Re: photoshop style layering

Posted by Justin McGrath-2 on May 13, 2009; 10:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/photoshop-style-layering-tp3692542p3692545.html

Since ImageJ is an image analysis program and not an image editing program,
I don't think it works well for creating figures.  If you want something
roughly along the lines of Photoshop without the hefty price tag, The GIMP
is suitable.

Justin

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Alexander wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You can (ab)use TrakEM2 for that...
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>