Eli M. Sarnat

Taking morphometric measurements using specimen photographs from Eli Sarnat on Vimeo.

In this tutorial I use Adobe Photoshop cs6 Extended Version and a specimen photograph of an ant head to take morphometric measurements. I set a custom measurement scale in Photoshop calibrated to the scale bar embedded in the photograph, then record the measurement taken by using the Ruler Tool. Remember, the measurement will only be as accurate as the scale bar embedded in the photograph. So if the scale bar was not calibrated correctly at the time the photograph was taken, any derivative measurements will also be inaccurate.