# Alternative to using get() in a big PGraphics

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**Created:** [August 15, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/alternative-to-using-get-in-a-big-pgraphics/2654 "2018-08-15T07:19:34Z")\
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> [@Extension\_Shoe](#):
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> Sorry for wasting your time but what is the syntax for the 9 argument image function?

[http://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PGraphics.html#image-processing.core.PImage-float-float-float-float-int-int-int-int-](http://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PGraphics.html#image-processing.core.PImage-float-float-float-float-int-int-int-int-)

First 4 floats are the rectangle that you want to draw the image (or part of it) into, as x, y, width and height. The 4 ints are the coordinates of the two points in the source image that define the region. Note that the last two arguments are the absolute coordinates _not_ the width and height of the source region.

eg. to draw a region 200,150 of your map with top left 400,300 at 100,100 on screen you would use

```java
image(map, 100, 100, 200, 150, 400, 300, 600, 450);

```

For some reason this isn’t on the image() page at [image() / Reference / Processing.org](https://processing.org/reference/image_.html) Seems to be an odd omission.

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