I just returned from an Editor’s Forum where editors of Radiology journals meet to discuss issues, ideas, problems and other things related to publication.  It’s always educational, exciting, and stimulating.  This year we worked on “figures”.  How do we get figures in the correct resolution and size for publication from PACS?  It turns out that Tony Seibert has agreed to do five online tutorials on this issue and more.  The first three tutorials are published on the SIIM web site at www.siimweb.org/e-tutorials.  You will find a tutorial on image characteristics – that tricky question of how the size of a pixel in the PACS world translates to dots per inch for publishing.  The next two tutorials are demonstrations of capturing images and then manipulating them for publication using open-source or free software.  We are all aware that Photoshop, the “gold standard” of image manipulation is expensive and complex and Tony has made the process of preparing figures simple, affordable, accessible for all authors.  Check it out and watch for his next installments on graphs, line drawings and powerpoint.  Next time we’ll talk about how much manipulation is ethically allowed.