# Coloring Segments

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/coloring-segments/35497>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** color\
**Created:** [April 15, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/coloring-segments/35497 "2024-04-15T15:30:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ljuno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@ljuno](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ljuno)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/coloring-segments/35497/1 "2024-04-15T15:30:06Z")

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Hello, I am fairly new to 3D slicer and wanted to know if I could use different colors to highlight the nerves in my project:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/7/4/743be82e7fa9f7ebfcd75844189cc000d32e682f.png)

I made the whole brain as one segment, so I am unable to just change the color of the specific lobes/nerves I want to change different colors. Is it possible to use, for example, the paint brush tool (or something similar) to manually highlight the sections I want in a different color than the green that the entire brain is in?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/coloring-segments/35497/2 "2024-04-15T21:27:42Z")

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Please read the Segmentation section of SLicer User manual [Image Segmentation — 3D Slicer documentation](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/image_segmentation.html#basic-concepts)

and SlicerMorph segmentation tutorial [Tutorials/Segmentation/README.md at main · SlicerMorph/Tutorials · GitHub](https://github.com/SlicerMorph/Tutorials/blob/main/Segmentation/README.md)