Off topic:Skills for figure preparation in publishing papers

Question

[Shicheng Guo]

Hi All,

Suppose we use R to prepare figures. What's the most effective figure preparation to publish our works in bioinformatics/genomics journals? As we know, now, we need have at least 6 figures (Figure 1 - Figure 6) and each figures would include 4 or 6 sub-figure. Therefore, what's your strategy to prepare these figures. How to set the figure size for the sub-figure?

1. Will you set them to width=2? inch and height=3 inches? So there the totally figures would be 6 inches width and 8 inches height?
2. Will you plot the sub-figures with R's default setting (width=7, height=7) and then scale them in photoshop with other sub-figures?

Also, I have some skills sharing with you.

1. Save figure to pdf or png, never save them to jpg
2. The font size of label, axis and legends should be large enough in the paper
3. The font type in figure should be same with main manuscript
4. The lines should be as bold as possible.

More skills are welcome.

Here is a example, how to prepare this figure with highest efficiency?