Which is the best Free Illustration Software available to convert microscopic entomological structures to line drawings?
How can we make scientific Illustrations from microscope images other than by focus stacking from the image camera?
Hi there,
for entomological illustrations I use a combinations of GIMP (https://www.gimp.org) and Inkscape (https://inkscape.org).
These are both free software and Inkscape makes awesome line drawings.
If you want to get started with Inkscape, this is a wonderful tutorial (http://trichopterology.blogspot.com/2017/05/using-inkscape-for-biological.html).
The easiest way, from a microscope picture, is to draw ON the picture and then remove the picture and start adding shadows and other particulars. The tutorial i linked you is quite helpful in this!
Hope this helps!
Hi there,
for entomological illustrations I use a combinations of GIMP (https://www.gimp.org) and Inkscape (https://inkscape.org).
These are both free software and Inkscape makes awesome line drawings.
If you want to get started with Inkscape, this is a wonderful tutorial (http://trichopterology.blogspot.com/2017/05/using-inkscape-for-biological.html).
The easiest way, from a microscope picture, is to draw ON the picture and then remove the picture and start adding shadows and other particulars. The tutorial i linked you is quite helpful in this!
Hope this helps!
Sorry, this is the updated version (V.1.1) of the tutorial!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Z8EUgUvWOvS2oxa2RQVDJsNTQ/view
you can use a camera lucida and draw manually by pojection on a paper. It has been for decades and works perfectly.
I recommend having it done by a professional graphic designer. The best tools won’t automatically produce high-end graphics. Check this: https://www.easyresearcher.com/
I use paintnet ( https://paintnet.fr/ ). It's like gimp
So Elsevier smart art can help à lot for biological and medical picture. https://smart.servier.com/
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