Examples of continuum emission for six sources in the ALMAGAL sample. Upper row: continuum maps of two example sources with large diffuse emission outside the cores. Middle row: continuum maps of two example sources for which the diffuse emission is present but more restricted in area. Lower row: continuum maps of two example sources in which the continuum emission is well described by the mask of all compact sources only (the mask_ext, is plotted in dashed white for reference). Red contour: mask_comp., white contour: mask_ext. (see Section 4.4). The continuum image color scales are in Jy/beam.