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as some of you may know im making my online portfolio. right after graduating i thought it will be the best way to show my uni works i did by last 5 years, instead of sending them in various shitty copies along with my CV. therefore as i specialize in concrete constructions in civil engineering, i want to show projects i did - something about 15 projects . portfolio will include also CAD pictures i did in a JPEG format, and short description for each project i've made. but... some time ago i thought that portfolio is a way to show yourself, skills, etc, so... i thought that maybe, MAYBE., on a main page ibesides "contsct" "my Uni works" "info" i should add "music works" link to show music im also creating ? just a bunch of vbest tracks. i wanna ask about this music link, coz im not sure... so what'ya think ? should i do both music and uni works in one portfolio, or should i do one uni portfolio and separate website with music ? |
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I'm an architect stuent in my fourth year so we're kinda in the same field. From working i practice some people are open to msuic, others not, so its a pretty subjective subject. It may scare some old 60 year old partner engineer off.....where as other maybe impressed by your diverse selection of skills. But CAD drawings to JPEGs isn't the best way, export them to Illustrator or a vector program, this way the draings will stay vectorised and if you know how to do cool things in flash you could still leave all of the details of your drawings very readable |
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ah, b ut i know only how to set up JPEG format, besides i dont have illustrator ? whats the difference ? after making them JPEG i can add nice texture in backgropund to make them more...hmm, warm, and then put them on site. how to vectorize them ? |
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CAD is a vector program so it use maths to figure out where the line starts and ends, where a jpeg figures out what pixels to colour in. Vector drawings are usually a lot smaller in size and and are infintily zoomable without effecting the quality, where as a jpeg will pixelate when making it too big or zooming in. You could still add textures in illustrator, and i think coreldraw does vector stuff too. A jpeg is ok, but if you want the drawing to be as readable as possible go for a vector format. Jpegs are fine, but not really meant for line drawings, just photos |
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ok, but how should i save them as vector images ? iJEPG is made simply by adding ploter scheme and then setting up wiev that should be saved, and then you print the pic to a file and voila ! what formats whold i use to make'em better ( as you said ) ? |
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What CAD program are you using? |
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2004 ( full ) i can save files in various pic formats, jpeg, tiff, and such.. but what next ? |
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If your drawings aren't too detailed I guess jpegs will do, the best way is to save them as a jpeg and see what it looks like at your desire pixel size. e.g. are your pcitures all going to be 450x450 pixels ? If it reads well enoguh then don't worry about vector drawings. You can also set up a postscript level 2 plotter to plot EPS files - If you plot them to A0 and and open in photoshop at 200dpi it sometimes produces nice line drawings, but experiment and see what porduces the ebst results. If JPEGs are good enough for you then there is no point learning how to do vector drawings as it can become a little more complictaed Illustrator opens dwgs and dxfs, you'll need flash or director (macromedia) to publish vector drawings, (there maybe others). Flash also opens dxfs straight into flash. So if you can save a flash movie (*.swf) and you can put swfs into html sites easily. You could also animate it or modify it in flash/illustrator. |
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yeah i checked jpeg pics in various combinations before, even when they are about 1024x768, with some old paper texture added they look cool - enough details to look fine and enought to avoid little flaws that jpeg is making :) so i think i will stay at jpeg, plus i can modify its size, which is good. thanks :) |
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try exporting at quality 100%, the files are bigger but they dont get that smudgy jpg-screenshot-lool |
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yeah, im still playin tish photoshop. there is indeed a bunch of nice effects you can use with pics, we'll see we'll see... |
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If I had a portfolio, I would post them with my music to underline my creativity |
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hmmm..... |
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hes a MSc.. so id say go the professional way. i doubt it if any contractors care about your hobbys and such but then again im not polish.. |
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If someone's going to there to look at your architecture they might not even check out your tracks, but they might like just seeing that you're into other creative things like making music. On the other hand, if they do listen to your tracks and get assaulted by insane glitch-tacular drill and bass ragga-rapecore, they might be scared off. |
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Most normal companies only care about how you can make them money, so unless they're looking to hire you for some kind of strange Musical Civil Engineer position, I'd leave the music part out. It's just more professional that way. Portfolios are best when when they're short and show the company exactly what their looking for, and no more. |
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