If you are looking for a free tool that allows you to easily create a visual portfolio of images and/or video clips, organized into categories, Dunked offers an excellent solution.

Simple, elegant and very straightforward to use, Dunked makes it easy to upload one or more pictures at a time and to arrange them on your portfolio page and into separate collections called Projects.

You can customize background, colors for all the elements on a page, fonts, logo and you can add a personalized About and Contact page.

My comments: Excellent visual portoflio tool for photographers, designers and artists of any kind. Compared to having an image or video collection on Pinterest, the difference is that the presentation style is much more elegant, and images are viewed by default at a much larger size. You also have fine control on individual text style, colors and other design elements. The absence of a bookmarklet further indicates that this tool has been designed with the photographer/artist/painter in mind and not to collect stuff found on the web.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://dunked.com/

If you are planning to create a visual CV for yourself soon, do not waste your time trying out the many cool alternative tools that are available out there to create one, like Easel.ly, LinkedIN Resume Builder, Vizify, Infogr.am and several others.

In my view, even if you use a fancy visualization tool, what makes the most difference is having a unique visual "idea" to support the presentation of your credentials.

This is why I suggest that, if you have the fancy and skills to create your own visual CV, there is no better resource for inspiration that I know of, than this huge Pinterest collection by Randy Krum.

It is invaluable. Worth even a paid print edition. 9/10

http://pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes/

*My compliments to Randy for creating and maintaining this.

The Social Media Image Maker from Autre Planète is a free web-based tool which simplifies your job of creating and personalizing your profile or official page banner image across all major social media channels.

The Social Media Image Maker supports Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, Vimeo, LinkedIN and several more.

To use it, you simply go to http://www.autreplanete.com/ap-social-media-image-maker/ and you click on the social media channel for which you would like to create a custom profile image or banner.

You are provided with all the tools you need to crop, resize, filter and modify your image so that it fits the specific size requirements of each and every platform.

My comment: Excellent tool for non-techies who want to straighten up their profile images around the web with a friendly and powerful helping hand.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.autreplanete.com/ap-social-media-image-maker/

If you are an author, blogger or journalist and you would like to create an online professional portoflio of your best work, here is a free service that provides a simple, but excellent personal branding and news portofolio service: Pressfolios.

Pressfolio is basically a portoflio site service for writers and journalists who want to organize, store and showcase their best content online.

You provide URLs for the articles and clips you have already published and Pressfolios crawls out to grab its key meta-data and makes it easy for you to integrate it in the free one-page profiler that Pressfolio creates automatically for you.

You can create different sections of your content clips as to organize them according to different topics / industries / issues / years / publishers.

Last but not least Pressfolios automatically helps you create a profile page for yourself to support your content showcase, in which you can list your "professional focus", skills, social networks you are active on, and some kind of text introduction alongside an image of yours and a theme-image that you can also choose for yourself.

Free to use.

More info and try it out now: http://www.pressfolios.com/

Here is a real world example I have put together to fully check Pressolios and its features: http://robingood.pressfolios.com/

Epik CV is a free web app which allows anyone to create a highly visual, professional-looking and well organized curriculum vitae online.

Epik CV is organized around four key content and presentation areas:

1) a "Timeline" which displays your professional work engagements up to

today,

2) a "Profile" where you can provide personal info,

3) a "Portfolio" where you can showcase your work in images and clips,

4) a "Text" area where you can post additional text-based info about yourself.

Epik CV can import data directly from LinkedIN and populate your CV with that information in no time at all.

Your completed Epik CV can be set to be "private" or "public", in which case it can be shared with anyone by way of a direct link to your public page or by exporting it as a PDF document.

Free to use.

Features: http://epikcv.com/about.html

Example: http://epikcv.com/flat_cv.html

Try it out now: http://epikcv.com/