Here are some tips on the best practices when sending your figures.

• Figures embeded in your text editor are not suitabe for professional publishing, so if you place them there they will serve just as a preview. Prepare and supply all your figures, graphs and illustrations in their original, graphic formats (like PDF, EPS, WMF, EMF, TIFF, PSD, JPG, etc.).
• If possible do not enlarge the files in a photo image processing software.
• Crop the images to have only the necessary information.
• If you export any graphs from a statistic software always choose a vector based formats, i.e. PDF, EPS, WMF or EMF (preferably with the order given, so PDF as a first choice, EPS as second, and so on). Try to avoid bitmap based images like TIFF (as a first-choice format), PNG, JPG or BMP. If bitmap image is your only choice then set up the highest image quality possible (resolution and/or size) and choose the file format.
• If you expect a graph to have 10×10 cm dimensions, then you would choose a resolution of 300 dpi with and the size 100×100 mm or a size in pixels 1200×1200 px. For each 1 cm of a dimension you need at least 120 px.

• If you have black&white bitmap figures consider converting them into grayscale colour space, this wil reduce file size and make the sending process a bit faster.
• Name the figure files to allow to identify them easily with the chapter number first i.e. "ch1_fig_1.pdf" or "C2_F5.tiff".
• Have a figure in a very bad quality? Let me see it and I will check how to improve the quality. If it is necessary I will draw it from scratch!