Tell AI what a clean, annotated version should emphasize.
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AI redraws as a diagram
SciFig photo to figure produces schematic output — ready for Methods or Figure sections.
Photo-to-Figure FAQ
Common questions about turning lab photos into reusable illustrated assets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 PNG Output: The isolated result exports as PNG with transparency that drops cleanly onto any figure background without halos. For clean vector edges, open the result in Vector Canvas and run Vectorize to get layered SVG.
Multi-Subject Handling: Two samples in one photo? Isolate them separately and use each independently.
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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.
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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.
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Every format your photo-to-figure asset needs for paper, deck, or poster.
Direct Exports: PNG (recommended for journal submission), JPG (smaller files for sharing or email), and PPTX (a 16:9 PowerPoint slide with the asset embedded — drop straight into a deck).
Vectorize for Layered Editing: Open the result in Vector Canvas and run Vectorize. One pass produces clean SVG (opens in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, or Affinity) plus an editable-shape PPTX where every element is a separately selectable PowerPoint object.
Resolution: PNG/JPG up to 8K — clears 300 DPI at standard journal column widths.
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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.
