Graphics

A lot of time, you end up doing your own graphics for your own needs, especially for your lectures and posters. Graphic artists can do a great job. But trust me, you are the better person and know what you want. You cannot leave it to the graphic artist all the time and just take what they give you. Sometimes it is better to say what you have in mind and see if your graphic artists are agreeable to your terms and specifications, rather than be mute. Yes, it is a known truth that graphic artists are good at what they do but a lecturer has a mouth and a need to teach. Fulfilling a teaching need is the lecturer's duty. Trying to teach with the worst graphics is about the worst thing a lecturer can deliver to students. Of course the feedback from students will be "terrible" but that is to be expected if we don't pay attention to graphical needs in teaching at university level.

Here's about Graphics Software:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ss/basicaction.htm