Re: error: load: ../some image directory/..: inconsistent number of colu

[Quentin Spencer]

shoker_17 wrote:
> Ok...people, thanks for all your assistance and sorry for my poor
> desciptions. 
> My version of Octave is 2.1.72 and yes I was trying perform
> loadimage('cell1.jpg').
>
> May I know why is it that imread() is prefered over loadimage() since they
> perform the same functions?
> I tried opening a file called 'default.img' (which was in my IMAGEPATH) and
> using loadimage(), it worked.
>
> Does it means that loadimage() supports only certain image formats?
>   

Yes--see the help text on loadimage:

octave:1> help loadimage
-- Function File: [X, MAP] = loadimage (FILE)
    Load an image file and it's associated color map from the specified
    FILE.  The image must be stored in Octave's image format.

    See also: saveimage, load, save.