Hi Vivek, Your workflow sort of reminds me of http://xkcd.com/763/ :)
First of all, make sure that you find a way with a minimal number of operations. Every time you do something, you may negatively influence the image quality. Also make sure to always use PNG format for intermediate stages, only writing a JPEG (if necessary) at the final stage. Then, please realize that Powerpoint is not an image processing tool. It's as good for that as Word is. You really need to use an image processing program like the Gimp, Photoshop, Inkscape or Coreldraw. The first of these are pixel based (bitmap) image processing tools, which allow retaining the quality of the image, whereas the latter two are vector based drawing programs, that are specifically equipped for adding labels, arrows and such, while able to import and export bitmap image files. Importing bitmap images in these will retain the resolution and you can specify the output resolution of an exported image, allowing you to accomplish what you want. Alternatively, you can use the vector programs to make an image mask with a transparent background that you can lay over the image using the Gimp, Photoshop, or Imagemagicks convert. Hope it helps, Tsjerk > Once I get a high quality picture from pymol, I want to put some labels, > combine a few of them together, add some arrows and texts, etc. Any > suggestions on what is a good way to do that so that I don't lose resolution > ? I generally crop the pictures in gimp to get rid of the white space > around, then insert them in a powerpoint and resize them to fit a few > together on one slide, then add texts, labels, arrows, etc. Save the slide > in as a jpg and then crop it again. But I believe that even though I starts > with a high resolution pictures created by pymol, I end up with not so good > picture due to the procedure I described above. > > -- > Thank you and Regards, > > Vivek > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. post-doctoral researcher Molecular Dynamics Group Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology University of Groningen The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
