Behance is an online platform by Adobe where you can create a professional profile to display your creativity and skills efficiently. On the Behance platform, users have access to share web designs and other creative works directly, along with the option of sharing links in their profiles, which gives them more opportunity to enhance their network. Every Behance user uses the platform for several reasons, which simply means every creative individual with skills such as website design, development, graphics design, creative writing, and more can create a profile on this platform and showcase skills and previous projects to create a valuable community that helps you upskill and get more leads efficiently.
Here is all you need to know about Behance:
1. Registering an account: This is done by inputting the Behance web URL on your browser or visiting the app, navigating to “sign up,” clicking, and filling in your personal details such as email, name, and others. In a situation where you do not want to fill in all the details on your own, you can link your Behance profile with other profiles like Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, which would automatically fill in your personal details. After registration, you then have access to add all your created projects under your respective skill, which also includes directly uploading the whole project, the pictures, and the links.
2. Charge fee: Behance can be used for free by all users, giving members access to create as many projects as possible without any limitations. However, using the free version, you would only be able to add limited design and feature options but could access more options for as little as $14.29 per month.
3. Uploading your portfolio: To upload your portfolio on Behance, navigate to Add Projects and click on “Upload My First Project” to add your first project work, after which you will receive prompts to personalize your page as you upload your images.
4. Getting views on Behance: To get high views on Behance, it is important to consider featuring your work on the platform’s curated galleries by highlighting your work and presenting it in a professional and saleable way, choose a cover image that compels users to click and view your project, and click on “Publish” only when you are ready for the world to see your project.
5. Promoting your Behance and gaining followers: In order to grow your followers and promote your page or portfolio on Behance, you will be required to fill out your profile completely, share your work on all social media platforms such as Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, build a story, share some BTS work, like other users’ pages, tag your project, and also collaborate with Behance to feature your work or any interesting project.
6. Access to view who clicks on your link: Other users who follow you on Behance can see your work in progress, and to view this, all you need to do is click the blue button at the bottom left corner of the specific segment to see the number of views, usernames, and types of reactions.
7. Choosing tags: choosing the right tag is very useful and important when categorizing your work because curators use tags when searching for work on Behance. Therefore, using appropriate tags that describe the nature, technique, or medium your work exists in is very important.
8. Publish complete projects: Often times curators only review projects once, which is when they were first uploaded, due to the high volume of projects that are uploaded to Behance every day. It is therefore very advisable to publish projects when they are complete and ready to be considered for the curated galleries.
In addition to these, it is important to put into consideration uploading innovative, polished, thoughtful, and well-crafted work because prospective employers consider the quality, originality, presentation, context, and traction your upload is getting in the community.