Re: Overlay Scalebar Plugins

Posted by Divakar Ramachandran-2 on May 20, 2011; 3:15pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Overlay-Scalebar-Plugins-tp3684468p3684472.html

On Thursday 19 May 2011 07:32 AM, Lim Soon Yew wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to add an overlay scalebar to a fluorescent image as a length reference. Is there a plugin similar to "ScaleBar Plus" that can be used to add an overlay scale bar to an image? I need the scale bar to be an overlay as the image will be used for farther processing.
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> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> John Lim
A couple of thoughts on this: Yes, it would be useful. I usually have
around three versions of each image - a raw image as obtained from a
microscope, a TIFF version after applying calibration information and a
JPG version with the scale bar burned in. If it were possible to have
the scale bar in the overlay I could store a single version in TIFF
format (other formats would not store the overlay separately). But ...
the overlay is monochrome (?), and would it print well? and give me the
option of viewing / processing with / without the scale bar?

Divakar