# Is there a color bar or color legend available?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-color-bar-or-color-legend-available/11060>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-color-bar-or-color-legend-available/11060 "2020-04-09T17:42:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ButuiHu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/butuihu/32/2386_2.png) [@ButuiHu](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ButuiHu)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-color-bar-or-color-legend-available/11060/1 "2020-04-09T17:42:01Z")

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I have calculated model to model distance with Model to Model Distance extension, and I want a color bar or color legend. I check [this post](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/where-to-turn-on-and-off-color-scale-bar/8347), but failed to find one.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/3/132585050add23e241aa3e5f447241dca46f656d.png)  
I would like something like this:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/3/1359c36544cc81a2c3f53f27d3eb364ca95e2b95.jpeg)  
I have to calculate model to model distance with 3DMetricMesh, save the result to vtk file, and import it to paraview to get this rendering. It would be great if I could do all this in Slicer.

Another question, is there any method to capture the 3D view with only the 3D cube? I don’t want the extra white border with Slicer’s capture screenshot.

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-color-bar-or-color-legend-available/11060/2 "2020-04-09T18:18:14Z")

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> [@ButuiHu](#):
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> I check [this post](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/where-to-turn-on-and-off-color-scale-bar/8347), but failed to find one.

Did you actually switch to the “DataProbe” module as that post describes? This is different from the Data Probe button that is usually at the bottom of the left side module panel area. In the image shown above you were still in the “Models” module.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-color-bar-or-color-legend-available/11060/3 "2020-04-09T18:48:42Z")

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See also this post:

> [@Change Color map and add color scale](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-color-map-and-add-color-scale/10953/2):
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> You can do this all in Slicer. Edit color table: Go to colors module, choose a color node that you would like to modify, click “Copy” button to create an editable copy (the default color nodes are read-only). If you choose a “color table” type of node (this is the most common) then you get hundreds of predefined colors and you can modify each by double-clicking the color swatch in the color column, which can be tedious if you want to make large changes. It may be more convenient to modify “Cont…