Implementing a 3×4 subfigure

subfloats

I would like to implement the following figure in LaTeX, including the axis labels.
(Assume that in this image matrix there are 12 individual square pictures … can I fix the size of the individual square?)

How can this be done? I have worked with the packages graphicx, subcaption and subfigure before, but I do not quite understand them well enough to do this.

The figure should have width=0.8\textwidth and go in between two text paragraphs.

Thank you for any advice.

This is how it should look:

text blablabla

text blablabla

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One way is to put images in table, for example based on tabularray package, and in the first column and row write desired informations about images.
For vertical positioning of images you need to move images baselines to their vertical center. For this is sensible to use package adjustbox. - - By using it, you can also determine common settings for images.
For rotating of texts in the first column are used packages rotating and makecell for the \rothead command:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{tabularray}


\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[ht]
    \settowidth\rotheadsize{merge}
\adjustboxset{width=\linewidth,valign=c}
\begin{tblr}{colsep=1pt,
             colspec = {@{} Q[c,m] *{4}{X[c]} @{} },
             cell{2-Z}{1} = {cmd=\rothead},
             rowsep  = 1pt
             }
        \centering
    & 1:0   & 1000:1    &   100:1   &   10:1            \\
mCh
    &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-a}
        &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-b}
            &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-c}
                &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image}     \\
eGFP
    &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-a}
        &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-b}
            &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-c}
                &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image}     \\
merge
    &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-a}
        &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-b}
            &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image-c}
                &   \adjincludegraphics{example-image}     \\
\end{tblr}
\caption{Caption for figure}
\label{fig:required}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}

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Here is how I would do:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty}
  \centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}\quad
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}
  \caption{Caption about here}
  \label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] custom sub-caption and refs format for subfigures

I don't think using three different formats for the numbering of subfigures is good. Anyway, here it is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=period,justification=centering,singlelinecheck=off}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{rightparen}{#2)}
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{labelformat=rightparen}
\showcaptionsetup[uniq]{subfloat}
\usepackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
\seq_new:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq
\NewDocumentCommand{\xsubfloat}{ m m }
 {
  \akj_subfloat:nn { #1 } { #2 }
 }
\NewDocumentCommand{\makexcaption}{o}
 {
  \caption{\IfNoValueF{#1}{#1~}Subfigures:~%
  \seq_use:Nnnn \g_akj_subfloat_seq {;~} {;~} {;~}}
 }
\cs_new_protected:Npn \akj_subfloat:nn #1 #2
 {
  % initialize
  \int_compare:nT { \value{subfigure} = 0 }
   { \seq_gclear:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq }
  % do the subfloat
  \subfloat[]{#2}
  % store the subcaption
  \seq_gput_right:Nx \g_akj_subfloat_seq { (\exp_not:N\textit{\alph{subfigure}}) ~ \exp_not:n { #1 } }
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\renewcommand{\thesubfigure}{\textit{\alph{subfigure}}}
\makeatletter
\def\p@subfigure{\thefigure\,}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\xsubfloat{subfigure A}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-a}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure B}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-b}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure C}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-c}%
}
\makexcaption\label{fig:figures}
\end{figure}

See Figures~\ref{fig:subfig-a}, \ref{fig:subfig-b} and~\ref{fig:subfig-c}.
\end{document}

The \makexcaption command has also an optional argument for text going before the list of subcaptions, so

\makexcaption[Some text.]

would produce

Figure 1. Some text. Subfigures: (a) subfigure A; (b) subfigure B; (c) subfigure C

Beware of unprotected end-of-lines in the arguments of \subfloat, that are the cause of your spurious spaces.

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