Portfolio Review Score Calculator

The weighting is fixed at composition 30%, technical quality and storytelling 25% each, and style consistency 20%, reflecting the calculator's built-in premise that a technically flawless but poorly composed or inconsistent portfolio still reads as weak overall. That means improving a low composition score by even one point will move your Overall Score more than the same one-point improvement in technical quality or storytelling.

The formula scales total images by (overall score ÷ 10) × 0.15 and rounds, but that result is floored at a minimum of 10 — even a portfolio scoring near the bottom of the 0-10 range won't be told to shrink below 10 images. This reflects that a usable portfolio needs some baseline number of images to show range, regardless of how harshly you've self-scored it.

Since the recommended count scales directly with score ÷ 10 in the sizing formula, a stronger self-assessment lets you keep a larger share of your total images — a portfolio scoring 9/10 gets a notably higher recommended count than the identical image total scoring 4/10. A lower score instead pushes the recommendation toward a smaller, more tightly curated edit on the theory that a smaller set of strong images beats a larger set diluted by average work.

No — Strength is just the same 0-10 Overall Score bucketed into five fixed thresholds: 8.0+ is Excellent, 6.5-7.9 is Strong, 5.0-6.4 is Average, 3.5-4.9 is Needs Work, and below 3.5 is Weak. It's a label applied on top of the same weighted number, not an independently computed metric.