Saved Matrix as Image does not give me the right pixels

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Hi there,
currently I am trying to save a (100 x 100) matrix in one .tif image.
When opening this image, it occurs that it has 1200 x 900 pixels eventhough it should be 100 x 100.
Nsub = 100
Q = reshape(Isub(:,:,is)(:,j),[Nsub,Nsub]); % Q has the size of 100 x 100.
% Output data as a figure
figure()
%set_x_axis = [ -Nsub Nsub];
%set_y_axis = set_x_axis
imagesc(Q);
newmap = contrast(Q); % Change into greyscale
colormap(newmap);
set(gca,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
save_in_folder = "C:/Users/TestImages";
file = sprintf("%s/%dmm/tif/%03d.tif", save_in_folder, List_of_foldernames(is),k);
saveas(imagesc(Q), file);
Has anyone an idea why?

Answers (1)

Subhadeep Koley
Subhadeep Koley on 27 May 2020
Hakan, you are getting a 1200-by-900 image because you're saving the entire figure window in the tif file. If you only need to save the image, refer the code below,
nSub = 100;
% Creating a random image
img = rand(nSub);
% Visualize the image
figure
imagesc(img)
newMap = contrast(img);
colormap(newMap);
% Write the image and its associated colormap
imwrite(im2uint8(img), newMap, 'yourFile.tif')
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Hakan Östen
Hakan Östen on 28 May 2020
Edited: Hakan Östen on 28 May 2020
When Q is outputted as a figure in a popup, it works fine.
It seems that imwrite does not work properly. The image is stored empty. No information seems to get out.
Edited: I found the issue. The matrix did not have a scale of 0 255 pixels. I used
uint8(255*mat2gray(Q))
to fix it.
Thanks Subhadeep.
Subhadeep Koley
Subhadeep Koley on 28 May 2020
@ Hakan Östen You tried this?
imwrite(rescale(img, 0, 255), newMap, 'yourFile.tif')

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