From Data to Illustrations: Common (Free) Tools for Proper Image Data Handling and Processing

Abstrakt

Studying morphogenesis is unthinkable without visualizing shapes, and sharing the results of such studies critically depends on communicating image data. Despite a wealth of literature dealing with acquisition and analysis of image data, visualizing them for publication or presentation purposes remains a craft learned mainly by experience.

This chapter provides a practical guide to producing publication-grade illustrations out of raw microscopic (or other) digital images, using mostly or exclusively free software, and points out some common problems and their solutions.

Klíčová slova

• computer graphics
• data visualization
• microscopy
• bitmap
• raster
• vector
• resolution
• bit depth
• InkScape
• ImageJ