creating 5 or more channel composites

[Aryeh Weiss]

Is there a way to create a composite image  from existing stacks with more
than 4 channels at one time?
I can use File>New>Hyperstack  and then paste in the stacks, but I wonder
if there is something similar to Image>Color>Merge...
(which allows me to create 4 channel composites).

The motivation for this was to add a channel to an existing hyperstack  by
appending a stack with the same z dimensions.
I figured that I could split channels and then assemble the new hyperstack.
In fact, this is what I do for up to 4 channels.

--aryeh
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Aryeh Weiss
School of Engineering
Bar Ilan University

[Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Aryeh Weiss wrote:

> Is there a way to create a composite image  from existing stacks with more
> than 4 channels at one time?
> I can use File>New>Hyperstack  and then paste in the stacks, but I wonder
> if there is something similar to Image>Color>Merge...
> (which allows me to create 4 channel composites).
>
> The motivation for this was to add a channel to an existing hyperstack  by
> appending a stack with the same z dimensions.
> I figured that I could split channels and then assemble the new hyperstack.
> In fact, this is what I do for up to 4 channels.

The Image>Color>Merge Channels command in the ImageJ 1.46h daily build works with up to 7 channels.

-wayne

[Aryeh Weiss]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Aryeh Weiss wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to create a composite image  from existing stacks with
> more
> > than 4 channels at one time?
> > I can use File>New>Hyperstack  and then paste in the stacks, but I wonder
> > if there is something similar to Image>Color>Merge...
> > (which allows me to create 4 channel composites).
> >
> > The motivation for this was to add a channel to an existing hyperstack
>  by
> > appending a stack with the same z dimensions.
> > I figured that I could split channels and then assemble the new
> hyperstack.
> > In fact, this is what I do for up to 4 channels.
>
> The Image>Color>Merge Channels command in the ImageJ 1.46h daily build
> works with up to 7 channels.
>
>

Thank you Wayne (yet again) for so quickly adding yet another featrue that
I needed.
Works as advertised...

--aryeh

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