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New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Kansas State University
Graduate Portfolio Viewing Equipment
Good afternoon,
Over the past few months, I've been working on my portfolio for graduate applications on a 1440p ultra-wide monitor In my college town and have nearly finished it. I returned to my home town where I opened it to the final touches on a 1080p monitor and it looked completely different. Lines, textures, and images have all lost there quality that had months put into them. As the gap closes to the application deadlines I ask the question.
Do most universities use OLED or 4k /2k monitors to view portfolios? Or will they be sitting on small laptops / Ipads to view them?
How should I go about this trouble?
The latter. Everything on the page should be pixels, then work back from there. Vectors are just too unpredictable not just with displays but also with the speed/memory of the device.
My most recent workflow for "the most dumb, universal, has to look good" type PDF has been linking vectors into Photoshop, compressing them out as PNGs, then linking those into InDesign. Gives you the most control and flexibility as you tune things. You essentially want to avoid baking anything in your workflow, since that takes time. Tweak how the vector gets pixellated in Photoshop, update links, review, repeat, etc.
Maybe this is an insane way to work, but for school portfolio review, you can't assume anything about how people are looking at it. Less unpredictable for jobs.
Also keep in mind that they'll flip through it, only spending a few seconds on each spread at first. Good luck!
Also: "their quality," not "there quality."
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