14 DAY TRIAL // At this year's Adobe MAX conference, Adobe, the company behind products like Photoshop, Flash, Typekit, and Behance, has announced it will be releasing a new site dedicated to artists that want to build and host their portfolios.
This new service, called Adobe Portfolio, will launch by the end of the year, and will be automatically offered to all Creative Cloud (CC) users. If you're not a CC user, then you'll have to sign up for an account, with the lowest plan being available for $9.99 / €8.90.
The good thing is that if you sign up for a new Portfolio plan, you also get access to Photoshop, which doesn't make this offering look that bad when you think about it.
Other good things you get with Adobe Portfolio is instant access to any Typekit font you like, and automatic integration with your Behance account.
This latter feature would allow users to automatically pull in content from Behance accounts, which most users were already using as portfolio pages anyway.
Adobe Portfolio: Built-in Behance and Typekit integration
Adobe Portfolio's advantages come from showing your Behance art as a self-standing website, and not as an ordinary Behance profile page, allowing photographers and designers to give a more professional look to their freelance business.
Adobe boasts the service was built to work like a regular site builder, allowing users to create portfolios using a click&point and live-editing experience.
Other features include the ability to protect artwork by disabling right-click options, a lightbox image viewer, and the ability to use custom domain names.
Users of ProSite, an older portfolio building service developed by Adobe, will probably get a notice in the upcoming months, informing them to move their content to Adobe Portfolio by the spring of 2016, when the service will probably start to be slowly phased out.
