percentage of area

Posted by michele on Jul 16, 2014; 10:34am
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Hi, I have to calculate the area of the blacks stones compared to all other. This is my original image


Imposed on the measurement scale with the command set scale, then I select a square and I click on image-crop:


With a command color threshold I select the stones:


I convert the image to 8bit and I apply the threshold command:


Finally, with the command Analyze Particles:


The percentage of area in my opinion isn’t good, it seems to refer to the entire picture and not just the stones initially selected. How can I do?