The handouts on this page complement Imaging Solutions Lunchtime Seminars, open to all Harvard employees, students, and HMS hospital affiliates.
We invite your suggestions for new topics for classes and seminars. The chances are that if you're curious about a topic, others are too.
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Imaging Essentials: The Nuts and Bolts of Using Images in Your Documents
- Imaging Essentials seminar slide deck
- Imaging Essentials guide: understand the difference between vectors and rasters, learn the proper way to resize images
- Creating Figures guide: a fundamental recipe for figure construction
- Output Options guide: Make PDFs, EPSs, TIFFs, and JPGs from any other app, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Figures for Journals: Efficient Workflow for Creating Figures for Scientific Journals
- Figures for Journals seminar slide deck
- Creating Figures guide: a fundamental recipe for figure construction
- Imaging Essentials guide: understand the difference between vectors and rasters, learn the proper way to resize images
- Output Options guide: Make PDFs, EPSs, TIFFs, and JPGs from any other app, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Harnessing the Power of Photoshop: Making and Using Actions and Droplets to Minimize Repetitive Tasks
- Harnessing the Power of Photoshop seminar slide deck
- Imaging Essentials guide: understand the difference between vectors and rasters, learn the proper way to resize images
Poster Making For Large Format Printers
Wait to start making your poster until you read the poster guidelines for the meeting you'll be attending.
- Poster Making slide deck
- Poster Making guide: a basic recipe for making posters and other figures with PowerPoint and Photoshop
- Imaging Essentials guide: what you need to know to prepare images for presentations
- PowerPoint poster templates
Poster Print Service Bureaus
These service bureaus provide suggestions on what is available. We cannot endorse their services because RIS has not tested these providers.
You can download an HMS logo vector graphic from the HMS Identity Guide. Additionally, there are guidelines for the use of Harvard University insignias.
Reliably Accessorize On-Screen Presentations: Making Images, Movies, Animations, and Links Work in PowerPoint Presentations
- Reliably Accessorize On-Screen Presentation slide deck
- Creating Figures guide: a fundamental recipe for figure construction
- Imaging Essentials guide: what you need to know to prepare images for presentations
- Extracting Images from a PDF Document guide
Drawing Tools and Illustration Features of PowerPoint: Creating Vectors Without Expensive Graphics Applications
- Drawing Tools seminar slide deck
- Output Options guide: Make PDFs, EPSs, TIFFs, and JPGs from any other app, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word