# How to set volume rendering color same as in slices?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-set-volume-rendering-color-same-as-in-slices/22020>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** volume-rendering\
**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-set-volume-rendering-color-same-as-in-slices/22020 "2022-02-17T11:05:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-set-volume-rendering-color-same-as-in-slices/22020/2 "2022-02-17T13:47:48Z")

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See if you can replicate what’s shown in the post below. Be sure you are using the latest and report back with details if things aren’t working (i.e. what slicer version you used, how to replicate the issue public data).

> [@Color (RGB) volume rendering](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/color-rgb-volume-rendering/19732):
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> In recent Slicer Preview Releases, color volume rendering has been made much easier to access. While previously an alpha channel had to be created manually for rendering color RGB volumes, now the alpha channel is created automatically (from the luminance of the image). To render an RGB volume, just load the image stack and drag-and-drop the volume from the Data module to a 3D view (or use Volume Rendering module). When a color volume is loaded then “Scalar Color Mapping” section is not display…

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