Freelance design - Topics

When clients copy portfolio pieces — do I redo them or drop them? Do case studies beat a gallery of finished images in a freelance portfolio? Clients want the editable source file — do designers hand over layered files or charge a buyout? Client work for a design portfolio needs permission before it goes public Beginner portfolio projects: small and finished or ambitious and rough? Fonts and stock photos bought under a designer's own license cannot legally travel to the client Showing the messy process behind a project: does it help or dilute a freelance portfolio? Is a personal project allowed to sit next to paid work in a freelance portfolio? Rebranded client work in an old portfolio piece: recaption it or retire it? Redesigning an existing brand as a portfolio exercise — legal or not? Are self-initiated briefs worth putting in a portfolio when everyone can tell they are invented? Do Behance and Dribbble versions of a freelance portfolio need to match my own site? Is spec work ever worth it for a designer trying to break into a new sector? Pricing a full brand identity is not the same as pricing a poster — where does the line sit? Handing off a design system means naming layers and writing specs nobody pays for A design handoff needs a type scale and usage rules alongside the file My client's favorite color will wreck the brand and I have to say so without losing the job Do you need formal design training for brand identity work How many revision rounds should a logo project include before the extra ones cost money? Should a freelance designer ever agree to unlimited revisions for a flat fee? Why do clients approve a comp and then reject the built version as too different? A client asked for three concepts and then picked pieces of all three — how is the hybrid billed?