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Five ways to personalise assets for your portfolio

When contemplating making mockups to present our design solutions, we often jump to using pre-made PSD templates. This is very common and most designs will rely on these kinds of tools to present work. It is very easy to source PSD templates at website like these:

There are a number of problems that come with relying on these tools. It can make your work look generic and derivative. PSD templates often come with licensing fees of attribution requirement.  

You can attempt to make your project presentations more personal and individual, by creating your own presentation methods. Here are a couple of techniques that might help you begin to develop your own presentation style.


1. Use an animated gif

An animated gif that show 4 different screen designs in sequence - from UI project

2. Incorporate video

mock-up-video-2.gif

3. Try 3D in Adobe Illustrator

Image show two coffee cups on brown background with logos.

4. Create your own reusable mockup with Photoshop Smart Objects

Images show two mockups of tote bag with superimposed logo design.

5. Dive into Adobe Dimensions

donut-mock-up.jpeg