Hey guys, so I'm not sure if Upwork staff read these forums, but I was hoping that if we got enough community support behind this they might take notice.
A lot of the freelancers on Upwork are designers and developers. Showing off our portfolio often consists of sharing screenshots of our webpages or apps that we've designed or developed.
The most sensible way to show off a design is to simply upload a screenshot of the full page or component you've designed. For most websites and apps, these will come out to be quite tall and thin.
The current component for displaying images is pretty inadequate for this task.
Currently, portfolio images are extremely limited. They can be no more than 10 MB, which, okay, we can live with, and they can only be 4000 x 4000. Again, it's not the end of the world, we can compress the images height-wise, but it really would be ideal if that limit were expanded as an average landing page can easily run into the ~10,000 pixel + height range.
Further, once you've uploaded this image, you are forced to crop it as a horizontal rectangle. This is the opposite of useful for the vast majority of web and app designs, which are vertically biased.
In order to get the entire shot within the crop, you're forced to insert that vertical shot into a canvass which is 4000 pixels wide by 2000 pixels in height. The majority of that width is useless white space, just so that you can use the cropping tool to encompass the entirety of the height of the image.
The outcome is extremely compressed, and mostly wasted space. It's impossible to make out any detail in the designs, and most text, even large text, is unreadable. The clients are basically able to see a blurry, smudgy, tiny impression of the design we've made.
Here is an example:
The other option is to manually chop up these vertical images into 3-6 separate images. Which makes for a really clunky and incohesive experience for the client to navigate through, not to mention being a pain for us as freelancers to prepare for each portfolio item.
My request is that we get a better component for displaying images in our portfolios. It should be built with the reality in mind that most designs we're showcasing are going to be much taller than they are wide, and it should ideally allow us to upload these images at high fidelity so that clients can get an actual look at what we're producing.
This could be done just by relaxing the aspect ratio requirements, and giving clients a scrollbar when viewing an image so that they could look through the entire image.
I really think this one change would dramatically improve the quality of the presentation of everyone's portfolios. I wonder what the rest of the freelancer community thinks about this?
Again, hopefully, if this gets enough support we can get the staff at Upwork to take note and maybe consider making some changes.
Thank you for taking your time to read this!
Community Manager
Hi Virgil,
Thanks for sharing your feedback on this! We most definitely read posts in the Community and I'll be happy to forward this to the team for review.
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