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Methods (Draft 2)

Submitted by nalexandroum on Wed, 02/13/2019 - 13:49

To make the figure, I imported the four pictures into Pages. I clicked on each picture and dragged the corners to resize the pictures so that they each had a width of 3 inches, and also cropped each image to a width of 3 inches. I arranged the pictures in a square by putting the picture of the apple alone in the top left corner, the picture of the subject alone in the top right corner, the picture of the interaction in the bottom left corner, and the apple alone after the interaction in the bottom right corner. I dragged the cursor to select all four pictures at once, right-clicked and selected “Group” to make the four individual pictures into one single image. I inserted a text box in the lower right corner of each photo. In each text box I typed a label for each image: “a.”, “b.”, “c.”, “d.”. Each letter was lowercase and followed by a period, in 15pt Times New Roman font, and had a centered alignment. I arranged the letters such that the picture with the apple alone was  “a.”, the picture with the subject alone was “b.”, and the pictures with the interaction and the aftermath of the interaction were “c.” and “d.” respectively. I selected a text box, opened the “Format and Style Options” tab in the upper right corner of the document, then selected “Style”, and from the available options I picked the shape style with the black background and white text. I repeated this for each text box. I moved each label to be flush against the lower right corner of its respective picture, and resized the labels so that they each had a width of 0.60 inches and a height of 0.54 inches. I used the cursor to select the entire image, right-clicked and selected “Group” to integrate the labels into the final image. I went to File, “Export to” and selected “PDF”, setting the image quality to “Best”. I opened the .pdf file that was generated, and used the crop tool in the toolbox to select just the image and crop it. I saved the image—now without the white document background—and the figure was complete.

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