Publications involving fluorescent microscopy images generally contain many panels with split channels, merged images, scale bars and label text. Similar layouts of panels are used when displaying other microscopy images, electron micrographs, photographs, and other images. Assembling and editing these figures with even spacing, consistent font, text position, accurate scale bars, and other features can be tedious and time consuming. In order to save time, I have created a toolset and ImageJ Plugin called QuickFigures. QuickFigures includes many helpful features that streamline the process of creating, aligning, and editing scientific figures. Those features include tools that automatically create split channel figures from a region of interest ("Quick Figure" button and "Inset Tool"), layouts that make it easy to rearrange panels, multiple tools to align objects, and "Figure Format" menu options that help a user ensure that large numbers of figures have consistent appearance. QuickFigures was compared to previous tools by measuring the amount of time needed for a user to create a figure using each software (QuickFigures, OMERO.figure. EZFig, FigureJ and PowerPoint). QuickFigures significantly reduced the amount of time required to create a figure. The toolsets were also compared by checking each software against a list of features. QuickFigures had the most extensive set of features. Therefore, QuickFigures is an advantageous alternative to traditional methods of constructing scientific figures. After a user has saved time by creating their work in QuickFigures, the figures can be exported to a variety of formats including PowerPoint, PDF, SVG, PNG, TIFF and Adobe Illustrator. Export was successfully tested for each file format and object type. Exported objects and text are editable in their target software, making them suitable for sharing with collaborators. The software is free, open source and can be installed easily.

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QuickFigures：一个工具包和 ImageJ 插件，用于将显微镜图像快速转换为科学图形。

涉及荧光显微镜图像的出版物通常包含许多带有拆分通道、合并图像、比例尺和标签文本的面板。当显示其他显微镜图像、电子显微照片、照片和其他图像时，使用类似的面板布局。以均匀的间距、一致的字体、文本位置、准确的比例尺和其他功能来组装和编辑这些图形可能既乏味又耗时。为了节省时间，我创建了一个名为 QuickFigures 的工具集和 ImageJ 插件。QuickFigures 包含许多有用的功能，可简化创建、对齐和编辑科学数据的过程。这些功能包括从感兴趣区域自动创建分割通道图形的工具（“快速图形”按钮和“插入工具”），易于重新排列面板的布局，对齐对象的多种工具，以及帮助用户确保大量图形具有一致外观的“图形格式”菜单选项。通过测量用户使用每个软件（QuickFigures、OMERO.figure、EZFig、FigureJ 和 PowerPoint）创建图形所需的时间，将 QuickFigures 与以前的工具进行了比较。QuickFigures 显着减少了创建图形所需的时间。还通过根据功能列表检查每个软件来比较工具集。QuickFigures 具有最广泛的功能集。因此，QuickFigures 是构建科学图形的传统方法的一个有利替代方案。在用户通过在 QuickFigures 中创建作品节省时间后，这些图形可以导出为多种格式，包括 PowerPoint、PDF、SVG、PNG、TIFF 和 Adob​​e Illustrator。每种文件格式和对象类型的导出都已成功测试。导出的对象和文本可在其目标软件中进行编辑，使其适合与协作者共享。该软件是免费的、开源的，并且可以轻松安装。