Easy steps to make Graphical Abstract for Elsevier journal on Powerpoint
Hi guys welcome to a PowerPoint for scientists. So in this lecture we're gonna learn how to create a graphical abstract so first we need to know what is the requirement of the journal we publish it in so what is the requirement for the graphical abstract and second we're gonna learn how to design a graphical abstract a simple yet effective one and lastly I'm gonna show you what what are the useful resources that you can use to create the graphical abstract for your publication. So let's go ahead and dive into the lecture how to create a graphical abstract so first thing to find out what is the requirement for the graphical abstract u just search graphic apps right guideline and then type in the name of the journal you are targeted to like nature or science so in this example I'm going to use the requirement of an Elsevier which is the popular publisher so you can see that on this side they have the guideline for the specification of the graphic abstract; so the image size they say use the ratio of 200 high and 500 wide so the ratio is 2 by 5 so we'll create a box of 2 by 5 ratio so create the box Height: put 2 and width is 5 and then now we can go to change it to no fill and the line I would change it into black color and then now we have this box ratio of 2:5 and you can scale it out; so your graphical abstract design will need to fit inside this box and also they have other requirement like the font and also the file type TIFF, EPS or PDF so the good graphical abstract is a clear simple and deliver the most important point of your research so here are a few example of the graphic abstract in nature review journal so you can see that they have a similar type so the best one is the one that explains the relationship of different factors like this so I'm gonna add this picture into our PowerPoint and I'm going to show you how we can recreate these graphical abstract so you can see the ratio is different with our ratio of Elsevier so in this lecture we're gonna recreate a portion of this figure so we're gonna create this portion here so I'm gonna crop it and then we're gonna search picture so first we gonna search bacterial icon and choose the icon that we like.
So you guys can check out the previous lecture that I show you the tips and tricks to create graphical abstract or the figure so I'm gonna go relatively quick how to do first we have remove the background because they have the white background well see they can zoom it's smaller I'm sorry for this one and then we would change the color to prevent the copyright issue so we have green blue maybe I will change it into blue and make it smaller rotate it around and it more or less new figure so to copy you can hold ALT or in the new version you can hold right click and drag so you can quickly duplicate any figure or shapes it's very cool feature so I'm gonna go fast forward and show you how to do at the rest of the graphical abstract. We gonna search for human drag it in change color search for a predator maybe a lion maybe the one that like chasing you need to remove background we will remove the white part and now it's good make it smaller and change the color so now we need to create a curved arrow that represent interaction between them can use arc and hold Shift to make it ratio so the best way to create is make it circle like this and then we will duplicate it so at the end you can create a perfectly circle relationship so adjust it and turn it back to quarter like this and then I'll right-click you can duplicate it I put it on top and then you can adjust the dot where it end and start; like this just drag the yellow dot and then right click to duplicate it and then adjust the yellow dot for the start and end point so you can see that we create the perfect circle of relationship among them so we will just make a small adjustment to make it center a little bit on the right and choose the three arc and then we will change to the arrow so shape - arrows and choose 2 sided arrows and increased width of the line ,maybe 4 point so you can see now we have a perfect circle and then I would choose the neutral color I choose grey and now you can add text box to the requirement font of the journal, so this time i'm gonna choose Arial sorry now this will be pathogens change to maybe 14 point font and Apple + E to centralize it and maybe change it to you to gray so you can copy this this is some human and then right click drag to copy they have predators so you can see that we can quickly create this graphical abstract which is very clear simple but show the interaction of the three factors and when we missing is the title box in the middle so create a box and in the Nature journal style I will choose gradient fill you can choose Radial and then Center it so you can adjust this till it clear and you can put edit text or just simply copy the text box so this figure show the evolutionary pressures so we can adjust it so we're all done we can see this is very powerful abstract so to export it you click file export will be to desktop and I will choose JPEG or TIFF or PNG so JPEG and you can always increase this maybe like 3000 and it will keep the ratio of the width and height and to export it you will have the very high quality JPEG so you can see that when i zoom in is still not breaking so you can check the DPI make sure it's 300 dpi so you can see that this is how you can manually create the graphical abstract but they have another program is Mind the Graph.
Www.mindthegraph.com ; so this is a perfect online software that you can use to create a graphical abstract so after you log in you can choose icon and you can search all the icons here example bacteria so all of these icon & photo are free of copyright so you can freely use it and just choose the one that are fit for your research so the next one will be a human so this software is mainly designed for the science fields so you can see that they have a lot of figure about science and cell so it will benefit for you guys who work about science so so check out this website and I think it's very cool website that if you want to quickly create a nice graphical abstract without worry about the copyright issue.
So that's all for today guys thank you very much for listening and I will see you in the next lecture.
So you guys can check out the previous lecture that I show you the tips and tricks to create graphical abstract or the figure so I'm gonna go relatively quick how to do first we have remove the background because they have the white background well see they can zoom it's smaller I'm sorry for this one and then we would change the color to prevent the copyright issue so we have green blue maybe I will change it into blue and make it smaller rotate it around and it more or less new figure so to copy you can hold ALT or in the new version you can hold right click and drag so you can quickly duplicate any figure or shapes it's very cool feature so I'm gonna go fast forward and show you how to do at the rest of the graphical abstract. We gonna search for human drag it in change color search for a predator maybe a lion maybe the one that like chasing you need to remove background we will remove the white part and now it's good make it smaller and change the color so now we need to create a curved arrow that represent interaction between them can use arc and hold Shift to make it ratio so the best way to create is make it circle like this and then we will duplicate it so at the end you can create a perfectly circle relationship so adjust it and turn it back to quarter like this and then I'll right-click you can duplicate it I put it on top and then you can adjust the dot where it end and start; like this just drag the yellow dot and then right click to duplicate it and then adjust the yellow dot for the start and end point so you can see that we create the perfect circle of relationship among them so we will just make a small adjustment to make it center a little bit on the right and choose the three arc and then we will change to the arrow so shape - arrows and choose 2 sided arrows and increased width of the line ,maybe 4 point so you can see now we have a perfect circle and then I would choose the neutral color I choose grey and now you can add text box to the requirement font of the journal, so this time i'm gonna choose Arial sorry now this will be pathogens change to maybe 14 point font and Apple + E to centralize it and maybe change it to you to gray so you can copy this this is some human and then right click drag to copy they have predators so you can see that we can quickly create this graphical abstract which is very clear simple but show the interaction of the three factors and when we missing is the title box in the middle so create a box and in the Nature journal style I will choose gradient fill you can choose Radial and then Center it so you can adjust this till it clear and you can put edit text or just simply copy the text box so this figure show the evolutionary pressures so we can adjust it so we're all done we can see this is very powerful abstract so to export it you click file export will be to desktop and I will choose JPEG or TIFF or PNG so JPEG and you can always increase this maybe like 3000 and it will keep the ratio of the width and height and to export it you will have the very high quality JPEG so you can see that when i zoom in is still not breaking so you can check the DPI make sure it's 300 dpi so you can see that this is how you can manually create the graphical abstract but they have another program is Mind the Graph.
Www.mindthegraph.com ; so this is a perfect online software that you can use to create a graphical abstract so after you log in you can choose icon and you can search all the icons here example bacteria so all of these icon & photo are free of copyright so you can freely use it and just choose the one that are fit for your research so the next one will be a human so this software is mainly designed for the science fields so you can see that they have a lot of figure about science and cell so it will benefit for you guys who work about science so so check out this website and I think it's very cool website that if you want to quickly create a nice graphical abstract without worry about the copyright issue.
So that's all for today guys thank you very much for listening and I will see you in the next lecture.