Abstract
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.
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I thank all the students, colleagues, and manuscript authors whom I witnessed to struggle with the issues discussed here and whose questions brought me to the idea of writing this chapter, Edita Janková Drdová and Lucie Brejšková for critical reading of the manuscript, and the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic for financial support from the NPUI LO1417 project.
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Cvrčková, F. (2019). From Data to Illustrations: Common (Free) Tools for Proper Image Data Handling and Processing. In: Cvrčková, F., Žárský, V. (eds) Plant Cell Morphogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1992. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9469-4_8
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