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wow. i'm surprised with the feedback. really helpful information guys, thank you very much. This will really help me out with my designs.

Thank you all for your comments. I will put into consideration advices given. I'm glad a few of you liked my work. Feel free to contact me for help. I will put up a post when I complete the flash version. Thanks again for the feedback.

i already had a THINK regarding the accessability of the pages inside the book. The screw post can be easily removed to add and subtract sheets in the book. I agree with what's inside the portfolio is what's important and overdoing things will make a bad impression towards clients. I'm not going to say that I have good design skills because none of you know me and will not affect the judgements made towards me if i do. I will post a picture of the final product once I complete this project so assumptions will no longer arise. also in reply to rork: I think that portfolios is judged on the entire package in and out, plain portfolios can contain shitty material and fancy portfolios can contain good material. The entire presentation counts, althoug it is not necesarry to put together a nice cover, it affects the impression one intends to make. And yes overdoing it will not be a good idea, but I'm not one to commit such mistake. Oh ya, so what if i scratch tabe tops, that's not gonna affect if i will get hired or not, it's the portfolio remember.

Thanks for the philanthropist acts. This forum really has beautiful people in here always ready to lend a hand. I have actually already found what i needed...I found in a site fastportfolio.com, the cover i needed for my book which is made of aluminum covers and screwpost binding. I am also getting a steel lazer cut out of my logo to put on the front of my book. I'm just looking for a really profesional look that is also different from others. Again thanks for replying.

because i don't want to be just another graphic artist in the crowd with traditional portfolios. Putting a customized one will give me an edge over others. I'm willing to spend time and money to give off a better impression. There's actually quite a bit of reasons why I'm doing this, but i hope you get the gist.

haha...i have the same problem. That blue screen of death seems to be common on laptops. The only solution is more ram i believe. I have a 1 ghz on mine and 256 ram and I deal with that all the time. Just save often and don't run any other progs while using photoshop. Does anyone know where i can find more textures?