Tag: Publications
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Fixing up images in a powerpoint presentation
Ideally you would fix up images before you add them to powerpoint, but what if you have just made a complex powerpoint presentation and realised, for example, that the images all have an undesirable colour cast. And perhaps you have many images in the file with the same issue. Fixing them one by one by […]renfreeshawlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2025/04/07/fixing-up-images-in-a-powerpoint-presentation
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PhyloPic.org — Animal and Plant Silhouettes for your diagrams
PhiloPic.org provides ready made silhouettes of animals and plants for your graphic art needs
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Some Recent Publications
Here is an update on publications – these are 2015, 2016, 2017 and in press. Buentjen, I., Drews, B., Frankenberg, S. R., Hildebrandt, T. B., Renfree, M. B. and Menzies, B. R. (2015) Characterisation of major histocompatibility complex class I genes at the fetal-maternal interface of marsupials. Immunogenetics 67: 385-93 PMID:25957041 Cornelis, G., Vernochet, C., Carradec, […]renfreeshawlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2017/04/11/some-recent-publications
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Converting photos to powerpoint with lines and shading
If you want to create drawings like the one to the right using a program you already know how to use, this tutorial may help you. Powerpoint is not ideal for this sort of drawing, but it is easier than Inkscape (free) or Adobe Illustrator (very expensive), since you already know how to drive powerpoint. No new user interface to learn, just a few tricks and tweaks to get the head around.
This tutorial will take you through the key steps in generating this illustration of a newborn wallaby attached to a teat in the pouch. I will show how to generate the base by tracing the outlines from a photo, and then how to embellish this with fills and shading to get a reasonably 3-D appearance.