Illustrator for Scientists
Illustrator for Scientists
A technical workshop to understand and use Adobe Illustrator for your scientific illustrations
The best scientific discovery is worthless if it is not well communicated. Scientific articles are one level of this communication. Figures, graphical abstracts, and graphs are another, and are an often underestimated level of communication. Visual representation of your science is a key tool to communicate your science in an intuitive way. Adobe Illustrator is one of the leading applications to create visually outstanding scientific illustrations.
This workshop is tailored especially for the needs of young scientists – PhD students and postdocs, and everyone who is interested. It will start with the basics of image processing and guide you through Adobe Illustrator to help you create your own scientific figure/illustration. After the workshop you will have a practical guide for an efficient workflow in Adobe Illustrator.
Starting with the basics of image processing, this workshop will give you an overview about the purposes, advantages and disadvantages of different image file formats and their corresponding programs. We will go through the workspace of Adobe Illustrator and learn about the technical structure of an illustrator file. You will learn how to import graphs from Microsoft Excel, R, SPSS, GraphPad PRISM, or your favourite statistic program, how to modify, combine, and arrange those graphs into one figure, and how to export the figure for your paper submission, conference poster, or presentation.
We will work together on practical examples, so bring examples, questions and problems from your own work.
Combine workshops!
This workshop can be combined with the workshops listed below to provide a complete set of skills to understand the technical and theoretical concepts of graphics and the application into illustrations for articles or complete posters.
