photoshop style layering

Posted by John Alexander-7 on May 13, 2009; 3:14pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/photoshop-style-layering-tp3692542.html

Hi group,

I'm making a figure and I realize that I use imageJ for
everything except for assembling the final figure layout.  
That's because imageJ does not have an easy layer style
approach to moving objects around on an image.

For example, in photoshop, I can paste an image down, and
position it.  I can then paste a second image down and
position it.  It is easy to switch between the first and
second images, and adjust their positions accordingly.  This
goes on and on - and ultimately I have a PSD file with dozens
of layers that I can easily move around.

In imageJ, once I paste something, I can move it around, but,
when I'm done it's position is set in stone.

I realize that imageJ does have the components to act like
photoshop - in essence, a multi-layer tiff as the layers and
a z-projection as the final image.  What would be needed is a
"layer view" and a "z-projection view" in parallel.  with an
easy way to "add layer" and to move layers around.

does anyone know of a simple way of accomplishing this in
imageJ?  I'd really prefer to use it for all my needs.

John

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