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Before you start

STEP 1: STARTING OUT

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: LEGAL USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

- Writing a report/assignment

- Tips for presentations

- Tips for posters

Planning

Layout

Colour

Text and font

Visuals

Useful web sites

- Tips for brochures

- Tips for displays

- E-communication guidelines

- Writing styles

Graphics, photographs, diagrams, etc., are very important components of your poster. They will add interesting visuals to the poster, helping you to get your message across.

• Don't add unnecessary or too many visuals to your poster - this will clutter your poster and make it too "busy".
• Enlarge and crop your visuals, if necessary, by zooming into the relevant part of the picture/visual.
• Make sure that your visuals are clear and of good quality. There are different ways to do this, depending on whether it is a graphic, photograph, diagram, etc. Look at the following examples:

Photographs	a good quality scan; take the photograph with a digital camera and work with a digital image instead of scanned pictures.
Diagrams / Graphics	Design the diagram with a software package that has been designed for graphics and diagrams, such as Corel Presentations, CorelDraw, Photoshop, etc.