“Was man alles beachten muss, um ein gutes Poster abzuliefern, an dem die Kollegen auch stehen bleiben, kann man im Blog Better Posters lernen(.)” – Alles was lebt
“It’s better poster blog’s fault as to why my poster looks classy & timeless.” – Ricardo Vilain “It’s a resource badly needed.” – John Hawks I can’t possibly be as bad as some of them there.” – Anne Better Posters Blog is blowing my mind. “I find the Better Posters site comforting. “Better Posters blog is A - MAZE-ING” – A. “I want to passive-aggressively run around poster sessions putting up Post-it notes with his url on every poster.” – Dominque Not just bad, or unseemly ghastly.” – RobertSOakes “I wish there were more blogs on this subject(.) Mostly because most scientific poster presentations are absolutely ghastly. “The ‘Go To’ place to send students when they start preparing posters for their first scientific meetings” – Bora Zivcovik “Great blog with constantly updated resources.” - The Scientist magazine
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specific information on how to make a good poster is rare.” – Science Careers “Love the poster blog! I can’t even count the # times I’ve wanted to stage an intervention for a poster.” – the advice is top-notch. “One of my all time fave blogs - disclaimer: may make you obsessed with poster design.” - Megan Kobiela “just came across this utterly lovable site.” – Francesco Fiondella, website is the Holy Grail of poster making.” - Alex Warnecke “It is nothing short of The Bestest Thing Evah!!” – Ambivalent Academic His critiques and advice are spot-on.” – Liz Neeley “Every scientist should read Better Posters Blog. The level of harmony in the talk is so much higher, and the overall effect of the presentation is so much stronger, than if I had just left it looking like a scrappy quilt. In the end, almost every image in my presentation has been altered, tweaked, cropped, redrawn, recoloured, resized, or revised. It’s fairly simple to use for distinct data points, like scatter plots or bar charts. There is a shareware program called Datathief that I’ve used to get extract information from published graphs so I can replot it. But even PowerPoint can do some basic manipulations quite well.įor some graphs, I need to go right back to ground zero and redraw the graph in my own software. For instance, I can get rid of text that I don’t need or remove the background.
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Once I have a grab of the graphic, I can then put it into a full graphics editor (I’m a Corel Photo-Paint user myself other software packages are available). It isn’t turned on in the toolbar by default, though.
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For PDF files, there is a snapshot tool in Adobe Reader that lets you do grabs of anything on the screen. Making other people’s stuff consistent can be trickier.
I just had to locate a lot of archived files on my hard drive, opened them up, and started changing fonts, colours, and proportions. With my own material, this was tedious but straightforward. The shape of the graphs sometimes didn’t come anywhere near the shape of the slide.Įven with my own material, I was pulling together images from several years and projects – manuscripts, conference posters, unpublished stuff – and I was painfully aware that it didn’t fit together very well. Some used serif types, some used sans serif type. Second, the style of the images I wanted to use varied wildly. Some bar graphs had hatching to distinguish the bars that was not very pleasing to look at. Some graphs had unlabelled error bars, and some had text overlapping with error bars. There were two problems.įirst, the quality of the graphs I wanted to use wasn’t always there. I wanted to include some graphs from other, previously published papers as well as my own stuff. Shading) try to pick the most representative color within the line to trace.I was preparing for a talk. Note the color you have defined to trace (to the left of the start / end / color buttons) for lines that aren't an entirely uniform color (this one had a bit of If working with a bar chart, skip to the end of this post. If you don't have those three circles, hit the button at the top right of a solid line graph (shown in dark gray below). (green), end (red), and anywhere in-between (blue) on the line you want toĮxtract. Lines, and put the remaining 3 circles with a + through them on the beginning
Units, with March 07 being “0” and Jan 09 being “22”. Top of the y-axis (red), and right of the x-axis (green). Put the three circles with an X through them on the origin (blue), Begin by opening DataThief and importing a screen capture of
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