This macro picture was produce using one or more of the following specific encyclopedic tools:

• the Image:Macro A4.svg file, which when printed upon a A4 page, which provide: 1. a pre-cleaned up background ; 2. a scale all across the page. To use it: print it on an A4 page ; put your subject on your printed page ; shoot ;
  
• some tutorials for image improvement, some basic tutorials and free software to improve your photograph ;
• the Image:Macro scales.svg file: Following image improvements such as background clean up, add the scale ;
• the biologic naming conventions, to ease later download and scientific storage.

And, of course, patience and time.