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Designing Effective Poster Presentations

Tip

From a quality standpoint, either Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign would be the best program to use.

Programs

Adobe Illustrator
*Cost associated
Available via Georgia College
Adobe InDesign
*Cost associated
Available via Georgia College
Adobe Photoshop
*Cost associated
Available via Georgia College
Canva
Free
Website to create professional looking projects.
GIMP
a free image editing software online
Google Slides
Free
Haiku Deck
*Cost Associated
Student Discount
Microsoft PowerPoint
*Cost associated
Available via Georgia College
Microsoft Publisher
*Cost associated
Prezi
Free for students
Quark
*Cost associated

Help Pages

Help Links

Adobe Illustrator Help
Tips for Designing a Poster - University of Michigan
Canva Help
Google Slides Help
Making Posters & Other Large Documents With Google Slides
Microsoft PowerPoint Help
How to Make a Poster Using PowerPoint
Photoshop Help
Image size and resolution
Prezi Help
Official Prezi Tutorials

Templates

Free Research Poster Templates
Free PowerPoint Templates (a paid service for printing) but you can use the templates for free.
Scientific Poster Templates
Free Templates from Penn State University.
Poster Design Templates
From Rice University

Examples

F1000Research
"F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication of posters, slides and articles.."
Flickr: Pimp my Poster
"This group is for soliciting suggestions from strangers on a poster you are designing for a meeting."
Poster Samples: University of Texas
Poster samples