Overlay strain map on scan (colored plot over black and white plot)

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I am attempting to make a graphic for a presentation in which I would like to throw a strain map over a black and white image used for texture correlation. I currently have been unable to create separate colorbars, resulting in a colored scan or a black and white strain map. I've attached an image of what I'm moreorless trying to capture but can't seem to produce.
The code below takes a 400x200 uint8 (for the BW image), and a 400x200 double (for the strain map). The values outside of the strain map in the structure are labeled as NaN. Likewise, transparency is currently set to 1s and 0s accordingly. I haven't included any of my own data here for a reference image or for running the code for privacy reasons.
f3 = figure( 3 );
%Exx strain map
image( dataIMG( :, :, frame ) ); hold on;
imagesc( exx_plot, 'AlphaData', transparency );
colormap( 'jet' );
caxis( [0 0.15] );
colorbar;

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DGM
DGM on 9 Jun 2022
Edited: DGM on 9 Jun 2022
Take the image you want to be grayscale and expand it to mxnx3 so that it isn't colormapped anymore:
For example,
% a grayscale image with some transparency
FG = imread('fg.png');
FGA = imread('fga.png');
opacity = 0.5;
% a grayscale image, but expanded
BG = imread('cameraman.tif');
BG = repmat(BG,[1 1 3]);
imshow(BG); hold on
hfg = imshow(FG);
hfg.AlphaData = FGA*opacity;
colormap(parula)
If you want both images to be colormapped independently, then you'll have to do it by overlaying two axes objects, since each axes can only have one colormap.
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Frederick Houghton
Frederick Houghton on 9 Jun 2022
Worked perfectly, thank you!
For anyone that may reference this post: FGA.png is simply a transparency matrix that labels the values to show on the plot and their opacity. For my purposes, I detected where my strain map fit onto the image and filled the borders with NaN values, and then set the strain map to 0.5 as suggested in this answer.

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