Information Literacy: Communicate your information

Visuals

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.