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Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 Workshop for PhD-students and other researchers

The Erasmus Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine (MolMed) has two main activities: (1) the organization of education for PhD students; and (2) the stimulation of cooperation between several departments with regards to translational research.

On Tuesday afternoon with the second part on Wednesday morning, the school organizes this two half-day hands-on Workshop on the use of Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 to edit and refine images for medical publications and to make and adapt figures, graphs and tables. It is especially meant for medical PhD-students, Agiko’s and others who wants to know more about making figures for publications in scientific journals, such as Nature, Science and others. Both programs, Photoshop and Illustrator, will be dealt with evenly.
This workshop uses the Adobe program Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4 which can be bought at a heavily reduced price for all Erasmus MC employees via Surfspot.nl (as part of the Creative Suite CS4). All Erasmus MC employees who have a SOM-pc will have access to Photoshop CS3.

Contents
In this workshop you will learn to create a figure with imaginary data from different file-types, such as: ppt, pdf, psd, tiff, jpg and eps. We will be adding pictures and tables into one figure meant for publication. We will be correcting pictures and images for colour and learn about the difference between CMYK and RGB. And we will be importing and exporting data, such as images and figures, to and from Photoshop and Illustrator. It is possible to bring your own images as well. The second day will be partly about modifying your own images.

Audience
This Workshop is meant for PhD-students and other researchers who want to learn how to adapt their own images, in order to include them in scientific publications.
Basic knowledge of Photoshop and/or Illustrator is useful, but not necessary.

Day program
Day 1 (Afternoon) will start with lectures on Photoshop, explaining the different tools and letting you work with them on several prefabricated images. The Guidelines for Image-publications will be explained. And also a few aspects of Illustrator will be discussed.
Day 2 (Morning) will focus more in-depth on the skills learned during the first day. Adobe Illustrator will be discussed more extensively, and importing and exporting images from other programs will be discussed as well. You can also bring your own images, if you have some, or practice some more with the exercise images.

Time & location
Day 1: 13.30 – 17.00; with a small coffee break.
Day 2: 9.30 – 13.00; with a small coffee break.
Location: Computer room Ee-15.28, Bioinformatics dept., Erasmus MC, Medical Faculty, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
For handy maps and directions, please go to our website: www.molmed.nl; and click top right on ’route/maps/hotels’.

Teachers & assistants
This workshop will be given by Egied Simons of the dept. of Hematology. He will be assisted by Frank van der Panne of the dept. of Pathology, Tom De Vries Lentsch of Cluster Bureau 15 (dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics) and/or Ruud Koppenol of Cluster Bureau 15 (dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics).

Priority rules for attending (important!)
We give priority to participants from MolMed or MGC from Erasmus MC. Other participants will be placed under condition that there are enough places and will be informed in advance whether they will have a place or not. When there are a lot of participants on the waiting list, the workshop will be repeated on a short term.

Attendance fees
The registration fee of non-commercial participants for the Workshop is € 150,00. All participants from the research schools MolMed or MGC from Erasmus MC receive a discount of 100 % and pay € 0.
PhD students and post docs from other schools receive a discount of 50 % and pay € 75.

Invoice
Fees can be paid upon an INVOICE. After your registration you will receive the INVOICE per post. Payment per bank can be done on account: 43.47.01.408 / Erasmus MC, (IBAN code bank: NL86ANBA0434701408; SWIFT code bank: ABNANL2A), together with the number on your INVOICE.
Late participants can also pay in cash upon signing in for the Workshop.

Cancellations
The fees are for all the days of the Workshop. There is no discount for partaking only in part of the Workshop. Our cancellation policy is that cancellation is possible up to one week before the start of the Workshop. Later cancellation will not be accepted, but you are allowed to send a substitute.

Commercial participants & sponsors
(Participants from) companies are invited to inquire for participation and sponsoring.