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<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Scott,<div>The best way is with a camera lucida - this take practice and a little instruction. Then you can ink your drawings by hand using vellum and scan them into the computer or better yet, scan your pencil sketches into the computer and use them to make Adobe Illustrator line drawings with the pen (or pencil more complicated) tool. A drawing pad helps with this immensely. Once you have an Illustrator file you can resize, reorient, change line weight, change color, and compile figures endlessly - the flexibility makes it well worth the steep learning curve and cost of Illustrator. You can also do this from photos but the problem with photos is that you have a single, usually narrow focal plane which doesn't lend itself well to illustrations which you want to be a bit 3-D. The one thing that Illustrator line drawings can't do well is stippling but there are a couple ways to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>Good photos often suffice and lack the interpretation by the illustrator that is inherent in line drawings. Be sure photos are well labeled and clear. I like the combination of a photo and line drawing interpretation next to it of it to map out what the viewer is looking at.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck,</div><div>Karen</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Scott Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi!<div><br></div><div>I would like to survey the list for the most common and/or most effective way for non-illustrators to generate illustrations of specimens for publication.</div><div><br></div><div>Do most of you rely on the camera lucida?</div> <div><br></div><div>What about importing digital images into editing software such as Illustrator to create line drawings?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Jones</div><div><br></div> <span><ATT00001.txt></span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; 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