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Re: Saved image includes Pixel Inspection Tool marker

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Feb 13, 2020; 3:32pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Saved-image-includes-Pixel-Inspection-Tool-marker-tp5022932p5022941.html

On Thursday, 13 February 2020 14:52:28 GMT you wrote:
> I understand your use case for overlays, and that seems entirely
> reasonable to me.  But in my case, I didn't create any overlays, and
> I didn't add any markings nor annotations.

Hi Lewis, well, the tool you chose uses overlays and that is what matters;
that is how it works.
Any tool/plugin/script that uses overlays will behave like that.
It is documented that overlays are burnt into the jpeg or png files, so it is
definitely not a bug. Maybe you could say "unexpected behaviour", but since
you now know about it, it is not so unexpected anymore.

> I simply used the Pixel
> Inspection Tool to inspect a pixel in the image, yet when I saved the
> image

Yes, the issue is that you chose to save in a format which burns in the
overlays. Save as Tiff and you will be fine.

If you really need to save in jpeg without overlays there are many ways to do
this:
* reload the saved Tiff and re-save as jpeg, or
* switch the overlays off and save, or
* switch off the pixel inspector and save, or
* duplicate the original and run the pixel inspector in the copy and save the
original.

Hope it helps

Gabriel

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