Powerpoint for Scientist: Guides for Presentation and Design

Name: Powerpoint for Scientist: Guides for Presentation and Design
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Making high quality figures, graphical abstracts, posters, infographics, and presentations.

Created byDuc Nguyen

Last updated 2/2019

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What you'll learn

Create professional scientific presentations, posters, figures, graphical abstracts, infographics, etc.
Simple steps to remake figures from the internet to prevent copyright
Learn tips and tricks that turn Powerpoint to as powerful as Adobe Illustrator and other professional design software
Create Nature/Science journal style illustrations in Powerpoint
How to prepare and organize your conference/defense presentation and poster that

Course content

3 sections • 31 lectures • 4h 3m total length

Intro: Why learning Scientific Powerpoint ?11:55
How to graduate faster using Growth Mindset to learn Scientific Presentation & Illustration skill
Guide: How to use Udemy for learning Powerpoint2:01
Discover how to use Udemy to study PowerPoint 2017 practical design guide for scientists: enroll, access lectures, enable captions, download materials, and organize bookmarks, Q&A, and course content.
Preview 1 - Remove background from picture2:06
learn to remove picture backgrounds in PowerPoint using remove background, refine with plus and minus, and achieve a seamless blend with the slide background.
Preview 2 - Scientific Presentation5:17
Learn to craft a scientific presentation by customizing templates, structuring slides, and using one-by-one animations and charts to clearly present results like co2 reductions and coral bleaching, with practical resources.
Preview 3 - Add and edit icons in a presentation1:09
Choose simple, minimal icons to represent ideas in your PowerPoint, copy and adjust icons, and apply format, artistic effect, white to create a clean biohazard slide and other slides.
Preview 4 - Recreate professional illustration from internet1:55
Learn to modify colors and designs of internet images in PowerPoint, retrace and recreate your own visuals using edit points, layers, and merging for magazine-quality science illustrations.
Preview 5 - Scientific Poster6:02
design posters that captivate with a bold title and dominant illustration, keep text minimal, aim for 70% infographic and a clear takeaway with a top-to-bottom flow.
Preview 6: Animated video clips3:31
Preview 7: Animation for a process cycle2:50
Animate a step-by-step process in PowerPoint for scientific figures. Create custom shapes, adjust transparency and fill, use the selection pane, and reveal the background piece by piece.
Preview 8: Export HighRes picture with transparent background2:25
Simple steps to export picture in high resolution with transparent background.
Great tips to create you own stock icons, pictures, symbols for your presentation.
Preview 9: Export 300 dpi image3:45
Export a PowerPoint slide as a 300 dpi image in JPEG or TIFF, using about 2900 px for high resolution, then set 300 dpi in Preview without resampling.

2 - Useful tools in Powerpoint12:57
Useful tools that we will use throughout the course. Ex: remove background, paint tool, edit points, animation path, etc.
2.1 Familiarize with Powerpoint 2017 New Tools18:00
3 - Design presentation - Do and Don't16:07
Design a minimal, effective PowerPoint for scientists by selecting 16:9, a clean background, restrained fonts and colors, oversized images, no bullet points, flat charts, and concise tables.
4 - Create your own designs from Internet images9:57
Modify internet icons in PowerPoint to create your own designs, using color changes, tracing with edit points on a transparent underlay, and layer merging to produce publication-ready icons.
5 - Create graphical abstract11:06
Learn to design clear graphical abstracts that meet journal guidelines, using PowerPoint or Mind the Graph to craft a 2:5 ratio graphic with fonts, colors, and export-ready files.
6 - Create scientific poster15:42
7 - Create scientific presentation17:51
You Are the Only Presentation. The Powerpoint is just the Visual Aid. Use it wisely to improve the impact of your presentation.
Follow these simple steps to improve your Scientific Presentation Quality:
1. You are the 1st and most important factor of the presentation.
2. You have 2 visual aids: Text and Figure. Use wisely to draw focus and deliver a clear message.
3. Structure of a scientific presentation has 3 steps, answering 3 questions in order:
- Why should people care
- How you solved the problem
- What are the findings
And end with 1 clear take home message relating it to big picture "Why should people care?"
8- Animation for presentations or short clips22:06
9 - Color in scientific illustration9:36
Use the color wheel to craft contrasting and harmonious color schemes, including monochromatic and complementary colors. Build palettes in PowerPoint slide master and apply color theory to charts.
9.1. Color Gradient and Application13:11
Master how to apply a color gradient in PowerPoint for scientist presentations, focusing on color gradient application and design.
10 - How to create focus in figure6:37
How to use Transparency to create a "pop-up effect" and draw the focus on a certain section of the figure in these 3 simple steps.
-Step 1: Duplicate figure
-Step 2: In figure 1, crop out the part you want to focus. In figure 2, increate the Transparency
-Step 3: Put Figure 1 (cut out portion) on top of Figure 2 (transparent whole picture).
11 - Prepare and presenting data15:44
Remember 3 things when presenting your data:
1 information at a time ( 1 result - 1 conclusion - in 1 slide)
2 axes of the chart can be design in contrast for the best effect
3 seconds is the maximum time needed to understand your data (in both chart or table)
12 - Rule of 3 in structuring and designing presentation8:45
Apply the rule of three to structure and design your presentation by answering why, how, and what; limit to three messages per slide and use a three color scheme.
13 - Create your own Icon6:02
This lecture will teach you:
- How to convert every picture to pure White, for minimalism icon design
- Simple steps to create a flat design icon in less than 1 minute.
14 - Create Nature style illustration7:58
Simple steps to make your figures look like high quality illustration in Nature journal:
1. Light yellow background with thin gray line
2. Gradient filled all shapes (Type: Radial. Direction: Center)

Remove background of pictures0:50
Master the remove background tool in PowerPoint to eliminate white backgrounds, keeping the subject by selecting the image, opening picture format, and applying remove background.
Edit Points to Customize Shapes2:32
Learn to create and customize shapes in PowerPoint by adding shapes, changing color, copying formats, merging or grouping, and editing anchor points to form smooth, custom curves.
Cover unwanted parts by Color Fill2:32
Cover unwanted parts with color fill and shapes, remove outlines and shadows, and embrace minimalist flat design in PowerPoint for science visuals.
How to Reorder Multiple Objects1:56
How to Merge and Fragment Shapes0:57
Learn to merge shapes using union to create a single ship and use fragment to split intersecting shapes into editable parts; customize shading to refine the design.

Requirements

General familiarization with Powerpoint

Description

Who is this course designed for:

Graduate students who want to graduate faster
Scientific researchers writing manuscripts for peer-review journals
Students making poster or presentation for conferences
Person interested in making beautiful scientific art

This course will provide you every tips and tricks you need to know to create professional-looking scientific materials to impress your audience and gain attention for your work.

Who this course is for:

Any student or researcher want to create high quality scientific presentation and publication
Graduate students who are preparing to give proposal/defense presentation or attending conferences
People who want to publish a critical review article in high impact factor journals
Learn to create graphical abstract, poster, figure in original paper/review paper, infographic, seminar/conference/thesis presentation,

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