- 4 Sections
- 8 Lessons
- 1 Quiz
- 1 Assignment
1. Selecting Portfolio Pieces
2. Cake & Food Photography
3. Showing Details, Process & Creative Range
4. Build Your Canva Hustle Ready Portfolio™
Portfolio Ready™ is Course 2 in a 6-course cake decorating pathway, designed to help students turn their completed cake work into a clear, professional portfolio foundation. In Module 1, Selecting Portfolio Pieces, students curate their strongest cakes and build a balanced collection that demonstrates finish, skill, styles, techniques, and cake types. Module 2, Cake & Food Photography, teaches practical ways to photograph cakes clearly using effective lighting, angles, backgrounds, simple styling, editing, cropping, and image organization for a consistent visual collection.
Module 3, Showing Details, Process & Creative Range, helps students capture the craft behind each piece through detail shots, texture, structure, finishing work, process images, sketches, and creative variations. In Module 4, Build Your Canva Hustle Ready Portfolio™, students complete a hands-on build of their own editable Canva portfolio: choosing a layout, adding selected work, finalizing the presentation, and saving a shareable link. This course focuses exclusively on selecting, documenting, and organizing cake work into a usable portfolio; pricing, branding, and marketing are covered in later courses.
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This course includes
Curate a focused selection of cakes that showcases technical skill, finish, and creative range.
Photograph and edit cake images for clear, consistent portfolio presentation.
Use detail, process, sketch, and variation images to show the craftsmanship behind each cake.
Build, finalize, and save an editable Canva portfolio with a shareable link.
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