1
00:00:02,180 --> 00:00:05,869
[Auto-generated transcript. Edits may have been applied for clarity.]
I'm an instructional technology coordinator here in the libraries.

2
00:00:05,870 --> 00:00:11,750
My main area of work is in the Adobe Creative space, which is on the first floor of the library.

3
00:00:12,170 --> 00:00:19,490
Um, down there is the Innovation and Research Commons, and it has all kinds of fabulous facilities for you to use.

4
00:00:19,790 --> 00:00:24,949
If you have to create a virtual presentation, maybe a video or something like that.

5
00:00:24,950 --> 00:00:29,000
We even have an audio studio that you can reserve and come use.

6
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:35,120
We have, uh, camera equipment and audio equipment that you can come use as well and check out for free.

7
00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,020
And we have our Adobe Creative Consultants down there too.

8
00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:44,930
They are student employees who can help you with maybe reviewing your poster design.

9
00:00:44,930 --> 00:00:49,789
They might be able to give you tips and tricks, um, give you some feedback on your design.

10
00:00:49,790 --> 00:00:57,050
They can also help with any of the Adobe apps. So if you're looking to use I'm going to demo Adobe Express today as an option.

11
00:00:57,050 --> 00:01:01,100
But of course you could go on and learn Photoshop or InDesign and or illustrator.

12
00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:03,229
I'll probably, uh, if we have time,

13
00:01:03,230 --> 00:01:09,740
also demo some InDesign a little bit so you get some idea of how you would do that for a research poster so it can look really professional.

14
00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:15,050
Um, so that's kind of our plan for today. So I have a presentation here.

15
00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:19,340
Um, you are welcome to go ahead and maybe save that.

16
00:01:19,340 --> 00:01:25,070
I'll be link or if you'd like to open that up on your own computer and like follow along with this presentation.

17
00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:30,740
You're welcome to do that because there are links on this presentation that you can like click on.

18
00:01:31,190 --> 00:01:37,370
Um, and then tomorrow you guys will receive a follow up email from the library registration system,

19
00:01:37,370 --> 00:01:41,120
the workshop registration system, and it will have that link.

20
00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:47,390
So if you lose it or something, don't worry, you'll get an email tomorrow so that you can have that resource after today.

21
00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:52,160
And you'll also get a recording, uh, from today as well as, uh, video recording.

22
00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:59,149
So if you'd like to follow up or review it, or maybe you're going to make a poster like in a month or two and,

23
00:01:59,150 --> 00:02:05,959
you know, you're welcome to review the recording and so on. So, um, those are some ideas to kind of get us started, but feel free to go to that.

24
00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:11,180
I'll be short. Link. Um, I can also go ahead and maybe put it in the chat real quick.

25
00:02:11,180 --> 00:02:18,410
So let me do that. AUV iae irc poster.

26
00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:23,029
Um IRC is for innovation and research commons.

27
00:02:23,030 --> 00:02:26,030
So that's um, uh, where that comes from.

28
00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,890
All right. Let me go ahead and go to the next slide here.

29
00:02:31,250 --> 00:02:36,619
Uh, already introduced myself. So we're all good. We're not a very big workshop, so I don't have any assistance today.

30
00:02:36,620 --> 00:02:39,620
So if it's a huge, uh, workshop than we do that.

31
00:02:40,458 --> 00:02:47,238
Okay. So what the first part of our session, I'm going to kind of go through this presentation, but I'm going to go through this fairly quickly.

32
00:02:47,598 --> 00:02:50,908
So, um, try not to be overwhelmed.

33
00:02:50,948 --> 00:02:54,948
You have this resource, this PowerPoint to refer to now.

34
00:02:55,188 --> 00:03:00,648
Um, and you'll get a follow up email tomorrow with the link to this PowerPoint as well that you are welcome to use.

35
00:03:01,008 --> 00:03:08,328
Because what I'd like for us to do is spend a good portion of our time during the second part of our session today in in the software.

36
00:03:08,568 --> 00:03:13,068
So you can kind of get some hands on ideas of how you might use it and play around with it a bit.

37
00:03:13,428 --> 00:03:19,457
I understand when you attend online, it's kind of hard sometimes to see the presentation or see a demo and try it yourself.

38
00:03:19,458 --> 00:03:23,537
So whatever you're most comfortable with doing, you're going to get the recording as well.

39
00:03:23,538 --> 00:03:29,018
So you're welcome to kind of sit back and enjoy today and kind of take it in and then try it on your own later,

40
00:03:29,028 --> 00:03:32,147
whatever you feel comfortable doing this. Okay.

41
00:03:32,148 --> 00:03:37,758
So but when you are, uh, needing to design either a poster or a presentation,

42
00:03:37,758 --> 00:03:42,138
some of you might be going for the three minute thesis and you might be prepping for that.

43
00:03:42,438 --> 00:03:49,128
Whatever it is, you have to kind of think about, okay, what's the purpose of my presentation or my poster?

44
00:03:49,728 --> 00:03:53,568
Who is the audience? And maybe what are the requirements?

45
00:03:53,778 --> 00:03:58,338
Okay, so three minute thesis, you obviously you're limited to three minutes and there's probably other requirements.

46
00:03:58,638 --> 00:04:01,638
Or they may give you a rubric that they're going to use to grade you with.

47
00:04:01,998 --> 00:04:09,768
Um, same thing with a poster. They may tell you you're going to be doing this poster at such and such conference, and it has to be,

48
00:04:09,768 --> 00:04:16,037
you know, this size or it has to be, uh, digital, um, or it's going to be a PowerPoint presentation.

49
00:04:16,038 --> 00:04:20,418
You're limited to one slide, whatever it is, kind of figure out what those parameters are first.

50
00:04:20,418 --> 00:04:25,997
So you have an idea what your, uh, goal is. And then, uh, thinking about what is it for?

51
00:04:25,998 --> 00:04:29,118
Is it a contest? Is it a conference? Is it face to face?

52
00:04:29,118 --> 00:04:38,028
Is it virtual? Um, other time constraints that you have when you're prepping a poster and you are going to be required to present your poster,

53
00:04:38,328 --> 00:04:43,698
you're going to have a pretty limited amount of time to talk with people as they come around to your poster.

54
00:04:43,938 --> 00:04:49,638
So making sure your poster helps you get through, like your ten things and 60s.

55
00:04:49,878 --> 00:04:56,148
Or sometimes it's even five things in 30s because they're just coming around very quickly, right?

56
00:04:56,358 --> 00:05:00,917
Here's a couple of, uh, photos from some actual conferences that have happened here at Auburn.

57
00:05:00,918 --> 00:05:06,498
The top one is the, um, is an egg conference, uh, contest, a student contest.

58
00:05:06,828 --> 00:05:11,358
And you can see they're all kind of right next to each other. It gets very noisy in there.

59
00:05:11,928 --> 00:05:15,348
And, uh, you know, your typical kind of poster style.

60
00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:22,008
And you have maybe, like, 10s to tell somebody. What's the most important thing about your research or whatever it is that you're studying.

61
00:05:22,248 --> 00:05:27,048
So that's you have to kind of go into your planning, knowing that type of thing is going to be required.

62
00:05:27,558 --> 00:05:31,308
Um, here's an example of a more informal conference.

63
00:05:32,088 --> 00:05:39,428
This is Doctor Spears. He's from horticulture, actually, and he has a very simple poster here that was designed to, uh,

64
00:05:39,438 --> 00:05:47,297
help him talk to other researchers about, uh, what areas of research does he do and what are some ways they could collaborate together.

65
00:05:47,298 --> 00:05:50,568
They invited people from outside of Auburn to come other researchers.

66
00:05:50,568 --> 00:05:53,957
And that was the goal to kind of meet and greet and get in touch with each other.

67
00:05:53,958 --> 00:05:59,298
So we'll see his poster, um, as an example, in just a little bit so you can get an idea.

68
00:05:59,658 --> 00:06:02,868
Um, but notice how he's, like, ready to go, right?

69
00:06:02,868 --> 00:06:07,008
He's got his poster up here. It's on a board. It fits the right size board.

70
00:06:07,068 --> 00:06:11,118
You know, he's got handouts. He's got his, uh, name tag on.

71
00:06:11,118 --> 00:06:15,168
He's professionally ready. And then check out this one behind this guy.

72
00:06:15,528 --> 00:06:20,837
It's like failing, right? It's a wall of text. It's falling off because it's not the right size.

73
00:06:20,838 --> 00:06:25,368
They didn't pay attention to the requirements, and nobody's even over there talking to anybody.

74
00:06:25,368 --> 00:06:31,308
So that was like really kind of a waste of time for that person. So you want to make sure you set yourself up for success as well.

75
00:06:32,598 --> 00:06:40,248
Um, if you're not sure where to begin, sometimes using a presentation framework can help you maybe think about the what,

76
00:06:40,818 --> 00:06:44,778
the why, the how and the how to the how to.

77
00:06:44,778 --> 00:06:47,598
You can also be like, what's the call to action?

78
00:06:47,748 --> 00:06:52,878
You know what's sort of the main thing that you want to get across to the person you're speaking with?

79
00:06:53,298 --> 00:06:56,508
Um, how did you accomplish your research? What did you do?

80
00:06:56,778 --> 00:06:58,818
Uh, maybe. Who did it involve?

81
00:06:58,938 --> 00:07:05,358
You know, um, these are sort of the main things to be mulling over and thinking about as you're trying to figure out what to put in your poster.

82
00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:11,828
Here are some presentation tips. Uh, face to face, you want to appear approachable.

83
00:07:11,838 --> 00:07:17,268
You want to be what's called assertively friendly. Um, it's always kind of awkward when somebody is, like,

84
00:07:17,598 --> 00:07:21,658
walking around and you're not sure if they're going to come talk to you about your posture or not.

85
00:07:21,678 --> 00:07:28,157
So having, like, a catchphrase that's ready to to say like, oh, can I tell you about my research?

86
00:07:28,158 --> 00:07:31,788
Or, um, is this the first time you've been to this conference?

87
00:07:31,798 --> 00:07:35,088
You know, and then just try to initiate some contact there?

88
00:07:35,328 --> 00:07:40,338
Or do you also study, you know, horticulture, you know, and that sort of thing.

89
00:07:40,578 --> 00:07:46,578
Uh, looking professional, wearing a nametag, having your friendly opening statement like we just discussed.

90
00:07:46,848 --> 00:07:51,768
And you're ten, 16, your ten most important things that you can say in 60s.

91
00:07:52,038 --> 00:07:55,698
And again, sometimes it has to be a little bit more limited, like maybe five things.

92
00:07:56,058 --> 00:08:02,028
And it's okay to have a little card with you to help remind you of what you want to say, you know, so you can be prepped for that.

93
00:08:02,448 --> 00:08:07,307
Um, maybe having a QR code on your poster that leads to more information.

94
00:08:07,308 --> 00:08:12,887
That's a great way to save space on your poster or QR code could lead to a form that they fill out,

95
00:08:12,888 --> 00:08:16,218
that they give you their contact information, if that's what you need.

96
00:08:16,608 --> 00:08:19,608
Um, it could go to a video that you display.

97
00:08:19,608 --> 00:08:24,528
You could have multiple QR codes on your poster. You know, depending on what it is that you're trying to get across.

98
00:08:24,978 --> 00:08:34,108
Maybe some handouts, you know, and then on the right hand side, or if you have to do a virtual presentation, uh, set yourself up for success.

99
00:08:34,128 --> 00:08:37,098
You know, if you have to do a zoom presentation or something like that,

100
00:08:37,098 --> 00:08:42,348
try to look professional, uh, set your computer up for success by closing everything else out.

101
00:08:42,708 --> 00:08:46,038
Similarly, have an opening statement ready. 1060.

102
00:08:46,428 --> 00:08:51,438
Uh, have QR codes or are short URLs ready to link to more information?

103
00:08:51,858 --> 00:08:58,878
Um, all of these types of things. So, um, you know, uh, have a nice quiet space that you're doing that in where you won't be interrupted.

104
00:08:59,568 --> 00:09:03,498
Um, other presentation tips, uh, practice.

105
00:09:03,828 --> 00:09:07,158
Right. So practice maybe with a classmate, maybe an advisor.

106
00:09:07,428 --> 00:09:14,448
Uh, get some feedback. You can also record yourself either like, on zoom or using a mobile device.

107
00:09:14,868 --> 00:09:16,517
Uh, practice your 1060.

108
00:09:16,518 --> 00:09:23,208
If you're if you're kind of stumbling over your words a little bit, you need to change your words so it's easier for you to get through.

109
00:09:23,568 --> 00:09:30,678
Um, uh, or you need to adjust your presentation because the flow isn't right, you know, of how you want to deliver it.

110
00:09:30,798 --> 00:09:34,278
So remember anything in your PowerPoint or your poster presentation?

111
00:09:34,698 --> 00:09:38,268
The goal is for those things to help you talk. That's all it is.

112
00:09:38,838 --> 00:09:42,558
So putting things on there to help you get through your spiel is what you want to do.

113
00:09:43,158 --> 00:09:46,578
PowerPoint also has a presenter coach tool.

114
00:09:46,848 --> 00:09:52,247
This is really cool. So you can put a PowerPoint up and then you can go through your presentation.

115
00:09:52,248 --> 00:09:56,387
And if you have a paper poster doesn't really matter. You don't have to have anything on the screen.

116
00:09:56,388 --> 00:10:05,958
You can still use the presenter coach tool. It listens to you and it'll say, hey, you were going to fast on this section, or you said, um, 50 times.

117
00:10:06,318 --> 00:10:10,578
Um, you know, uh, it, it it'll kind of give you tips, you know.

118
00:10:10,588 --> 00:10:15,108
Um, so that's very nice and that's just by yourself using the PowerPoint tool.

119
00:10:15,408 --> 00:10:19,098
Um, so that's always available, which is great.

120
00:10:19,758 --> 00:10:24,647
Um, keeping slides simple. Make the most at the beginning of your presentation.

121
00:10:24,648 --> 00:10:28,668
Maybe you have a short story. Maybe you have an amazing statistic.

122
00:10:29,028 --> 00:10:35,568
Um, maybe a question. Um, part of your research question could be, you know, the beginning of your poster.

123
00:10:35,868 --> 00:10:42,288
Um, make sure they can understand it, though some of our research questions are get pretty deep and involved and scientific.

124
00:10:42,498 --> 00:10:46,118
And remember your audience. They may not be familiar with your content.

125
00:10:46,128 --> 00:10:50,238
So make sure it's like, you know, layperson understandable.

126
00:10:50,628 --> 00:10:55,908
Um, maybe having an icebreaker or ask them a question to bring them in.

127
00:10:56,178 --> 00:10:58,728
Uh, having a back up plan is a great idea.

128
00:10:58,878 --> 00:11:07,278
So, um, you know, if it's a paper poster, that's usually pretty easy to handle if it's a recorded presentation or a digital presentation.

129
00:11:07,518 --> 00:11:10,548
Have it saved in multiple locations. Have it saved in the cloud.

130
00:11:10,968 --> 00:11:17,418
Um, one time I had you, I was presenting at a conference, and it was an educational technology conference.

131
00:11:17,778 --> 00:11:22,598
They were supposed to have Wi-Fi. Um, I get there and there's no Wi-Fi.

132
00:11:22,608 --> 00:11:27,828
And so the part of my presentation was really to demonstrate this online tool.

133
00:11:28,428 --> 00:11:36,648
But what I had done is I had saved an MP4 locally on my computer of me doing that exact same demo.

134
00:11:37,278 --> 00:11:44,928
So I was able to save my presentation by bringing up my prerecorded mp4 file locally on my computer,

135
00:11:45,258 --> 00:11:49,488
and then just muting it and talking over my own demo.

136
00:11:50,028 --> 00:11:53,578
So I was able to still demonstrate the tool, so that really saved me.

137
00:11:53,658 --> 00:11:58,307
So doing things like that can really help you having a backup link or something

138
00:11:58,308 --> 00:12:01,938
where you can send people to people can go to it on their own computers.

139
00:12:01,938 --> 00:12:05,748
I've had to do that before too, when a screen didn't work. I had to say, okay.

140
00:12:05,948 --> 00:12:10,628
Go. Everybody go to my presentation. And now we're going to go to the next slide.

141
00:12:10,658 --> 00:12:15,698
You know so you sometimes you got to do what you got to do. So help yourself set yourself up for success.

142
00:12:16,148 --> 00:12:21,967
Um when you're speaking try to speak with a conversational but not too informal style.

143
00:12:21,968 --> 00:12:30,998
People respond to that pretty well. If you're way too monotone and like trying to be Uber formal, then people don't respond to that as well.

144
00:12:31,028 --> 00:12:34,478
They'll have to now. So be conversational. Be interesting.

145
00:12:34,778 --> 00:12:39,458
Most of us talk too fast when we're presenting because we might be nervous trying to get through it.

146
00:12:39,938 --> 00:12:41,377
So remember to take your time.

147
00:12:41,378 --> 00:12:49,628
You might feel like you're going so slow, but to the other person they are processing what you're saying, so it's really not slow for them.

148
00:12:49,628 --> 00:12:54,818
So um, being happy and positive, if you get sent to a conference and told you you have to be there,

149
00:12:54,818 --> 00:12:58,268
then act like you're happy to be there and that you want to do it.

150
00:12:58,628 --> 00:13:04,268
Um, also at the end of your presentation, have a clear ending like, thank you for coming to my presentation.

151
00:13:04,598 --> 00:13:09,008
So, uh, something that helps people not awkwardly try to figure out when you're actually done,

152
00:13:09,398 --> 00:13:14,168
um, have a call to action maybe, or a link to more information.

153
00:13:14,168 --> 00:13:17,278
You know, say you can find more information here. Thank you for coming.

154
00:13:17,288 --> 00:13:25,118
Something like that. Um, the career center has some good resources, too, for these types of things like interviews and stuff like that.

155
00:13:25,238 --> 00:13:30,368
It's a very, very similar sort of format. Um, so that's that's another link to that might be helpful.

156
00:13:31,418 --> 00:13:38,497
Something else you guys might be interested in is that you can also submit instead of like a entire paper poster.

157
00:13:38,498 --> 00:13:44,557
There is such a thing as a visual abstract. And this is something that could be created in something like Adobe.

158
00:13:44,558 --> 00:13:49,118
Either Creative Cloud app like illustrator, for example, would be good for this one,

159
00:13:49,118 --> 00:13:54,697
but even Adobe Express, you would be able to create something like this drag and drop interface.

160
00:13:54,698 --> 00:14:04,057
Easy to use. Um, this is actually, you know, a, uh, an official submission of, uh, research is Visual Abstracts.

161
00:14:04,058 --> 00:14:06,547
So you may not have realized that this thing kind of exists.

162
00:14:06,548 --> 00:14:15,218
It's another way you can get research, uh, articles submitted is, is, you know, through this visual abstract of your research.

163
00:14:15,218 --> 00:14:20,678
So anyway, there's more links here to that information. We're not going to focus on that necessarily today.

164
00:14:20,678 --> 00:14:26,678
But just so you're aware that that's a thing and it's available and it is suitable, which is really cool.

165
00:14:27,998 --> 00:14:34,928
So contest example. So if you get an opportunity to participate in a contest, that is a great thing to do.

166
00:14:35,318 --> 00:14:40,268
Um, even if you don't win, which if you do in a lot of times there's cash prizes.

167
00:14:40,688 --> 00:14:45,368
Um, even if you don't win, it's a great experience. You can showcase that experience.

168
00:14:45,368 --> 00:14:50,608
You can put that on your resume that you participated. So there's all kinds of different contests.

169
00:14:50,618 --> 00:14:56,538
Look for those and try to participate when you can. Oh, something else about the contests.

170
00:14:56,558 --> 00:15:01,838
Sometimes you can go to the contest website and see what the past winners were.

171
00:15:02,018 --> 00:15:06,548
That way you get kind of an idea of what they're looking for or what was interesting to the judges.

172
00:15:06,878 --> 00:15:10,268
Um, and sometimes they'll put even like descriptions.

173
00:15:10,628 --> 00:15:13,938
Um, they may also have a rubric that they're going to grade you with.

174
00:15:13,958 --> 00:15:19,718
So you could like, customize your poster to that rubric. So just look for those little helper things as you can.

175
00:15:20,408 --> 00:15:27,518
Let's look at some examples of some posters. So this is kind of like a typical very simple research poster.

176
00:15:27,878 --> 00:15:31,298
Um, this is very basic. This would be pretty easy to accomplish.

177
00:15:31,298 --> 00:15:35,468
This one was created in PowerPoint. Um, you can do things in PowerPoint,

178
00:15:35,468 --> 00:15:44,108
like create these headers and sub headers and create one the way you want with the colors and the font and the and the text.

179
00:15:44,378 --> 00:15:47,378
And then copy and paste it so that stays consistent.

180
00:15:47,378 --> 00:15:51,188
So you can do things like that to help you these rounded corners.

181
00:15:51,368 --> 00:15:54,637
People like to look at the rounded corners more than hard edges.

182
00:15:54,638 --> 00:15:59,168
That's why all of your apps have rounded corners. It's esthetically pleasing.

183
00:15:59,588 --> 00:16:01,908
Um, so that's another little tip. Uh oh.

184
00:16:01,988 --> 00:16:09,758
Using um, numbered lists and bullet points can be very helpful, especially if you're explaining some sort of process.

185
00:16:10,148 --> 00:16:13,418
Um, tables need to be simple and brief.

186
00:16:13,958 --> 00:16:17,798
Just pick out what's most important about your data and put that in.

187
00:16:17,828 --> 00:16:22,988
Maybe it's that surprising statistic. Or it's a quick comparison between two things or three things.

188
00:16:23,708 --> 00:16:26,768
And notice the sections this person's selected.

189
00:16:26,798 --> 00:16:33,458
Basically the purpose, the methods, the results, the background of the information a little some of the data that was came out.

190
00:16:33,788 --> 00:16:39,278
And what are the future plans. So a just a few basic categories is what they selected.

191
00:16:40,088 --> 00:16:43,828
Here is Doctor Spears. That's a little bit more blown up. So you can get an idea.

192
00:16:43,838 --> 00:16:48,938
This is a less formal poster. Um, they did have certain requirements.

193
00:16:48,938 --> 00:16:53,528
So he did have to have like team research focus, key team resources and key opportunities,

194
00:16:53,528 --> 00:16:59,888
because the point was to find other researchers who could partner with um on his areas of interest for grants.

195
00:17:00,098 --> 00:17:05,468
And then these were grant opportunities that might be, uh, that they could maybe collaborate on.

196
00:17:06,128 --> 00:17:13,568
And then notice what we've done here, though. So the images that we have here that indicate sort of his team research focuses, we um,

197
00:17:13,568 --> 00:17:20,378
these are captioned even though like probably other horticulture researchers would know what those ants were.

198
00:17:20,528 --> 00:17:24,308
Don't ever assume like just go ahead and caption things.

199
00:17:24,638 --> 00:17:33,818
Even if you think it's obvious, because the faster and the the the better, you can help the person, uh, get through your content of your poster.

200
00:17:33,818 --> 00:17:36,968
The easier that is, the better your interaction will be.

201
00:17:37,268 --> 00:17:42,278
So help them get through your content by putting, uh, captions in there is very helpful.

202
00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:49,628
Um, these are just Creative Commons images. You guys have access to Adobe Stock images, which are high resolution and high quality.

203
00:17:49,958 --> 00:17:58,028
Um, so those would be great for you to use. You can also just use now, uh, PowerPoint has come a long way in having a lot better,

204
00:17:58,298 --> 00:18:02,678
uh, stock images that are available right inside PowerPoint as well as icons.

205
00:18:02,948 --> 00:18:06,428
Um, so there's better options. Now, when this was created, not so much.

206
00:18:06,728 --> 00:18:13,207
Notice we did these rounded, uh, uh, boxes, created one the size we wanted and copied and pasted it.

207
00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:14,258
So it will be all the same.

208
00:18:14,768 --> 00:18:22,508
And then, uh, we just picked some images that would help him talk about the black belt of Alabama, why he should be a good person to partner with.

209
00:18:23,048 --> 00:18:26,098
And then we italicize the caption of his photo.

210
00:18:26,108 --> 00:18:29,798
That's a great way to indicate something is different about that caption.

211
00:18:30,248 --> 00:18:35,408
Um, so that people would be like, oh, yeah, it's that guy or whatever. Um, so that's just a quick example.

212
00:18:36,378 --> 00:18:41,808
Conferences are often crowded, so sometimes you have to do things to help yourself stand out.

213
00:18:42,108 --> 00:18:48,707
Uh, if you have an opportunity to maybe bring a tablet along and show somebody if that's allowed, sometimes it's not allowed.

214
00:18:48,708 --> 00:18:56,658
So just check or, uh, QR code or extra handouts or something like that or something tactile that they can interact with.

215
00:18:56,658 --> 00:19:02,207
I've seen some conferences have like I saw a forestry one one time where they had, you know,

216
00:19:02,208 --> 00:19:08,838
like different types of bark that people could like, interact with because that's what part of what they were studying or something like that.

217
00:19:09,078 --> 00:19:15,198
So if you're allowed to do something sort of, you know, tactile like that, then that is can be very inviting.

218
00:19:15,798 --> 00:19:27,078
This one was a literature class. And what they did here in this one on the right is they used Photoshop and they took a photo of,

219
00:19:27,408 --> 00:19:33,048
uh, an illustration of one of the stories they were studying of like medieval stories or whatever,

220
00:19:33,408 --> 00:19:44,988
and superimposed some of the characters from the illustration into the modern day setting, using the photograph of wherever that tale took place.

221
00:19:45,318 --> 00:19:48,888
So that was kind of a cool thing and, you know, catches your attention. You're like, wait, what?

222
00:19:48,918 --> 00:19:54,497
There's a wizard on the beach. Like, what is that about? And then you're like, oh, this is the actual location where the story took place.

223
00:19:54,498 --> 00:20:00,288
Would not be interesting to kind of think about in my head about I can kind of, you know, envision the story differently.

224
00:20:01,348 --> 00:20:07,498
Other typical examples. This is a large typical science, uh, conference.

225
00:20:08,008 --> 00:20:13,588
Notice the use of about 3 to 5 colors, columns and rows.

226
00:20:13,768 --> 00:20:18,078
Typically, 3 to 4 columns are rows. If that's what you have to do, then do that.

227
00:20:18,088 --> 00:20:24,448
Do whatever the requirements say. But if you can be more creative, like this one here on the right,

228
00:20:24,448 --> 00:20:31,857
there is you could do this in something like illustrator or even Adobe Express if you did it in pieces, and this one is awfully big.

229
00:20:31,858 --> 00:20:37,258
This would be way bigger than you would need, but you could do something like this and make it more infographic style.

230
00:20:37,708 --> 00:20:43,648
Um, notice is divided into thirds. People understand things divided into thirds, which is really helpful.

231
00:20:44,648 --> 00:20:48,248
Other examples. If you use images of people.

232
00:20:48,518 --> 00:20:53,528
Make sure you have permission to use those images. One way around this is to use yourself.

233
00:20:54,038 --> 00:20:55,568
Have somebody take a picture of yourself.

234
00:20:55,568 --> 00:21:03,698
You can give yourself permission, um, or get written permission from those people just to republish, you know, uh, that content and all of that.

235
00:21:03,698 --> 00:21:07,748
But pictures of people attract people's attention very quickly.

236
00:21:07,898 --> 00:21:13,268
So, um, over here on the right, let's take a second and look at this poster.

237
00:21:13,268 --> 00:21:19,897
Even though we may not want to, it's pretty bad. What are some things and those of you who are online, feel free to post in the chat.

238
00:21:19,898 --> 00:21:23,468
What are some things you notice about this poster here on the right?

239
00:21:23,978 --> 00:21:28,448
Um, that are maybe not good as far as poster design?

240
00:21:31,208 --> 00:21:36,928
And if you're in person, you can answer to. The font is really small.

241
00:21:37,318 --> 00:21:43,388
One of our in-person people said, yeah, they have some real issues with some fonts here.

242
00:21:43,408 --> 00:21:47,698
That is a big problem. Anybody online? What's something that you notice about this poster?

243
00:21:47,698 --> 00:21:51,488
Those bad. It's not very colorful. That's a good point.

244
00:21:51,508 --> 00:21:58,768
They have sort of one colored image here. But as far as like using color throughout well not so good.

245
00:21:59,008 --> 00:22:00,433
Good point. It's like a good mix for colors.

246
00:22:05,003 --> 00:22:08,243
Typically about 3 to 5 colors at the most.

247
00:22:08,513 --> 00:22:12,263
And if you're not sure, you can just go with the auburn colors in, you know, because you know,

248
00:22:12,263 --> 00:22:15,833
they're going to go well together and you're probably putting the Auburn logo on there anyway.

249
00:22:16,193 --> 00:22:19,283
And we'll get a little bit more into colors here in just a minute.

250
00:22:19,283 --> 00:22:27,593
But um, that's a good that's a good point. Um, also, if you've noticed, they've mixed and matched some stuff here too.

251
00:22:27,603 --> 00:22:31,783
There's numbered lists. And then also here's another very bad thing.

252
00:22:31,793 --> 00:22:36,952
A bunch of this is centered justified. And people do not like to read center justified.

253
00:22:36,953 --> 00:22:44,273
It's difficult. They always want left justified. Center justified is okay if it's brief like these titles, that's okay.

254
00:22:44,483 --> 00:22:49,493
But not text that you want people to read and not justified either.

255
00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:54,683
This one is justified to both sides. And notice these rivers of of of space.

256
00:22:55,043 --> 00:23:00,323
It's horrible to look at and nobody wants to look at that. So you've identified a few things that is bad.

257
00:23:00,893 --> 00:23:06,233
This table is also a bit too small as well. The one good thing they did was include a little color in this table.

258
00:23:06,233 --> 00:23:09,923
That does just make it more readable, having like alternating colors.

259
00:23:09,923 --> 00:23:13,613
You can do that with a gray as well. Um, that is helpful.

260
00:23:13,613 --> 00:23:16,913
But lot not so not so good with that poster.

261
00:23:18,083 --> 00:23:21,293
All right. Let's see what else. Here are some other examples.

262
00:23:21,923 --> 00:23:25,183
So here's an example of how somebody use color.

263
00:23:25,193 --> 00:23:28,642
Well I would say so. They've got the blue and the yellow.

264
00:23:28,643 --> 00:23:31,913
And it's kind of used throughout. This text is probably a little too small.

265
00:23:32,303 --> 00:23:34,792
But what I liked about this one was some of the graphics.

266
00:23:34,793 --> 00:23:41,243
They have these nice looking sort of 3D charts, you know, that could be done in something like PowerPoint or illustrator.

267
00:23:41,633 --> 00:23:48,022
Um, also, these icons are very helpful for clearly identifying, oh, they're talking about transportation.

268
00:23:48,023 --> 00:23:53,723
This is people walking. This is bus, this is car. This is like train or maybe electric bus or whatever it is.

269
00:23:54,173 --> 00:23:57,713
And then, um, you know, who knows what that is. And more people walking.

270
00:23:57,713 --> 00:24:02,303
This is somebody biking, I think. Yeah. So, um, icons are very helpful.

271
00:24:03,143 --> 00:24:08,663
Um, here's an example. If you get a chance to be a little bit more creative, they used graphic novel style.

272
00:24:09,143 --> 00:24:17,963
So like graphic novel or cartoon style to express something which in this particular area of work, like nursing, uh,

273
00:24:17,963 --> 00:24:24,652
makes sense because a lot of times that's how they have to express things to their patients is through maybe a story, um,

274
00:24:24,653 --> 00:24:31,913
or some sort of graphical illustrative representation of what's going on or what they need to do, you know,

275
00:24:31,913 --> 00:24:37,883
to get ready to leave the hospital or what's going on with, you know, this particular saying that they have or whatever it is.

276
00:24:38,303 --> 00:24:41,963
Um, then that's kind of interesting. So I thought that was pretty clever.

277
00:24:43,143 --> 00:24:49,623
Now, if you get a chance to participate in sort of a more progressive scientific poster conference, then do so.

278
00:24:49,623 --> 00:24:53,343
Here is one that some people are trying to move towards.

279
00:24:53,733 --> 00:25:00,573
Um, is this more simplified? Uh, scientific research poster, um, format.

280
00:25:00,783 --> 00:25:03,722
So instead of some, a lot of people will say, okay,

281
00:25:03,723 --> 00:25:09,123
why should I come up with a whole poster that's got 3 to 4 columns and very organized information and text?

282
00:25:09,513 --> 00:25:18,123
If most of the time somebody just comes up and reads my title and that's it, so why should I put in the effort, right?

283
00:25:18,423 --> 00:25:28,563
So because of that, there's sort of a, uh, a new effort to kind of redesign the scientific poster and something like this could be a solution.

284
00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:34,373
So you just say, what's the most important statement? The most important statement from your research could be your findings.

285
00:25:34,383 --> 00:25:37,413
It could also be something else. It could be something that you didn't find.

286
00:25:37,773 --> 00:25:42,413
It could be the background of the, you know, uh, setup of the study.

287
00:25:42,423 --> 00:25:50,733
It could be something else entirely. It could be a quote that came out of, you know, your participants or something like that.

288
00:25:51,063 --> 00:25:56,853
And then over here, you just choose maybe three small categories of stuff with 3 or 4 things each.

289
00:25:57,003 --> 00:25:59,313
Whatever's most important. Were the methods important?

290
00:25:59,823 --> 00:26:05,673
Uh, was the background important was who you were working with important, the community or whatever the participants.

291
00:26:06,153 --> 00:26:12,273
And then their color coded. So if it was, uh, theory, then it was color coded yellow.

292
00:26:12,513 --> 00:26:17,043
And so if you're in a conference, you could very easily say, oh, all the theory people are over here,

293
00:26:17,043 --> 00:26:20,663
all the practice people are over here, you know, that sort of thing.

294
00:26:20,673 --> 00:26:22,623
Teaching and learning. People are over here.

295
00:26:23,013 --> 00:26:31,593
Um, that could really help, you know, people find each other more easily to in those big poster conference calls and then a QR code, more information.

296
00:26:31,983 --> 00:26:35,343
So maybe that leads to a video of you presenting your poster.

297
00:26:35,353 --> 00:26:42,002
Maybe that leads to, um, a website where you've got all the rest of the information very clearly put.

298
00:26:42,003 --> 00:26:43,742
So this is an idea too.

299
00:26:43,743 --> 00:26:50,163
If you get a chance to participate in something more forward thinking like this, or if the requirements allow you to, then that's good to do.

300
00:26:50,883 --> 00:26:57,783
Obviously this is a bad example. Lots of bad choice choices here that we that we already kind of noticed, right?

301
00:26:58,203 --> 00:27:04,143
Way too much text. You cannot just take your research paper and copy and paste it onto a poster.

302
00:27:04,713 --> 00:27:14,252
Okay. It's it's you have to be more involved with the content and you have to really kind of figure out what were maybe the ten major

303
00:27:14,253 --> 00:27:21,813
things or five major things that are really important about what you want to convey and then work to convey those things,

304
00:27:22,053 --> 00:27:32,012
okay, rather than just copy and paste. Um, also putting your, um, references on another sheet that you have a QR code, you know, to link to that.

305
00:27:32,013 --> 00:27:36,033
That's another way you can save a lot of space, um, on your presentation as well.

306
00:27:36,873 --> 00:27:44,853
So how do we avoid doing bad posters? Well, one way that we avoid doing bad posters is to do a good job planning our poster.

307
00:27:45,153 --> 00:27:50,703
So we don't just sit down and be like, I'm going to make a poster today. We have to kind of do some things to kind of get ourselves ready to do that.

308
00:27:50,703 --> 00:27:53,312
So again, refer to the requirements.

309
00:27:53,313 --> 00:28:04,113
If you can create a folder, whether it's on your laptop or in one drive or box where you put all of the information involved in your poster.

310
00:28:04,113 --> 00:28:09,903
So maybe you put the, uh, the poster conference requirements info in there.

311
00:28:09,993 --> 00:28:16,203
We put a stick a word document in there. So you remind yourself what the sizing is and what the requirements are.

312
00:28:16,203 --> 00:28:21,693
All of when's it do all that kind of stuff. Um, and then have maybe a planning sheet.

313
00:28:22,023 --> 00:28:25,742
Uh, we have sample planning sheets, uh, that you're welcome to access.

314
00:28:25,743 --> 00:28:28,683
They just have a little light grid on them, uh,

315
00:28:28,683 --> 00:28:34,502
divided into threes and fours so that you can literally just kind of sketch out what you want on each site.

316
00:28:34,503 --> 00:28:40,803
You can do this on your own to just with a piece of paper, but kind of divided into thirds or, uh, fourths.

317
00:28:41,703 --> 00:28:48,003
Um, so you have an idea of the spacing and what you want to put where, and then you can just kind of make notes about what you want to put.

318
00:28:48,543 --> 00:28:52,293
Um, but some key elements include the typical sizes.

319
00:28:52,323 --> 00:28:57,903
These are some examples of some typical sizes. You're also typically going to have your title at the top.

320
00:28:58,883 --> 00:29:03,893
Maybe a logo. Um, your contact information, some images, some text.

321
00:29:04,133 --> 00:29:08,513
Keep in mind that people read left to right and top to bottom.

322
00:29:08,693 --> 00:29:13,463
So kind of what you want them to key in on. Should kind of be top left.

323
00:29:13,763 --> 00:29:17,453
You know, so that's how they're going to read your post or so kind of think about it that way.

324
00:29:18,233 --> 00:29:22,613
There should be maybe 3 or 4 columns. Using a grid format is helpful.

325
00:29:22,643 --> 00:29:26,153
People like to see grids. It helps organize the information.

326
00:29:26,303 --> 00:29:30,142
They don't have to be strict, but they you know, you do need to have some symmetry,

327
00:29:30,143 --> 00:29:36,713
maybe, um, and some white space, like don't try to cram your poster full.

328
00:29:36,923 --> 00:29:40,403
Um, over the entire space because people will not be able to read it all.

329
00:29:40,633 --> 00:29:47,123
It'll be too much for them to look at. So you want to have some white space in there, some blank space, essentially, and follow a natural eye flow.

330
00:29:47,453 --> 00:29:52,403
I've seen other posters before where they did kind of a Chutes and Ladders style,

331
00:29:52,673 --> 00:29:56,603
where it was a process that they had to explain, and it had nine steps.

332
00:29:56,933 --> 00:30:07,193
So they had sort of like this graphic that's kind of snaked across the image, and it would go one, two, (345) 678-9789 at the end.

333
00:30:07,493 --> 00:30:12,413
And then sort of the conclusion. So it kind of like wound you through like you were following the Chutes and Ladders.

334
00:30:12,413 --> 00:30:15,803
So that was kind of a neat style. Um, that I saw. That was pretty cool.

335
00:30:17,023 --> 00:30:20,523
So, but here are some common research poster sections.

336
00:30:20,533 --> 00:30:28,003
If you don't quite know where to start with some of your content, this is kind of a good place to start if you have to do a typical research poster.

337
00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:33,553
Um, these would essentially line up with the three columns that you might put on your poster.

338
00:30:34,063 --> 00:30:38,413
So, um, on the left column you would probably have things like the introduction,

339
00:30:38,413 --> 00:30:42,613
maybe a condensed abstract, maybe the background, maybe the hypothesis.

340
00:30:42,793 --> 00:30:47,023
You're probably not going to be able to fit all of these on your poster.

341
00:30:47,083 --> 00:30:51,043
So what might work is select a few of them.

342
00:30:51,463 --> 00:30:55,843
And then that's how you kind of constructor poster. So you can kind of use this as like a framework.

343
00:30:56,443 --> 00:31:02,863
Like maybe you think, oh, I'm going to put the introduction and then I'm going to put the background in my hypothesis.

344
00:31:02,863 --> 00:31:08,413
Those are the three. And then maybe the middle one. You're going to put the materials the methodology and the results.

345
00:31:08,803 --> 00:31:13,513
And then maybe for the uh right side column, you choose to do the conclusion,

346
00:31:13,903 --> 00:31:22,873
your recommendations and make sure your contact information and stuff, and maybe a QR code is down there to more info or something like that.

347
00:31:23,563 --> 00:31:29,143
So this can be sort of a nice framework if you need to, um, a couple of things to help you with planning.

348
00:31:29,413 --> 00:31:34,963
So the Office of University Writing also does a great job with assisting with poster,

349
00:31:35,263 --> 00:31:39,072
uh, creation, and they especially understand the writing side of it.

350
00:31:39,073 --> 00:31:45,293
So if you have this big research paper and you're like, I have no idea kind of where to start with,

351
00:31:45,293 --> 00:31:48,342
take extracting this information and creating a poster.

352
00:31:48,343 --> 00:31:52,963
They are an excellent resource. The better at the writing pieces of it than we are.

353
00:31:52,993 --> 00:31:56,923
We're better. We're better at the designing, making it look pretty type resources.

354
00:31:57,343 --> 00:32:01,963
Um, but they you can, uh, schedule a time with their consultants and they can help you with that.

355
00:32:02,353 --> 00:32:07,813
And they will also help you come up with a good title, since most people just look at the title, that would be important.

356
00:32:08,533 --> 00:32:19,453
Also, if you didn't know it, all of you have access to Microsoft Copilot, which provides you with ChatGPT for for free.

357
00:32:19,873 --> 00:32:24,913
And it's a protected instance, so it's not going to train on any information that you give it,

358
00:32:25,393 --> 00:32:28,723
and it's not going to remember your conversations or anything like that.

359
00:32:29,143 --> 00:32:33,253
So what you could do is use copilot to help you with that.

360
00:32:33,253 --> 00:32:38,983
If you have this big paragraph and you're trying to pare it down to maybe three key points,

361
00:32:39,403 --> 00:32:45,793
feed it into copilot and say, copilot, can you help me take this paragraph and turn it into,

362
00:32:46,183 --> 00:32:54,312
uh, three different bullet points that explain the key, uh, pieces of information from this paragraph, and it will do it for you.

363
00:32:54,313 --> 00:32:57,883
And then you can sort of tweak it. Always check it though, right?

364
00:32:57,883 --> 00:33:01,753
Make sure it's saying what you want it to say. Make sure it sounds like you.

365
00:33:02,143 --> 00:33:13,213
But if you're having trouble kind of distilling the information, or if part of your poster is to understand the content of some specific article,

366
00:33:13,393 --> 00:33:18,223
you can feed it that article, you can upload a PDF and then ask it to summarize it for you.

367
00:33:18,673 --> 00:33:25,033
Um, you can even do a mockup of an image if you want, like an AI image, to give you some ideas.

368
00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:29,113
You know, it won't do your entire poster for you, right? But it'll give you an image.

369
00:33:29,413 --> 00:33:33,103
Uh, fireflies can be better for image creation because it's commercial safe.

370
00:33:33,193 --> 00:33:38,832
Uh, copilot uses Dall-E three, which is technically violates copyright, so it wouldn't be good to use for that.

371
00:33:38,833 --> 00:33:46,963
But Firefly would be okay to use for that anyway. Copilot because it's a large language model, uh, could assist you with some of the language pieces.

372
00:33:47,203 --> 00:33:52,003
Okay, so that's an option to, uh, you just sign into that using your Auburn login.

373
00:33:52,423 --> 00:33:55,693
Uh, your Microsoft is through Microsoft, your Microsoft account.

374
00:33:56,023 --> 00:34:00,553
So, uh, and the writing center also has resources for using AI as well.

375
00:34:00,553 --> 00:34:03,823
So you can check that out. All right. Gathering your materials.

376
00:34:04,183 --> 00:34:10,243
This is half the battle. Like get organized. Have a one driver a box folder or a folder on your computer.

377
00:34:10,693 --> 00:34:15,312
Um, decide what what text you want to use. Always use a sans serif font.

378
00:34:15,313 --> 00:34:21,643
The fonts that don't have the little tails on the end, like Times New Roman does, Ariel and Helvetica don't.

379
00:34:21,793 --> 00:34:25,363
It's easier for people to read. So you want to use a sans serif font?

380
00:34:25,843 --> 00:34:31,603
Uh, you can use bold or italics or underline to help you make points like the font we're using right now on the screen.

381
00:34:31,603 --> 00:34:34,603
And also for screens is sans serif.

382
00:34:34,603 --> 00:34:38,832
Okay. Um, you could use a color picker. You talked about colors earlier.

383
00:34:38,833 --> 00:34:43,603
If you had a specific image that you wanted to use in your in your presentation,

384
00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:49,843
you could use a color picker and select the color from the image and use that for your text.

385
00:34:50,053 --> 00:34:57,343
So that could be a way to get colors. Um, and then also if you really want the specific Auburn colors, they're listed here.

386
00:34:57,733 --> 00:35:01,183
And uh, faculty and staff have access to the brand center.

387
00:35:01,183 --> 00:35:05,803
You can get your advisor to like, give you a logo or whatever. So that's that's an option to.

388
00:35:06,733 --> 00:35:12,063
Gathering your materials. Get images. You have access to stock images within PowerPoint.

389
00:35:12,073 --> 00:35:17,023
Also, you get Adobe stock, which is great. You could create your own images using your own cameras.

390
00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:24,283
Make sure though, if you're taking pictures of like a lab or something, that you have permission to share those pictures.

391
00:35:24,283 --> 00:35:28,123
So just double check with like your advisor or whoever you need to check with.

392
00:35:28,603 --> 00:35:32,472
Um, or make sure you have high resolution images.

393
00:35:32,473 --> 00:35:36,553
That's very important. Use symbols or icons whenever you can.

394
00:35:36,553 --> 00:35:41,822
Keep charts and tables very, very simple. And then what software should we use?

395
00:35:41,823 --> 00:35:49,383
And after this we're going to pop into some software. But Adobe Express can now print up to 48in by 48in, which is really cool.

396
00:35:49,623 --> 00:35:55,683
So you can use Adobe Express web based drag and drop interface to create a whole research poster.

397
00:35:56,073 --> 00:35:59,493
Um, if you wanted to, you would just download this PDF and get it printed.

398
00:35:59,943 --> 00:36:03,173
There's also some templates which are fun to use in there.

399
00:36:03,183 --> 00:36:08,313
You might have to resize the template, but there are some like research and timeline ideas, stuff like that.

400
00:36:08,883 --> 00:36:12,673
Um, also you have access to the rest of Adobe Creative Cloud too.

401
00:36:12,693 --> 00:36:18,543
If you wanted to use that, if you want to use PowerPoint because you're already familiar with it and you're comfortable with it,

402
00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:22,533
or maybe somebody gave you a PowerPoint template to use, you could use that.

403
00:36:23,013 --> 00:36:27,933
You just have to set up the slide size first. And this shows you exactly how to do that.

404
00:36:28,473 --> 00:36:33,843
Um, I recommend you use the local version of PowerPoint, not the online version, because you get more formatting.

405
00:36:34,113 --> 00:36:42,873
There's some science poster templates here. Um, you could also use Copilot to kind of help you wordsmith as you go, or add it down to bullet points.

406
00:36:43,263 --> 00:36:50,283
Um, and you can say, I'm presenting at a conference, you know, at this particular conference, what would be good to put in here, that sort of thing.

407
00:36:50,673 --> 00:36:53,853
And then when you're done, you can get it printed at the NRC.

408
00:36:53,863 --> 00:36:56,913
There's a link to the printing and all of that there as well.

409
00:36:57,693 --> 00:37:01,472
Okay. Um, other things that tend to come up in PowerPoint.

410
00:37:01,473 --> 00:37:07,833
This is a little tip if you, uh, use high resolution images in your PowerPoint, but they still look fuzzy.

411
00:37:08,343 --> 00:37:14,903
Then go to your PowerPoint settings and make sure that that PowerPoint is not set to automatically compress your images.

412
00:37:14,913 --> 00:37:20,642
Sometimes it is. So if you want it, because PowerPoint is really meant for digital display, not printing.

413
00:37:20,643 --> 00:37:24,603
So that's why it defaults to that at first. Um, so that's a little tip there.

414
00:37:25,413 --> 00:37:29,873
And then to kind of, uh, conclude or kind of bring us back together to our idea,

415
00:37:29,883 --> 00:37:34,023
you want to tell your story, you want it to be visually engaging, meet the requirements.

416
00:37:34,503 --> 00:37:38,313
Use the rule of thirds to help you have some whitespace in there.

417
00:37:38,553 --> 00:37:42,183
Understand that there's a natural eye flow and things need to be aligned.

418
00:37:42,333 --> 00:37:47,343
Um, use copy paste to keep your your sizing consistent, your formatting consistent,

419
00:37:47,343 --> 00:37:54,152
and make important information stand out either by size of text or color, um, or shapes.

420
00:37:54,153 --> 00:37:59,222
You know, there's lots of ways to do that. And then finally, there's a little guide here, too.

421
00:37:59,223 --> 00:38:05,823
If you're not sure what size point font your things should be, this these are minimums.

422
00:38:06,003 --> 00:38:13,953
Minimum of 85 point for the title, 56 for the author, headings 36 and then uh, body text to 24.

423
00:38:13,953 --> 00:38:18,243
Nothing lower than 24, except maybe 18. Could be the captioning.

424
00:38:18,693 --> 00:38:25,563
Um, if you follow those guidelines, somebody can read your text from six feet away, which is kind of what you want when you're doing a poster.

425
00:38:26,853 --> 00:38:30,093
Okay. So we can look at some examples here in just a second.

426
00:38:30,633 --> 00:38:33,902
That's a little bit of peek of InDesign, but I can show you that to you.

427
00:38:33,903 --> 00:38:39,963
There's some additional resources here. Here's the link to the Adobe Consultants IRC Adobe.

428
00:38:40,263 --> 00:38:46,683
They're available, um, in person and via zoom, so you can pop in and ask questions about Adobe Express.

429
00:38:46,713 --> 00:38:48,873
Um, they can all help you with express and all of that.

430
00:38:49,623 --> 00:38:57,003
Also, if you don't have a, uh, a good QR code or URL shortener to use, you all have access to RB,

431
00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:04,683
and the advantage to using the RB shortener to make your QR code in your short URL is that it'll give you statistics.

432
00:39:04,953 --> 00:39:08,763
So it'll say, how many times did this? Did this get, um, loaded?

433
00:39:09,003 --> 00:39:13,113
Did somebody access this? And we do additional workshops on a Creative Cloud.

434
00:39:13,113 --> 00:39:17,822
We also have all of our workshops recorded on our instructional content page.

435
00:39:17,823 --> 00:39:24,243
So if you wanted to learn Photoshop because you want to do a really custom image for your poster, you could go to our instruction page,

436
00:39:24,603 --> 00:39:32,393
uh, access the Getting started in Photoshop, uh, one hour recording, and you would be off to the races and know how to do a layer mask.

437
00:39:32,403 --> 00:39:36,513
Know how to combine images, know how to, you know, remove parts of an image.

438
00:39:36,693 --> 00:39:41,613
And you can also do a lot of that in Adobe Express too. Anyway. So yeah, okay.

439
00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:47,643
So what we're going to do next is check out some of the raw files just real quick here.

440
00:39:48,423 --> 00:39:52,743
And I want to first show you one that was made in PowerPoint. That will happen to express.

441
00:39:52,803 --> 00:40:00,393
Um, next is what we will do. And if you guys have questions online, feel free to pop into the chat, um, or comments or anything like that.

442
00:40:01,353 --> 00:40:09,633
Uh, we find the poster workshop files and then we're going to look at not this one, it is going to be this one.

443
00:40:10,883 --> 00:40:14,752
Okay, so here is the Doctor Spears one that we saw.

444
00:40:14,753 --> 00:40:21,983
And this is like the actual file. So if you can is you can see, um, in order to basically set this up.

445
00:40:22,463 --> 00:40:29,093
Um, then what we do is we go under design and we set the background, we want the slide size.

446
00:40:29,423 --> 00:40:35,183
And then you just choose custom slide size and then enter what uh dimensions you need.

447
00:40:35,693 --> 00:40:41,392
Um, but notice like when we click on these, uh, we just added a quick little, uh, drop shadow to them.

448
00:40:41,393 --> 00:40:45,893
You can do a lots of features using the, um, local version of PowerPoint.

449
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:50,833
And notice these are just, you know, text boxes. And we rounded the edges a little bit.

450
00:40:50,843 --> 00:40:54,863
You can do that by clicking that little yellow piece there and just dragging it.

451
00:40:55,313 --> 00:41:01,733
We added a border here to this one. Uh you can do some things under the Picture Format toolbar you may not be aware of.

452
00:41:01,733 --> 00:41:07,163
To make these the same, we just make note of what the parameters are and then click over here.

453
00:41:07,163 --> 00:41:11,333
And then just make changes to this parameters and it'll like crop it for you.

454
00:41:11,663 --> 00:41:16,973
Um, so there's some nice things you can do there. This is just a shape with a color that matched the logo.

455
00:41:17,333 --> 00:41:18,263
Um, and that's it.

456
00:41:18,533 --> 00:41:28,793
So to give you an idea of about how much time you should allow, um, we had all of the content, uh, having all of the content for this poster.

457
00:41:28,793 --> 00:41:35,782
So, like, having the images, having the text already and, like, a word document, that's another great thing to do is to do an outline of what?

458
00:41:35,783 --> 00:41:39,773
Maybe some of the content is that you might like to use, having all of the content.

459
00:41:40,223 --> 00:41:44,993
It's probably took maybe about an hour and a half or two hours to put together in PowerPoint.

460
00:41:44,993 --> 00:41:46,793
And this is a pretty simple poster.

461
00:41:47,183 --> 00:41:53,992
Um, so that gives you an idea of kind of about how much time and obviously this person already knows how to use PowerPoint and all of that.

462
00:41:53,993 --> 00:41:59,303
So, um, that's it depends on the timing that you have to put into it and that as well.

463
00:41:59,423 --> 00:42:02,473
Okay. So that is an example of that.

464
00:42:02,483 --> 00:42:12,023
Um, do you want to hop into Adobe Express. And if you have your Adobe ID set up already, you are welcome to hop into that with me.

465
00:42:12,323 --> 00:42:15,533
Or you can also just watch the demo. That's totally fine.

466
00:42:16,193 --> 00:42:24,643
Um, if you don't have your Adobe ID set up yet, you will need to go to adobe.auburn.edu and get signed up.

467
00:42:24,653 --> 00:42:27,533
It's free as long as you're enrolled in at least one course.

468
00:42:28,193 --> 00:42:34,173
And then once you have received your confirmation email, which you'll get in about two hours, then you can log in to Adobe Express.

469
00:42:34,193 --> 00:42:35,363
So I already logged in,

470
00:42:35,723 --> 00:42:42,443
but basically you just log in with your Auburn email and password and choose company or school account and then you'll be signed in.

471
00:42:43,103 --> 00:42:46,732
So from here, if you notice we can just search for things up here.

472
00:42:46,733 --> 00:42:52,073
And there are templates. So we might search templates and we might put research.

473
00:42:53,183 --> 00:42:57,902
And and just see what are some templates we get. There's all kinds of.

474
00:42:57,903 --> 00:43:02,073
And here's one that's really like a poster style already. So that's one.

475
00:43:02,343 --> 00:43:07,953
Now we can favorite it. And it will then be in the Your Stuff folder under favorites.

476
00:43:08,403 --> 00:43:11,883
So you might try that. Um you can make uh favorites.

477
00:43:12,243 --> 00:43:14,733
You can also just click one when you have one.

478
00:43:14,763 --> 00:43:20,063
This one is more infographic style and is more of a long form, but if you liked it, you could still use it.

479
00:43:20,073 --> 00:43:28,413
You just resize it. Um, so look for like kind of what has most of the styles you think you might like and all of that.

480
00:43:28,943 --> 00:43:34,412
So and here's another one about photosynthesis. This might be pretty good for us to use this pretty decent example.

481
00:43:34,413 --> 00:43:38,913
So maybe we'll try that one. So I'm gonna just click it and then click Customize template.

482
00:43:39,333 --> 00:43:43,593
You don't have to do a template. I'm just going to show you that first. And I'll show you how to do a custom one.

483
00:43:44,313 --> 00:43:49,143
Um so from here we will prob the first thing we're going to want to do is resize it.

484
00:43:49,173 --> 00:43:53,763
So this was just a regular like file like a letter size.

485
00:43:54,063 --> 00:44:00,683
So in this case we probably want to change that. Right. So we're probably going to say like maybe 30 by 40.

486
00:44:00,723 --> 00:44:03,843
That's a pretty common size. And then we can hit resize.

487
00:44:04,813 --> 00:44:10,543
And it actually did a pretty good job of not making us have to resize a bunch of stuff on that content.

488
00:44:10,543 --> 00:44:18,433
It just made it tons bigger for us, which is pretty great. Um, and then from here, we just click what it is that we want to make changes to.

489
00:44:19,033 --> 00:44:23,293
And once you have it selected, that over here on the left hand side, you'll get your options.

490
00:44:23,293 --> 00:44:30,253
So you can choose a different font if you wanted to. What's nice is it gives you recommended fonts, which is pretty cool.

491
00:44:30,583 --> 00:44:35,683
And then you could just click one of those. It kind of reads, you know the image and sees what it should put.

492
00:44:36,193 --> 00:44:38,773
Um, this text flow is a new feature.

493
00:44:39,523 --> 00:44:47,913
What this text flow does is it helps you create one text box like this one that would then feed into the next text box.

494
00:44:47,923 --> 00:44:52,093
So like in InDesign. So that's a really nice feature as well.

495
00:44:52,603 --> 00:44:57,523
Um, that's the uh, text flow. If I go back to a text you can see it text flow right here.

496
00:44:57,703 --> 00:45:01,453
So you have like it will say ID number one and number two and they just lead into each other.

497
00:45:01,783 --> 00:45:10,093
There's all kinds of interesting text layouts you can choose. There's even text effects which uses AI to generate, uh, something interesting.

498
00:45:10,273 --> 00:45:19,453
Maybe we'll do just research question because that's shorter. So we can say we want this this text to look like, um, green plants.

499
00:45:20,853 --> 00:45:24,883
Okay. And then we'll hit generate. So this is using Adobe Firefly.

500
00:45:24,903 --> 00:45:30,213
Adobe Firefly is responsibly made AI. It's only trained on Adobe Stock images.

501
00:45:30,663 --> 00:45:34,322
And um, also um just open source images.

502
00:45:34,323 --> 00:45:41,513
So it's royalty free and all of that. And let's maybe zoom in so we can kind of see a little bit better, um, of what it did.

503
00:45:41,523 --> 00:45:47,013
And so that's a way that we can make this font doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.

504
00:45:47,283 --> 00:45:51,423
Even if I like prompted again, it'll be different again.

505
00:45:51,903 --> 00:45:54,123
It's creating new pixels every single time.

506
00:45:54,123 --> 00:45:58,803
So if you really want to stand out, that could be a way to do it right is to use some of these, uh, effects.

507
00:45:59,433 --> 00:46:07,683
Um, so that is a cool thing that you can do. Um, also these icons, um, and then a lot of times they'll be grouped together.

508
00:46:07,683 --> 00:46:12,933
So just ungroup and then you'll be able to, um, you know, get to it or whatever.

509
00:46:14,053 --> 00:46:21,133
And then also, if you notice over here on the right hand side, it'll have these layers you can click and drag to put them in a certain order.

510
00:46:21,643 --> 00:46:30,613
Um, you get lots of options when you right click on the little caterpillar uh menu bring forward sent to back, or you can lock it to the background.

511
00:46:31,153 --> 00:46:35,113
Um, so these are all things you can do to kind of help you with your posters.

512
00:46:35,473 --> 00:46:38,503
Um, and this is totally printable when we're done with it.

513
00:46:38,533 --> 00:46:44,343
We just hit download and then, uh, in this case, we can choose either PNG or Jpeg.

514
00:46:44,353 --> 00:46:49,573
In this case, we probably want PDF, because then you probably want to get it printed right away, which is very nice.

515
00:46:49,843 --> 00:46:54,822
But they even have like other options which are pretty cool. Um, yeah.

516
00:46:54,823 --> 00:46:58,723
So this is an option and we want to name it first. So we give it a name up here.

517
00:46:59,143 --> 00:47:03,073
So we'll call it like plant poster or whatever.

518
00:47:03,343 --> 00:47:08,743
Now it's just saved online. Wherever I have internet access I can log in and access it, which is really cool.

519
00:47:08,933 --> 00:47:12,853
Doesn't take up space on your computer. Um, it's very nice.

520
00:47:13,063 --> 00:47:18,363
And if we want to add stuff to our, uh, poster, we can add our own text.

521
00:47:18,373 --> 00:47:23,263
We can add formatted sort of pre graphic design to text if we wanted to.

522
00:47:24,013 --> 00:47:30,193
Under elements is where you'll find things like these decorative arrows that could be really helpful to show a process.

523
00:47:30,613 --> 00:47:34,653
Um these are design assets. So there's all kinds of things here.

524
00:47:34,663 --> 00:47:40,902
There's also just interesting backgrounds which you might want to use for part of your poster, but probably not all of it.

525
00:47:40,903 --> 00:47:48,103
You want to make sure it's really readable. This has good contrast right here because it is a light background with dark text.

526
00:47:48,103 --> 00:47:51,873
So we want that. But you can just choose different background colors here.

527
00:47:51,883 --> 00:47:57,192
You could also put shapes, uh, in the background and give those colors.

528
00:47:57,193 --> 00:48:00,432
And that's that's how these were created. These shapes here.

529
00:48:00,433 --> 00:48:03,823
And so just they just pick different tones of, of green, which is cool.

530
00:48:04,273 --> 00:48:11,413
Um, so if we, uh, if we choose the background color, it'll kind of give you similar themed colors as well.

531
00:48:11,923 --> 00:48:16,873
Um, so it's kind of nice. And then also make sure you see icons.

532
00:48:17,293 --> 00:48:21,163
Icons are really helpful. We can just search for a certain kind of icon that we want.

533
00:48:21,553 --> 00:48:28,543
And you can, uh, you know, add this and resize it or whatever and change the color of it.

534
00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:33,043
Uh, all of that good stuff. Flip it if it's facing the wrong way, whatever it is that you want to do.

535
00:48:33,583 --> 00:48:36,553
Um, also under elements, there are charts.

536
00:48:37,333 --> 00:48:44,263
Um, so like under charts, you can actually put this little chart in and then notice how it picked up the colors, which is really cool.

537
00:48:44,263 --> 00:48:48,223
And now I just changed the the data here and it will change it on the chart.

538
00:48:48,643 --> 00:48:54,253
So that's kind of a neat thing as well which is neat. So I'll get rid of that for so we can see okay.

539
00:48:54,253 --> 00:49:00,642
So those are all the elements that you can do. Um, and uh media photos.

540
00:49:00,643 --> 00:49:04,153
If you go to media and you want to uh, you can either upload your own photos.

541
00:49:04,813 --> 00:49:09,163
You can if you go to photos here and search this is searching Adobe Stock.

542
00:49:09,283 --> 00:49:16,482
So you have all the rights to use it and put it in your poster and republish it and print it and do whatever you want, uh, with that.

543
00:49:16,483 --> 00:49:21,433
So if you wanted like an actual photo in there, um, we can bring in a photo.

544
00:49:22,093 --> 00:49:27,613
We can also, um, let's zoom out a second so we can kind of see a little bit better what we're doing.

545
00:49:28,093 --> 00:49:35,173
Uh, we can also do stuff to edit our photo pretty quickly, like remove the background,

546
00:49:36,103 --> 00:49:40,403
and it uses sort of the power of Photoshop, basically to take care of that for us.

547
00:49:40,473 --> 00:49:48,223
Now we have a remove the background here. So that might add a little interesting piece to our poster here to capture somebodies attention.

548
00:49:48,493 --> 00:49:52,963
You can even erase parts of an image. Add an object, remove an object.

549
00:49:53,293 --> 00:49:59,263
There's also adjustments. So if we wanted to increase the contrast or the brightness these are very similar to Lightroom.

550
00:49:59,863 --> 00:50:09,793
Um so you have those options as well. Um, also, if you wanted to duplicate this so you can make a copy of this right now we are on page one.

551
00:50:09,793 --> 00:50:13,273
We can duplicate this. And now we have a page two.

552
00:50:13,753 --> 00:50:19,323
We could resize this to something like Instagram Story and then use this.

553
00:50:19,333 --> 00:50:22,063
We can make some adjustments. We need to adjust this a little bit.

554
00:50:22,093 --> 00:50:28,963
Of course the content um but you can use this to promote your poster or your stuff or whatever.

555
00:50:28,963 --> 00:50:31,573
So lots of neat things you can do with Adobe Express.

556
00:50:32,293 --> 00:50:37,793
Um, they have all kinds of other templates and charts and that sort of thing, but just explore, see what's there.

557
00:50:37,813 --> 00:50:46,773
You can also use it just to create a simple graphic, and then download that graphic and put that into PowerPoint as your as part of your poster.

558
00:50:46,783 --> 00:50:53,112
So if you want to use it for a piece of it, that would be okay to you to, um,

559
00:50:53,113 --> 00:50:57,672
get back to the home screen, you click the little A to see where your stuff is saved.

560
00:50:57,673 --> 00:51:01,992
It's in the your Stuff folder. And so here's our plant poster right here.

561
00:51:01,993 --> 00:51:05,413
We can just click back into it and start editing again if we wanted to.

562
00:51:05,413 --> 00:51:08,983
And here's where it would save our favorite templates that we had saved.

563
00:51:09,373 --> 00:51:12,733
Um, so that's where you can come back to some ideas.

564
00:51:13,163 --> 00:51:20,033
As well. But notice you can also do custom size, so you can choose a custom size of whatever it is you want.

565
00:51:20,033 --> 00:51:23,273
You can figure out, okay, my poster's 30in by 40in.

566
00:51:23,483 --> 00:51:28,313
If I want a graphic that's like a pretty good size and it's going to be like maybe a third of that,

567
00:51:28,553 --> 00:51:31,613
I probably need that to be like ten inches by eight inches.

568
00:51:31,883 --> 00:51:35,693
And then you could create a custom size graphic download that, put it in your PowerPoint.

569
00:51:36,083 --> 00:51:40,283
Um, so if you're more comfortable with using that as your style, you could do that. But express is easy.

570
00:51:40,643 --> 00:51:45,233
Um, drag and drop, you know, saves to the cloud all of that good stuff, which is really great.

571
00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:54,253
All right. Very last piece I wanted to show you as another option, if you're ready to kind of go on to sort of a more professional level is InDesign.

572
00:51:54,263 --> 00:52:02,153
Now we have a whole nother one hour workshop recording on just how to use InDesign to make a research poster.

573
00:52:02,513 --> 00:52:07,643
Um, because it is a bit more involved, but just kind of show you that it's not so scary.

574
00:52:08,513 --> 00:52:13,373
Um, let me minimize this and go ahead and open up InDesign.

575
00:52:13,853 --> 00:52:18,053
Um, it does need to be, um, downloaded to your computer.

576
00:52:19,463 --> 00:52:22,663
Um, it is an app and desktop app in design is.

577
00:52:22,673 --> 00:52:25,843
And of course, you could use any of the other apps to kind of help you with this.

578
00:52:25,853 --> 00:52:30,053
You could use copilot at the same time to help you kind of wordsmith and that sort of thing.

579
00:52:30,473 --> 00:52:34,493
Um, oh, one thing I forgot to show you with express, we need to do super quick.

580
00:52:34,913 --> 00:52:45,503
Um, if we go back into our little design here and we go to media, then what we can also do is generate an AI image.

581
00:52:45,503 --> 00:52:48,983
So if we hit generate image, we can choose the ratio that we want.

582
00:52:49,493 --> 00:52:56,843
So let's say I want, uh, cute plant character, big eyes.

583
00:52:58,603 --> 00:53:03,463
Cartoon style. And then hit generate.

584
00:53:03,493 --> 00:53:06,642
Now I could choose all these settings. Like what kind of art do I want it to be?

585
00:53:06,643 --> 00:53:08,653
Oil painting. You know, watercolor.

586
00:53:08,653 --> 00:53:15,433
I could give it a style reference and upload my own art, which it does not train on, or a composition like how do I want it to look?

587
00:53:15,433 --> 00:53:21,613
You hit generate and now it's using, uh, Adobe Firefly to create something entirely new and novel.

588
00:53:21,973 --> 00:53:26,743
Uh, it has never existed before and it will never exist after today.

589
00:53:27,133 --> 00:53:33,372
So, uh, unique and cute. Yeah. And it gives you some ideas of some options that you might want to choose.

590
00:53:33,373 --> 00:53:36,703
If I was focusing more on succulents, this sky might be kind of cool.

591
00:53:37,093 --> 00:53:39,822
And again, I can go back and remove the background and that sort of stuff.

592
00:53:39,823 --> 00:53:47,233
But if you needed something really unique or very specific and you couldn't find it in a stock image, you could create yourself using Firefly.

593
00:53:47,473 --> 00:53:49,757
So quick little note there. And things like um, and expressed often that into himself or into emotion.

594
00:53:50,102 --> 00:53:54,181
So what? You can't necessarily import an entire document.

595
00:53:54,182 --> 00:53:58,952
What you could do is create a graphic. Just like you could put a graphic into PowerPoint.

596
00:53:58,952 --> 00:54:06,391
You could create a graphic by itself. So and then bring that into, um, InDesign or illustrator.

597
00:54:06,392 --> 00:54:09,452
But it would treat it as a static image.

598
00:54:09,872 --> 00:54:11,792
You wouldn't be able to go back and kind of edit it.

599
00:54:12,062 --> 00:54:16,262
You would have to if you wanted to do that, then you should probably use Photoshop for that, you know?

600
00:54:16,502 --> 00:54:23,041
But you could do that. So what you could do is and I wouldn't really recommend it in illustrator because you want that to stay.

601
00:54:23,042 --> 00:54:27,122
All vector is probably what you want. But InDesign, you could do that.

602
00:54:27,422 --> 00:54:31,621
So if you just created a graphic, let me just go to a graphic like super quick.

603
00:54:31,622 --> 00:54:38,372
So if you had, um, something like this that you wanted to incorporate or whatever,

604
00:54:38,372 --> 00:54:43,059
you could download that as a PNG or Jpeg and then place it into InDesign and move like.

605
00:54:43,482 --> 00:54:47,002
You can't take an express template and open it and InDesign.

606
00:54:47,022 --> 00:54:58,122
No. Good question. Now, um, on our um, in design research, the the workshop that I have for using InDesign for research posters.

607
00:54:58,512 --> 00:55:04,842
Uh, there are a couple of templates there that I give you that you can use for InDesign that are actually InDesign files,

608
00:55:05,112 --> 00:55:12,462
and they're just kind of standard Auburn colors, just gives you a little bit of a grid to start with, and then you just begin placing stuff.

609
00:55:12,462 --> 00:55:22,062
So. Good question. So in InDesign, uh, what you and it's really not that bad, you know, um, and sometimes templates can be a little too limiting.

610
00:55:22,062 --> 00:55:26,462
So in InDesign to create a poster, what we have to do first is set up the size.

611
00:55:26,472 --> 00:55:29,742
So just like everything else we want to choose of course print.

612
00:55:30,252 --> 00:55:38,182
And then instead of PCAs, which is like a publication, uh, measurement we want inches, that's probably what you're being given in it in.

613
00:55:38,532 --> 00:55:41,802
So we'll choose 30. We'll just do 30 by 40.

614
00:55:43,052 --> 00:55:47,822
And then you don't want facing pages. That would mean two pages next to each other like a magazine.

615
00:55:47,852 --> 00:55:54,352
We don't want that for a poster, so we uncheck that. Um, you can add these columns if you want to.

616
00:55:54,362 --> 00:55:58,321
And it's just they're just guides. They're not actually lines that print.

617
00:55:58,322 --> 00:56:04,172
They're just guides. And then the column gutters, the spacing between those uh those those columns.

618
00:56:04,412 --> 00:56:07,962
So we might increase that a little bit. And then margins are fine.

619
00:56:07,982 --> 00:56:11,612
You can leave that alone. You don't have to worry about bleed and slug for a poster.

620
00:56:11,852 --> 00:56:13,712
You know, you just want it to be sort of standard.

621
00:56:13,952 --> 00:56:18,632
You can also hit preview and kind of see is it doing what I want it to, or should I make some changes to it?

622
00:56:19,052 --> 00:56:24,842
That's a good trick. And then hit create. Now we have something with just some grids that we can start working from.

623
00:56:25,142 --> 00:56:31,351
And then from here you can basically start placing some things like we can use the rectangle tool uh,

624
00:56:31,352 --> 00:56:35,632
and then give it a color maybe because right now it has no color.

625
00:56:35,702 --> 00:56:41,822
So we'll just pick a color for a second so you can kind of see. And then we just click and drag and start creating.

626
00:56:42,782 --> 00:56:49,562
And so from there you add shapes. Um, there's also these little frame tools, which are really nice.

627
00:56:50,192 --> 00:56:57,722
So what I can do with this is, um, put a frame here, and then when I place an image in there and notice there's a text image,

628
00:56:57,722 --> 00:57:05,162
I can use Firefly right here too, if I wanted to, just like express, um, I can place an image in there and it will mask to that circle.

629
00:57:05,342 --> 00:57:08,372
So you could put like people's, you know, profile picture in there.

630
00:57:08,372 --> 00:57:14,462
There's a good way to use it. Um, text boxes, you just start dragging to make a text box.

631
00:57:14,972 --> 00:57:19,012
You can fill it with, uh, placeholder text for now if you wanted to.

632
00:57:19,022 --> 00:57:23,102
Of course. You want to increase the size first so you can see what you're doing.

633
00:57:23,552 --> 00:57:29,042
Fill with placeholder text is a nice feature, so you can go back and put the real text in there later, and so on.

634
00:57:29,402 --> 00:57:35,822
You have a lot more control over your text in InDesign, and a lot more control over your boxes and where they land.

635
00:57:36,302 --> 00:57:39,692
There's also the possibility to link text boxes.

636
00:57:40,172 --> 00:57:43,262
So we can, uh, use this tool to link them.

637
00:57:44,822 --> 00:57:48,422
Drafted. So we can use this tool to link them.

638
00:57:48,422 --> 00:57:57,812
And then once we have that, those created a linked uh, then we can use the text flow feature in InDesign, which is also available in express.

639
00:57:57,812 --> 00:58:02,071
That's handy if you have an image you want the text to continue, but you want to edit your text, right.

640
00:58:02,072 --> 00:58:10,172
You don't want to manually edit it. Um, and then to place images, you essentially go to File Place, choose an image or whatever.

641
00:58:10,202 --> 00:58:15,572
Um, I had a jellyfish. Where to go? Here it is. Open it, uh, click and drag to place it.

642
00:58:16,112 --> 00:58:23,312
And then in InDesign, if you resize, if you move the frame, it'll mask it automatically for you, which is kind of nice.

643
00:58:23,912 --> 00:58:29,012
Um, so anyway, that's a super quick little brief intro just to show you InDesign isn't that bad.

644
00:58:30,002 --> 00:58:36,632
Uh, but you do have to set it up properly, and then you have to kind of know what you're doing with those four tools the place tool or the move tool.

645
00:58:36,872 --> 00:58:43,562
The text tool, you have lines so you can draw paths in draw, um, you know, like you can in illustrator.

646
00:58:43,862 --> 00:58:47,341
And then these placement, uh, frame tools are really nice.

647
00:58:47,342 --> 00:58:52,112
So you can go in and put your pictures in later and then the colors, um,

648
00:58:52,112 --> 00:58:56,132
basically and then knowing that file place is how you place your images in there.

649
00:58:56,132 --> 00:58:59,942
And so being organized is really important because you have to have all that stuff in a folder

650
00:59:00,032 --> 00:59:04,082
and not move the location of the images because you're linking to them and that sort of thing.

651
00:59:04,472 --> 00:59:10,711
Um, so but if you're interested, there's a whole one hour workshop, um, on, uh,

652
00:59:10,712 --> 00:59:22,592
using InDesign for research posters on our instructional content page, um, which is right here, Bobby, search IRC instruction.

653
00:59:22,892 --> 00:59:29,881
And we are going to be at time. So I'm going to close with this. But um, if you would like a review, you're going to get a recording, uh, from today.

654
00:59:29,882 --> 00:59:33,962
But there's also, um, additional recordings available here.

655
00:59:34,172 --> 00:59:38,582
And there is one on research poster design using Adobe InDesign if you're interested.

656
00:59:38,912 --> 00:59:43,382
If you want to go more into depth with express, there's one here, um,

657
00:59:43,382 --> 00:59:48,841
that talks that just explains express a little bit more, um, and goes more into depth with it.

658
00:59:48,842 --> 00:59:56,282
And then there's also one on infographics and visuals that goes into color theory and things like that, and shapes and all of that good stuff.

659
00:59:56,492 --> 01:00:00,105
Yeah. But thank you all so much for coming today. I really appreciate it.