Photoshopping label onto graph For a project, I noticed really around an hour or so before my deadline was due that some of my graphs lacked units when I labeled the axes. In the interest of time, I decided to add units to the plots manually using photoshop. The deadline has now passed, and I’m worried if this is considered academic misconduct or something. The data I used complies with the labels I gave the graphs manually, and I haven’t done anything to change my data in any way with the image editing program other than to simply add the units of some of the labels. The only thing I’ve done is to write the axes labels myself instead of telling Python to. 

I can’t find any policy on this on my university website. Should I be worried? Could this be considered falsification of data or some other form of academic misconduct), even if the units I’m adding are literally the appropriate units?
My interpretation of the question is:  


  I was told it is unethical to photoshop my data.  Is it ethical to use Photoshop software to make a graph?


The choice of software used is completely irrelevant to the ethics of any scientific image.  You can use python, Photoshop, or crayon.  If the image is drawn correctly, it is okay.

If the contents of the image is false, that is never okay.  It is much worse if it is deliberately false.  When people say it is unethical to photoshop, they mean that it is unethical to lie.  They do not mean you cannot make truthful images using the Photoshop brand software.