# Segment Editor color/name template

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982 "2020-04-03T20:15:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![TMrt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/tmrt/32/5432_2.png) [@TMrt](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/TMrt)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982/1 "2020-04-03T20:15:44Z")

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Hello,  
Is there a way to save only the colors and names without their corresponding segmentations in Segment Editor as a type of template that can be imported to other Slicer projects? Thank you

 ![screen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/e/8/e8bc84b04894e866fd668cec713ae3af7b5fd149.png)

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**Author:** ![Sunderlandkyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/sunderlandkyl/32/79987_2.png) [@Sunderlandkyl](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sunderlandkyl)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982/2 "2020-04-03T20:36:38Z")

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You can save an empty segmentation to a seg.nrrd containing the desired segment metadata, and import that file into Slicer as required.

For example, we have this default segmentation set up for a neuro segmentation project:

> <https://github.com/PerkLab/NeuroSegmentation/blob/master/NeuroSegment/Resources/Segmentations/DefaultSegmentation.seg.nrrd>

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**Author:** ![TMrt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/tmrt/32/5432_2.png) [@TMrt](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/TMrt)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982/3 "2020-04-03T23:47:57Z")

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Works great–thanks Kyle

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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 4, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982/4 "2020-04-04T17:59:25Z")

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Tip: You may find useful [filter&search features in Segment Editor](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-feature-search-and-filter-in-segments-table/7827) to show only those segments that you actively work on. You can have many segments in the template but you can choose to show only a handful of them to make it easy to navigate the segment list.

Select segments to be displayed:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/8/f/8f6e014c977496e3c2bd6edbb97d06c580a56fa9.png)

Filter segment list:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/4/8/48d0ea2b1fd2ee490453c9c5fecd92e33d20a749.png)

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**Author:** ![TMrt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/tmrt/32/5432_2.png) [@TMrt](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/TMrt)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-color-name-template/10982/5 "2020-04-04T19:54:10Z")

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Perfect-thanks so much