Visual/Graphical Abstract and Scientific Figures

All Princeton students, faculty, staff, and most affiliates have free access to more than 20 leading industry-standard Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Illustrator.

Freemium online graphic design tool. Also available for mobile devices.

Freemium online design tool. Includes Jamboard functionality.

Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting.

Scientific figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics. Free version allows up to 4 scientific illustrations

Provides instruction and design templates.

This is a searchable collection of scientific photos, illustrations, and videos. The images and videos in this gallery are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit and license your new creations under identical terms.

Pre-made icons for visualizations and graphics in the life sciences. Free account does not allow icon use in journal publications.