subplot question - with image and plot

I'm using a subplot but I want to use imshow(img) in one section of the subplot and want to simply 'plot()' something in another section. Does this work? Whatever examples I have seen on MATLAB pages is either all should have imshow or all should have plot. both don't work together it seems?!

Answer 1

[Tommy]

This is possible by setting the parent axes in your call to imshow:

subplot(1,2,1);
plot(rand(10,1));
ax = subplot(1,2,2);
imshow('peppers.png', 'Parent', ax);

[Image Analyst]

In that case, you don't even need to worry about Parent and ax -- it will show the image in the second subplot even without using them.

subplot(1,2,1);
plot(rand(10,1));
subplot(1,2,2);
imshow('peppers.png');

I do it all the time.

[Tommy]

Oh nice thanks for the tip! I shouldn't have assumed it would be needed.

Besides looks like I may have misinterpreted the Q, whoops.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

If you have a subplot and want to show both an image and a plot in the subplot, please see my attached inset demos.