What is Behance for?
Document your creative process and show work to peers or potential clients. Publish only work you have the rights and permission to share. Remove confidential material from client projects.
What is Behance?
Behance is Adobe’s creative portfolio platform. Members assemble projects with images, video and text, follow creators and make their work discoverable.
What makes the service distinctive
Behance is useful for visual professionals who want to show both process and outcome. A detailed portfolio takes preparation.
A practical first step
Select three representative projects, explain your role and method, then add clear credited visuals.
Decision signals
- Typical visibility
- Projects are generally public
- Main discovery route
- Projects, profiles, search and recommendations
- Publishing effort
- Regular
- Particularly suited to
- Professional creative portfolios
Use these signals as a starting point rather than a score. Behance may work differently by country, account type and app version.
Before choosing Behance
Your purpose
Document your creative process and show work to peers or potential clients. Behance is useful for visual professionals who want to show both process and outcome. A detailed portfolio takes preparation.
Your pace
The main formats are projects, portfolios, images, videos, profiles. Typical effort is described as “Regular”. Start with a pace you can maintain.
Your privacy
A project may expose clients, colleagues or production data. Obtain the necessary approvals before making work public. Review settings after major app changes.
Compare Behance with DeviantArt
Behance presents creative projects and processes as a portfolio; DeviantArt is more of a community around artwork and exchange among artists.
Question to ask : Do you want to show finished projects to clients or exchange regularly with fellow artists?
Frequently asked questions about Behance
What is a Behance project?
It is a page combining visual work and text around a creative outcome or process.
Should I publish everything I have made?
No. A focused selection of clear, permitted projects helps people understand your practice better than a complete archive.
What is a practical first step?
Select three representative projects, explain your role and method, then add clear credited visuals.
Key consideration
Publish only work you have the rights and permission to share. Remove confidential material from client projects.
Sources and verification
This profile separates factual service description from editorial advice. Features, terms and settings may vary by country, age, account type and app version.