Now most of the journals need graphical abstract for the article to be published. Is there any general guidelines for preparing graphical abstracts ?. Is there any software available design graphical abstracts ?.
BioRender! (https://biorender.io/)
Great online app that contains a library of pre-made cells, proteins, membrane shapes, organs, lab equipment, etc. that you can drag-and-drop so you don't have to spend time drawing each element of the figure out yourself. Saves a lot of time for creating schematic figures, and the icons are all created by scientific illustrators so they're both beautiful and accurate!
In most cases, a simple graphics tool like ms Visio, Ms word, Corel draw, inkscape will do your work.
Also make sure you check the guidelines for the journal.
Some may also want a short video.
In applied soft computing journal, they asked me to add a graphical abstract for a review paper, I added a flowchart of the content of the paper. You can do the same thing, or you can add a graph for your methodology with a little bit of modification. Also, you can check the articles that published recently, but this way take a long time.
BioRender! (https://biorender.io/)
Great online app that contains a library of pre-made cells, proteins, membrane shapes, organs, lab equipment, etc. that you can drag-and-drop so you don't have to spend time drawing each element of the figure out yourself. Saves a lot of time for creating schematic figures, and the icons are all created by scientific illustrators so they're both beautiful and accurate!
Thank you so much Savanna Jackson ! It seems, indeed, very useful!
Filipe Ferreira dos Santos você também pode tentar o Mind the Graph (http://www.mindthegraph.com), que é mais barato, brasileiro e com mais illustrações!
simply design your extract over power point over the asked sheet size and then save as image in high quality OR you an draw over Coral ( technically hard)
STEPS FOR YOU
1. open power point> customize sheet for dimension of Graphical extract
2. Design abstract
3. "save as" other format
4. "save type" as JPEG with interchangeable
5. upload in journal
6. Enjoy
I recommend this application for you: https://mindthegraph.com
Good luck...
Obrigado Larissa da Silva gostei bastante do Mind the Graph também!
You have to use Photoshop if you want to create a unique graphical abstract. I think those softwares such as e-draw is not good enough
BioRender has plenty of stuff in chemistry and biology
Regarding legal rights... we can really use the images created in biorender as ours? On our manuscripts?
Cristiana Gonçalves https://help.biorender.com/en/articles/3619408-where-can-i-use-the-illustrations-i-make-in-biorender
You have lots of options so.
1. Photoshop is suitable for creating 2D raster-based pictures and Illustrator is a vector-based one.
2. For creating 3D objects you can use 3Ds max, Cinema4D, Blender, Maya and etc.
3. Microsoft Visio is another great program for windows.
4. Also, you can use online sites listed as follow:
https://biorender.com/
https://www.mindthegraph.com/
5. And finally, if you cannot create a proper graphical abstract, just find a good graphic designer. :)
Mind The graph and Biorender both are great free app.
Good Luck
The simple solution is Microsoft PowerPoint. For advance ones go to my Research Tools Mind Map https://www.mindmeister.com/39583892/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim?fullscreen=1 (see the attached file).
when you want to design your graphical abstract for your article you can use photo shop soft ware, sketch pad that is online soft ware and, it resemblances photoshop.
PowerPoint is easy to use for quality graphical abstracts.
below links will be helpful to understand the PowerPoint for graphical abstracts.
1- How to draw 3-D core shell structure on PowerPoint
https://youtu.be/2Sc1pKH-Ohk
2- How to draw mechanism for drug delivery system
https://youtu.be/m1-OMC_v0Zs
you can use the chem draw to draw 3-D Core shell structure after that, you should copy paste on ppt.
Canva - https://www.canva.com/
Canva it's the most versatile software to make GA and free too (user friendly )
the Biorender is superb for medical, biotech fields but paid version needed to publish in the journal (Edu -free but "Does not provide permission to publish in journals")
General guidelines
all the above points will clear given in the journal websites
MDPI: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/crystals/instructions
Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/tools-and-resources/graphical-abstract
Graphical abstract drawing at very low cost (Starting price: 35 USD for 2D image) use the link: https://www.facebook.com/grapicmaster/ All you have to do is send a pencil drawing of your concept to be illustrated to them they will draw accordingly. Once drawn the graphical image of your illustration you can see the image and pay for it. It is very flexible and precise.
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