Plotting (and saving) a figure with a black background
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Hi again,
I have another plotting question; I have 4 subplots and I want one of them to have a black background. Since I only want one to have the black background I can't use colordef.
I have tried:
set(subplot(vertical,horizontal,figure_name),'Color','k')
and:
set(gca,'color','black')
These both work to colour the subplot in the figure window but when I save the figure (as a .png) the saved subplot has a white background. I have also tried plotting a massive black patch that covers the plot area - but this also gets missed or overwritten when saving the figure!
If there are any other commands/ways to change the background colour I would love to know them.
As always any help is greatly appreciated.
Rod.
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Image Analyst
on 2 Dec 2013
You accepted the wrong answer. There is a way to do it. this works just fine:
subplot(2,2,1);
subplot(2,2,2);
subplot(2,2,3);
subplot(2,2,4);
set(gca,'color','black')
export_fig('yourfigure.png');
export_fig() is available here: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/ It's the most downloaded File Exchange submission ever, for a reason.
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James Heagy
on 7 Jan 2022
While export_fig will do the job, I find that the default settings are not always ideal. If you wanted a plot with white dots on a black background you can simply do this:
h=figure(1);
plot(x,y,'w.');
set(gca,'color',[0 0 0])
set(h,'InvertHardcopy','off')
print(h,figfname,'-dtiffn');
I use -dtiffn to get a super high-res plot, then I generally open the file in Preview (on the Mac - not sure what to use on other platforms) and export the plot as a jpg.
The result from export_fig(figfname,'-tif'), by comparison, is unacceptable for publication, IMHO.
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Image Analyst
on 7 Jan 2022
Now you can use the built-in exportgraphics() for almost every situation.
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