From lab photo
to publishable figure.

Snap a photo. SciFig photo to figure gives you a publication-ready illustrated asset.

• From Real Life to Vector: Photograph your lab rig, sample, gel, plant, animal, or microscope view. SciFig converts it into a clean, editable illustrated asset in minutes.
• No Design Skills: You don't need Illustrator's pen tool or a drawing tablet. Point, shoot, upload — SciFig does the illustration.
• Publication-Style, Not a Photo: Output is a consistent, journal-grade vector illustration — not a raw photo with clutter and lighting issues.

Yes. Build your own lab asset library in an afternoon.

• Niche Equipment Covered: Mass spec, bioreactor, custom rig, field sampler, or any lab-specific instrument BioRender doesn't carry. Photograph it once, use it forever.
• Reusable Across Papers: Each generated asset is a reusable vector file. Drop the same illustrated mass spec into every future methods figure.
• Lab-Specific Branding: Build a coherent set of assets unique to your lab — your figures stop looking generic.

Yes. From petri dish to field site, SciFig photo to figure covers it.

• Biological Subjects: Tissues, organoids, plates, bacterial colonies, plants, insects, animals, field sites — all convert into clean illustrated vectors.
• Preserves Distinct Morphology: Unlike generic AI art, Photo-to-Figure keeps species-specific features that matter — streptococci show up as chains, not single cells.
• Ready for Methods Figures: Illustrated samples look consistent across panels — no more mixing iPhone photos with stock illustrations.

Yes. Automatic. No manual masking.

• One-Click Isolation: Upload a cluttered bench-top photo. SciFig removes the background automatically — no Photoshop lasso, no marching ants.
• Transparent Output: Export as PNG with transparency or SVG with clean edges. Drop onto any figure background without halos.
• Multi-Subject Handling: Two samples in one photo? Isolate them separately and use each independently.

Raw photos look amateur in a paper. Scientific figure illustrations from SciFig photo to figure don't.

• No Lighting Clashes: Photos have inconsistent exposure, shadows, and clutter. Illustrated assets share one visual language across every panel.
• No Copyright Ambiguity: Stock-photo-looking figures get reviewer scrutiny. Illustrated assets are unambiguously yours.
• Fully Editable on Demand: Photos are locked pixels. Illustrated assets can be fully edited — recolor, resize, relabel without quality loss.

Yes, at every level — shape, color, label, size.

• Separable Parts: Each component of the asset is its own vector object. Edit the microscope eyepiece without touching the base.
• Recolor for Journal Consistency: Match your target journal's preset or your lab's own palette in one click across every asset.
• Zero Quality Loss: Scale from 1" thumbnail to A0 poster — vectors stay sharp at every size.

Every photo to figure export format your paper, slides, or poster needs.

• Editable Vector: SVG — drop the asset into any illustration tool and keep editing.
• Transparent Raster: PNG up to 8K with transparency — lands cleanly on any figure background without halos. JPG available if you don't need transparency.
• Slide-Ready: Native PPTX with each asset as a grouped PowerPoint shape — resize, recolor, relabel without round-tripping.

Yes. Your lab photos, samples, and equipment stay confidential.

• Never Training Data: Photographs of your rig, samples, or whiteboards are used only to generate your asset — never fed back into any model.
• Face & ID Safe: Accidentally photographed a colleague or a monitor with sensitive text? Use one-click background removal before processing — the subject is isolated, the rest never leaves.
• Yours to Delete: Remove any uploaded photo from our servers — zero retention.