Convert Color to Bone colormap

I would like to load a .jpg picture and convert it to grayscale using the bone colormap. Is this possible? I need to have blue/dark blue approach white and red/dark red approach black, or vice versa.

Thanks,

Joe

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If your image was originally an indexed image that was displayed (and saved) with the "bone" map, then you can reverse the color mapping and get back to the indexed image using:

indexedImage = rgb2ind(YourRGBImage, bone);

Once you have done that conversion, you can convert to an arbitrary new color map and convert that result to grayscale, by using

grayImage = ind2gray(indexedImage, NewMap);

For example, your NewMap could effectively be a gamma adjustment.

If you were custom-creating the new map and if it was just as easy to do it in gray in the first place, then you could make it a simple vector of gray levels, and use

grayImage = NewGMap(1+indexedImage);

[Joe Tomaino]

Thanks Walter, I'm pretty sure that's the right thing to do, but the final image looks terrible. (I had to take a screen shot of the image, so I don't think Matlab is happy with it). I really appreciate your answer, thanks again!

[Walter Roberson]

Perhaps instead of a screen shot, you could use print() with a resolution, or use Oliver's contribution export_fig, http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23629

Answer 2

[Rick Rosson]

Please try:

   doc rgb2gray

HTH.

[Walter Roberson]

That is suitable for RGB images, but not for using a particular color map.