Figure making

ScientiFig is a free tool to help you create, format or reformat scientific figures. It comes either as a stand alonesoftware, either as a Fiji/IJ plugin.

This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.

CLI

example

gimp -i -b '(simple-unsharp-mask "foo.png" 5.0 0.5 0)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'

More details, see here: GIMP Batch Mode

This plugin achieves easy creation of image figures for publications, reports, projects.

• Easy-to-design interactive figure layout.

• Visually assign image content to panels.

• High-quality image scaling and rotation.

• Easy and consistent panel labels and scale bars.

• Each panel has it's original datasource's properties and tracks achieved image processing.

• Save and re-open editable figures.

• Export as standard image formats with textual description of each panel history.

Compared to Make montage, the plugin adds more flexibility to montage creation: Easy-to-design interactive figure layout. Visually assign image content to panels. High-quality image scaling and rotation. Easy and consistent panel labels and scale bars. Each panel has it's original data source's properties and tracks achieved image processing. Save and re-open editable figures. Export as standard image formats with textual description of each panel history. 

This tool adds to ImageJ functions to build and organize montages. It comes with the ImageJ installer but can also be downloaded from the ImageJ wiki. A video tutorial is available.

OMERO.figure is an OMERO web application that makes generating figures from images in an OMERO image database very quick and easy. The images in the figure link back to the original data, greatly simplifying the process of adjusting the view and keeping track of original data. PDF documents are generated, which can be opened using e.g. Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape in order to produce the final finished figure.