How To Highlight A Collection In Your Portfolio
For artists who are creating artwork to be seen online, first impressions are everything. Having a well curated and clearly laid out Portfolio page makes a lasting impression on potential shoppers. Apart from it making navigating your Redbubble Portfolio and Shop pages a breeze, having your artwork sorted into relevant Collections makes managing your uploaded work easier for you too.
Many artists in our Redbubble community have lots of artworks uploaded and separated into different Collections, which is awesome. Please share with us your polished Portfolio pages with Collections in the comments below, we would love to check them out.
This quick and simple tutorial aims to highlight another way you can make the work you’re most proud of pop by creating a Collection to Highlight on your Portfolio page.
So first things first – a Highlighted Collection is a Collection that will appear in a row above your Artist Bio and other Collections on your Profile Page.
This is what a Highlighted Collection looks like:
Highlighted Collection across the top of Nicholas Ely's Portfolio Page
To Highlight a Collection:
- From your Profile page, simply hover your mouse over the Collection you’re most excited about showing off.
- Click on the wee upwards-arrow to pop it on the top of your Profile Page.
- Refresh and watch your favorite Collection take pride of place at the top of your Profile.
- Check out the giant red allow in the image below to be direction to the upwards arrow.
To Highlight a Collection click on this upwards arrow
To Change The Name of a Collection:
- To view the works within a collection, you can click the Collection name from the left-hand side navigation menu, or click through on the thumbnail from your profile page.
- While viewing a collection, you can rename it by simply clicking on the title up the top left side of the page, editing, and clicking the save button. You’ll also notice this is where you can add and update the description.
To Rename, View or Add a Description to your Collection click these Edit buttons
Related Collection Tips:
- Please note that for the time being, you’re not able to make a private collection, or add private works to a public collection.
- To arrange the works within your Collection, you can simply drag and drop them in your chosen order. Don’t forget to click the Save button on the bottom red bar. If you would like to remove a work from a Collection, you can simply drag it onto the Remove drop zone.Please note the big red bar down the bottom will only appear once you grab a work to start moving or removing.
- You can choose how your work is displayed when your collection is viewed. Within a Collection, click the red Edit button on the top right, and then hit Display Settings. On the pop-up box, you can choose the sort order, the type of thumbnail, and the cover image that is displayed on your profile overview page. If you would like to set your own order, make sure you choose Custom, and you can manually drag and drop images into the order you prefer them to be displayed.
- It is important to note that the selected thumbnail option will affect which works in a collection are displayed. For instance, if the selection thumbnail option is Posters, this will only display works that are available for sale as posters.
- When someone visits your profile Overview page, your Collections will be displayed on the right side of the page. You can change the order in which your Collections are displayed from your manage portfolio page by dragging and dropping the Collection thumbnails.
Other helpful tutorials:
Do you have similar tips and trick you’d like to share about your Portfolio or Collection? Let us know in the comments below.
Header image: sky writing by Nicholas Ely
