saved me hours of agony. Thank you.

[utkarshmahajan]

Thanks. Most critical thing to do.
And I think you should properly monetize your videos. Because this video is going to be ....Most viewed video for your channel. 😊👍👍

[zaychikhead]

You're spectacular at explaining. Please continue to do more Indesign videos! This was helpful. I would like to know how you would configure the settings for a file that is an Interactive PDF, with the same goals as you had here. So, high quality but small file size. Thank you so much!

[eugeniocappuccio]

This is great thanks! What if my portfolio has a lot of vector linework (e.g. Architectural plans) that cannot be rasterized? They are the ones that always seem to keep my pdf size heavy!