Conference poster

Its been a while since I’ve had to make a poster. Thank God for times I’d spent playing with and in the process, learning Adobe Photoshop. The skills and knowledge gained from that was initially just used on photographs, but now, in the making of my poster (high resolution poster available at this weblink).

As I worked on my poster, day and night (sometimes in the early mornings), I wonder how difficult it must be for others who need help with the making of their poster. Having to wait around for that person to be available before you can actually make changes to the poster. This poster of mine has gone through more than 30 revisions.

A lesson to offer: Every time I make a revision, either in the graphic or major changes to text, I save it as a new version. Because I never know, if further down the line, I change my mind and prefer the older version. So, rather than constantly overwriting earlier versions of the poster, I continue to make new editions and save it as a new file.

Although this poster was made in Adobe Photoshop, the graphic on the lower left, was made in Microsoft PowerPoint. I’ll write in my next post how this poster came about.

My poster will be different from many posters in this upcoming conference for two reasons:

1. its not presenting results of my research but what I’m planning to do my research on (actually, its underway)
2. There’s a mixture of posters and oral presentations in this conference. Mixture in the sense that, some are purely about the natural and physical science aspects. Some are a combination of the science and local communities. Mine falls into this second category but with greater emphasis on cultural associations of indigenous Fijian funerals with sustainable resource management and conservation.

Tomorrow (Sunday, June 19th 2016) starts the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), here in Honolulu (Hawaii). This conference is held every four years. I was blessed to have been a part of the 12th ICRS which was held in Cairns, Australia.

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