or poster

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SO YOU WANT A REALLY
FLASH
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (or poster)
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Great! But dont bury the basics...

• Concise content
• logical order, good flow
• supported by illustrative graphics
• well rehearsed/double checked

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how to use powerpoint

• http//www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/cartography/tutorials.
  html
• one for posters, one for talks
• http//www.library.jcu.edu.au/InfoHelp/Guides/powe
  rpoint/
• http//www.library.jcu.edu.au/LearningFast/

anybody can do a decent job using these basics
Adella Edwards
room 217
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what you really need

• basic understanding of design
• fonts
• colour
• contrast
• use of graphic elements
• digital images
• vector versus raster
• resolution for use
• sources (and credits)

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• the basics apply to both talks and posters
• well touch on issues that are unique to
  different media
• well discuss poster design specifically at the
  end

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Basic Graphic Design Principles

• Fonts
• serif fonts (like Times New Roman) have a serif
  added to the shape, which creates a visual line
  which is easier for the eye to follow, and so is
  used for blocks of text.
• sans serif fonts (like Arial) have no serifs, and
  are usually used for titles and small amounts of
  text.
• decorative fonts are fun, but can be very hard to
  read. Use for titles only, and with caution

C\winnt\fonts take fancy fonts with you!
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Basic Graphic Design Principles

• Colour
• using colour well can enhance your message
• poor choice of colour will obscure it!
• It all comes down to CONTRAST

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high contrast
high contrast
high contrast
high contrast
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low contrast
low contrast
Beware of low contrast design templates
low contrast
low contrast
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Training research students in Program 2
(including associates)

• undergraduate 30 research assistants
• honours 16 completed 2 current
• Masters 6 completed 2 current
• PhD 3 completed 17 current

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and beyond contrast are issues like colour
blindness...
Both normal and those with all colour vision
deficiencies should read the number 12.
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Normal vision should read the number 29.

Red-green deficiencies should read the number
70. Total colour blindness should not read any
numeral
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Normal colour vision should read the number 5.

Red-Green colour deficiencies should
read the number 2.
Total colour
blindness should not be able to read any numeral.
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Normal colour vision should read the number 6.

The majority of those with colour
vision deficiencies cannot read this number or
will
read it incorrectly.
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Normal colour vision and those with total colour
blindness should not be able to read
any
number.
The majority of those with
red-green deficiencies should read the number 5.
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computer graphics

• vector vs bitmap

gif
jpg
ABC
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Simple illustrations can be made in Powerpoint,
and they will look a lot better than scanned
ones...
here
stop
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Step 1 collection
Step 2 analysis
Step 3 results

• input
• industry
• academic

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A few pictures can add variety and enforce your
subject
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Overview of the Research Programs
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A LITTLE animation can be useful in illustrating
your point...
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Locations of nesting populations
Cape York
Cairns
Gladstone
Townsville
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So onto scanning images
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Scanning images
http//www.scantips.com/
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What are you scanning for?

• Scan for the capability of your output device.
• Are you scanning for a computer screen or to
  print in a journal
• Computer monitors and printers work very
  differently from each other, and must be
  discussed one at a time. All of the rules are
  different for images intended for these two
  devices.

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Scanning for printing

• If you were going to scan an image to be printed
  same size on a 600 dpi laser printer, at what
  resolution would you scan?

around 240 dpi
WHAT??!! The resolution of a scanner does not
refer to the same units of measurement as that of
printers. DPI is a linguistic convention, not a
physical reality.
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Scanner resolution is actually samples per inch.
Each sample of a 600 dpi scan is 1/600 of an inch
square. Unlike the printers dot, which is CMYK,
this sample is one of 6 million colours. So how
do you determine the best resolution for
scanning? There is a rule of thumb -- scan at
twice the line frequency of the final output
device. This rule would have you scan a
photograph at 240 dpi, assuming that a 600 dpi
laser printer had a line frequency of 120 lpi.
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You have an image you want to print.
It has a size in pixels, perhaps 1200x800.
You must specify a printed size in
inches. You specify a scaled
resolution to accomplish that.
Resolution dpi (pixels of length) / (inches of
length)
Suppose the image is 1200 pixels wide.
Contemplating printing it, we see that we could
print this image at several different
resolutions, simply by changing the size of the
image 1200 pixels / 11 inches
109 dpi 1200 pixels / 10 inches
120 dpi 1200 pixels / 9 inches
133 dpi 1200 pixels / 8 inches
150 dpi 1200 pixels / 6 inches
200 dpi 1200 pixels / 4 inches
300 dpi
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300 dpi
150 dpi
72 dpi
With the images scaled according to the
resolution, they print with the same clarity
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Printed at the same scale, the differences in
clarity become very obvious
72 dpi
300 dpi
150 dpi
Scanning at the dpi you need gives the best
results for printing
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What DPI should you scan for display on a
monitor? IT DEPENDS
72 dpi is a good a guess as any.
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Properties of Computer Images Image size is
measured in pixels Image size varies with
scanned resolution Image size is modified on
screen by resampling Image pixels are located at
each screen pixel location, one for one, size
will vary with resolution of monitor One screen
pixel location contains one image pixel, and can
be of any RGB value
Properties of Printed Images
Image size is measured in inches
Image size does NOT vary with scanned resolution
Image size is modified on paper by scaling
Image pixels are spaced on paper using specified
scaled resolution
Several printer ink dots are used to represent
color of one image pixel CMYK
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I have a 17 monitor. The 300 dpi image
(1088pixels wide) is way too big for it, so you
see just a portion.
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150 dpi 534 pixels
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72 dpi 256 pixels wide
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For the computer screen, smaller in size is better

• Datashow as long as it looks good on the
  screen, it is big enough. Import a huge image and
  you can size it to fit the page, but what do you
  say during the pregnant pauses while the image
  loads???
• Like the WEB size bandwidth TIME to
  download (or load to the screen).
• RESAMPLE to the right size

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What format?

• high resolution publication .tif
• photographic image .jpg
• line drawing, text .gif

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Sourcing images from the web

• Yes you can get low resolution images from the web

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Sourcing images

• Scanners for
• Slides
• Print images
• Scans from books may create checkerboard
  pattern
• Can be removed by descreening

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Crediting images

• Always give credit where credit is due

Microsoft image
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Content of a talk/ poster

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion

A BRIEF summary of your project more than an
abstract with pictures
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OHTs and ppt slides

• General rule of thumb is MAX 1 slide per minute
• 166 rule
• 1 topic per OHT
• 6 points per topic
• 6 words per point

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Plan ahead

• Practice and time yourself
• try the equipment before the day
• make cheap bw transparencies as a backup.

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Designing Posters

• more than text on a page
• layout considerations
• flow of content
• at a glance meaning
• visual appeal

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Laying out your work
Basic Graphic Design Principles
X
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look for ideas

• look critically at magazine advertisements
• wander around TESAG (and other schools) and look
  at research posters
• think about your audience
• think about what you want your poster to achieve
  for you.

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layout your poster

• A0 is standard metric size for a poster
• 841 x 1189 mm
• my paper 36 inch roll (91.6cm)

• it is easiest to work at full size in powerpoint
• file
• page setup
• custom
• 84 x 119 cm or 33 x 47 inches

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font sizes

• titles BIG, but you dont need to scream
• main text at least 32 point
• text on figures (eg on a graph or map) can be
  much smaller (14 points)

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illustrations

• can be very effective
• dont obscure the words though
• choose a colour scheme that compliments your
  photos and graphics

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Any questions?