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Re: RGB Imaging

Posted by Colin Rickman-3 on Feb 04, 2010; 3:52pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/RGB-Imaging-tp3689504p3689507.html

Hi

The displayed colour of the individual R, G and B slices is not
important. The shades of grey you see in the image contain the intensity
value for the respective channel (R, G or B). If you recombined them you
would end up back with the original image.

Colin

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On 04/02/2010 15:45, jspecs wrote:

> Michael,
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> just read the documentation to get a few ideas what could be done:
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> Image>Color>Split Channels
> Analyze>Histogram for each of the channels
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> or
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> Image>Type>HSB stack
> Analyze>Histogram for each of the stack slices.
> Especially the hue slice will be of interest to detect a change of
> hue (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space if you are not
> familiar with HSB)
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>
> I have tried what you mentioned, but both techniques seem to generate
> slices/channels with varying shades of black, gray, or white. This makes me
> think that the histogram will just generate its results based on brightness
> as opposed to RGB. Am I wrong?
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