How to give colorbar to a tif image in Matlab

x = imread('C:\Users\user\Desktop\PHD EXP Work\ACLPP\9air.tif');

imshow(x);

colorbar;

Answer 1

[Sulaymon Eshkabilov]

Have tried this syntax:

[X,Cmap]= imread('IMAGE.tif'); 
image(X); 
colormap(Cmap);

[Shilpa S]

I tried it. only got x-y axis with some numbers

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

If the tif is rgb then there is no meaningful colorbar for it.

If the tif is not rgb then imshow would have automatically used colormap(grey) and colorbar() would draw the grayscale.