Methods Very Rough Draft

Notes for METHODS:

• 1st I found my specimen that has leafminers on it

• I took a couple pictures with my phone, the first one being the main plant with the affected area being visible, and a second one where I had a close up shot on the affected leaf with an object held right next to the leaf for size comparison

• Created a folder on the desktop where I stored all documents regarding the project 

•  I used my phone to email the pictures I took to myself so I could download them to the computer

• I downloaded the pictures and moved them to the designated folder on my desktop

• I used Inkscape to make my multi-panel figure

•  Imported pictures from my phone to the computer by emailing the photos to myself on my phone and opening up the email on the computer and then downloading

• First I imported the picture of the main plant with the affected area being visible and locked it to keep the scale

• I then shrank it down and aligned its top left corner to the left corner of what will eventually be the multi-figure panel

• I then used a drawing tool to draw an arrow to point to the affected area, I painted the arrow yellow to make it visible and to make it stand out

• Next I imported the picture of the close up on the leaf with an object (mechanical pencil 15 cm) for size comparison

• Again I locked the scale and aligned the top right corner to the top right corner of the multi-panel figure page

• Since my two pictures where different sizes I matched the height of the second picture to the height of the first one. (Only do this if the two pictures have different scales when fit into the page)

• Making the second picture bigger caused it to overlap over the first one, to fix this I brought the first picture up a layer

• Finally, I used a website to download a picture of the area on campus where I found my subject and I imported it to Inkscape

• One more time, I locked the scale and fit it into the picture