Re: [Matplotlib-users] Watermarking figures/axes

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"Anthony Floyd" <ant...@gm...> writes:

> I would like to 'watermark' a plot. That is, display an image 'under'
> several lines. [...] I've tried using figure.figimage, but that only
> draws the watermark 'outside' the plot area. Fair enough.

The background of the axes object is called a "frame", and you want to
not draw it at all (pass frameon=False to add_axes) or make it
translucent:

fig=figure(...)
fig.figimage(...)
ax=fig.add_subplot(...)
ax.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)

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