MATLAB: Save Image with drawn shape not with original resolution

Image Processing Toolboxsave image with shape

Hi there, I was trying to save an image with color drawn shape (such as a rectangular) as tiff or png file. However the saved image is not as the same resolution as the orignal image, seems being compressed a lot. Here are the steps:
1. read in an image with size 7000*2000 uint 8. Matlab shows "Image is too big to fit on screen; displaying at 8%." 2. draw a red rectangular 3. Save the fig using "export_fig" or "InsertInImage" function. The saved image appears with much lower resolution comparing to the original grayscale image.
Could you please advice what would be the best way to save such image? Thank you, Ellen

Best Answer

Save image with imwrite function!
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