I needed labels on each of my pictures to enable me to easily identify them when referencing my figure. I used the text feature on Inkscape and typed the letter “A” off to the side of the figure. The letter would be hard to see on top of my pictures, therefore I used the rectangle and square feature to create a box around the letter. I edited the box to obtain a white background allowing the black font letter to be easily visible. I selected the letter “A”, raised it to the top of the box and centered the letter using the alignment settings on Inkscape. To move the letter in the box as a full unit, I selected both and grouped them. This label is now completed, yet I needed four additional labels for the rest of my pictures. I selected the “A” label and duplicated it four times. The text feature was used to edit the duplicates to display letters “B-E”. The labels were then positioned in the top left corner of each picture. Lastly, I believed an arrow pointing to the corner of the groove in the wall that the spider was found would be necessary to the readers understanding of the location. The straight line feature was used to make a diagonal line that was around one inch in length. I thickened the line and added an arrow marker to the end. The arrow was positioned pointing down, from the top right side, to the bottom left corner in the hallway that the spider was found.
My figure was finished and ready to be saved and exported. First, I selected document properties to resize page to content. This allowed my image to be the same size as a piece of paper. I set the background color to be white by selecting the bottom “A” column and moving the curser to the right. This ensured that my figure was not transparent. I saved my figure with the title of my username, followed by “-original.svg”. Lastly, I exported my figure as a PNG and set my image width to 1200 pixels. My multi-panel figure of my spider web and its location was complete and exported.
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