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Color Palettes

The color appearance of your map and seismic windows are controlled by color sets, which are stored in your WinPICS Profiles directory (C:\WinPICS Profiles) with a ‘.CS’ extension.

WinPICS provides several color sets that are easily customized to suit your interpretation needs.

Turn on a color palette

In the Map window or the Seismic window, select the menu option Display | Color Palette | Color Palette On/Off. A colored bar will display on the right side of the window. This is the color palette.

Open color palette functions

Right-click on the color palette in your Map window or Seismic window to open a menu with color set options.

Basic Color Set Functions

New Color Set – Create a new color set.
Open Color Set – Open an existing color set.
Save Color Set - Save your color set to the same name.
Save As – Save your color set to a new name.

Work with color values

Investigate Color Range - Select a range of values to highlight on posted grids and horizons.
Show Histogram - View a graphical display of how colors spread over your seismic data values.
Set Opacity - Make objects on your map transparent.
Flip Color Set – Flip the color set.
Resize CSet – Resize the number of colors to use in the color set.

Edit Color Set

Set Color Range – Change the range of values in the color set.
Set Color Bias – Restrict your data range to only positive or negative values for a ‘one-sided’ color set.
Set Color Gain – Adjust the color gain and color bias for the seismic window.
Set Contour Marking – Set contour marking on your gridded or 3D data.

Other

Color Palette Drag Mode – applies linear or exponential interpolation or rotates the color set.
Color Palette Options – allows you to change the color palette display options.

Color sets are stored, by default, in your WinPICS Profiles directory (C:\WinPICS Profiles). When you select Open CSet, WinPICS will automatically open your Profiles directory. The default color sets for your map and seismic display are ‘Amapcolr.cs’ and ‘Default.cs’, respectively. If you wish to change the default color set, you need to save your new color set under these same names.

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