topic What exactly does it mean to use a renderer and to force RGB when exporting a raster in arcgis 10x in 3D Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-use-a-renderer-and-to/m-p/592991#M3557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #242729; background-color: rgba(248, 248, 248, 0.6);">I have never really understood this and the documentation doesn´t explain it.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:18:33 GMT RobertBuckley1 2017-01-25T10:18:33Z What exactly does it mean to use a renderer and to force RGB when exporting a raster in arcgis 10x https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-use-a-renderer-and-to/m-p/592991#M3557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #242729; background-color: rgba(248, 248, 248, 0.6);">I have never really understood this and the documentation doesn´t explain it.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:18:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-use-a-renderer-and-to/m-p/592991#M3557 RobertBuckley1 2017-01-25T10:18:33Z Re: What exactly does it mean to use a renderer and to force RGB when exporting a raster in arcgis 10x https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-use-a-renderer-and-to/m-p/592992#M3558 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Say you have some DEM data, a raster where each pixel represents the elevation of that pixel.</P><P>You load it into ArcMap, and it would generally default to a gray scale image (black to white colour ramp).</P><P>If you want to send someone a "picture" if the data, rather than the data itself, you can apply another colour ramp (maybe Elevation 2 or something), maybe use a graphic to cut out a small section, if you right click on the dem and select data / export, then click the Use renderer &amp; force RGB, the exported raster is now a 3 band (RGB) image of the original.</P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/308681_pastedImage_1.png" /></P><P>Original gray scale raster.</P><P><IMG class="image-2 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/308683_pastedImage_3.png" /></P><P>New colour ramp.</P><P><IMG class="image-3 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/308684_pastedImage_4.png" /></P><P>RGB image output.</P><P><IMG class="jive-image image-4" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/308685_pastedImage_5.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:21:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-use-a-renderer-and-to/m-p/592992#M3558 NeilAyres 2017-01-25T12:21:16Z