For those of you that have a portfolio, how many catergories to you have? I am getting ready to make mine and right now I'm thinking about
Weddings
Birthday
Graduation
Sports
Anniversary
Should I separate girls and boys birthdays or childrens and adults? Are they any I'm forgetting?
Thanks
Missy
For those of you that have a portfolio, how many catergories to you have? I am getting ready to make mine and right now I'm thinking about
Weddings
Birthday
Graduation
Sports
Anniversary
Should I separate girls and boys birthdays or childrens and adults? Are they any I'm forgetting?
Thanks
Missy
I think that is a good idea, to separate the girls and boys and adults in the birthday cake sections. You might want to separate men's cakes from lady's also.
Bridal showers, baby showers, engagement cakes, baptism, first communion, sympathy cakes or a religious themed section might be useful too for bar and bat mitzvahs. You could have a special celebration section for job promotions, bon voyage cakes things like that. A section for 3D and sculpted cakes too.
Edited to add, holiday themes.
Hugs Squirrelly
In my opinion the best way to do it is pick your best cakes first, try not to put everything just to have a lot of pictures. Going by categories is a great idea too, people don't have to go around looking for the products they need. I didn't do it like that yet just because Im not very happy with some of the pictures I have. Good luck.
I keep all the pictures (well, the ones I want them to see!) in a photo album..they are not categorized though. I feel if someone is looking for a baby shower cake, for instance, there is still a good chance that someday they will need another type of cake too..so why not let them see all of them! JMHO!!
I keep all the pictures (well, the ones I want them to see!) in a photo album..they are not categorized though. I feel if someone is looking for a baby shower cake, for instance, there is still a good chance that someday they will need another type of cake too..so why not let them see all of them! JMHO!!
Heehee, good point kiddo! Mrs Missey is devious!
Hugs Squirrelly
I don't seperate my photo album. I put the 'best-most popular' cakes in the front. But I don't really have too many yet, so putting them all in one photo album isn't a problem. I think I will eventually have to do some sort of organization to it later.
But the photos I keep on my online photo album are seperated and when I'm done with my website, they will also be seperated. Here are my categories:
Children Bday
Adult Bday
Baby/Wedding Showers
Weddings/Anniversary
Holidays
Special Occasion/Novelty (Graduation, 3D, Engagement)
Cookies
I think too many categories can be a little overwhelming and most people are only going to look at the catergory that suits their needs. But a cake may be decorated for one occasion or celebration that may also work for another celebrations as well. So I tried to narrow down the categories to as few as possible.
I'm with MrsMissy ... for my physical portfolio, I have a scrapbook (1 cake per page) and I just add them as I go... no particular order.
For my web site (which i need to completely re-write) I have categories... but keep them BROAD (as Pinkbunny said, many cakes can be used for a few different celebrations!)
I just have mine in a book in no particular order.
I'm like Mrs Missey, I have gotten some extra orders just from them going through the book.
In my old portfolio (very old, hasn't been updated in at least 6 years) shows pictures in the order in which I made the cakes by date, if that makes sense. My very first [decorated] cake ever is on page 1, second cake made on page 2 and so on. They are not in order by type or occasion. It's a scrapbook I put together, only 1 picture on each page.
But any pictures I have taken with a digital camera are saved in separate folders on my computer by type or occasion. Wedding and anniversary cakes are together and I also have a theme/3D folder and a misc folder for those that just don't have a specific category. I also have a folder for FBCT pictures (still want to try one of those too...).
I do plan on putting together a scrapbook portfolio of all the cakes I've taken digital pictures of. I will most likely do separate categories but they will all be in the same book. The good thing about doing them in a scrapbook is that the pages can be removed or reordered if the need arises.
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