How to put tick in front of a picture?

I would like to use imagesc but it covers xticks, yticks. Is it possible to uncover them?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Using the Layer axis property also works:

PB2 = imread('Cj0MdYJUoAAReUH.jpg');

figure(1)
imagesc(PB2)
set(gca, 'Layer','top')

[Image Analyst]

Nice picture. Is that your family? Where are their hats?

[Star Strider]

Thank you!

I wish!

We share the hat! (I was wearing it just then so the sunlight wouldn’t interfere with my seeing the image on my phone.)

[Image Analyst]

Now your tick marks are on the inside of the axes box, and mine are on the outside. I know that you can set a default in setiptprefs() for whether or not you want the tick marks and labels to be shown by default when you call imshow(). But after a quick look in the help I didn't see where you could set the tick mark style as 'outside', 'inside', or 'crossing' though I think it's there somewhere. Do you know how to do that?

[Star Strider]

In R2016b (and the other more recent releases), that would be:

set(gca, 'TickDir', 'out')

or:

set(gca, 'TickDir', 'both')

I tested these and will post the results if you want me to. This is in the Axis Properties documentation.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Use imshow followed by axis on:

imshow(yourImage);
axis on;

You'll get tick marks outside the axes box (which you can also turn on or off if you want).

[Adam Danz]

How can this answer not have 1000 votes?