Tif white document with black print inversed to white on black.

[Billy_K_Lemons]

Added a tif file, white paper/background with black writing.

Suddenly, now when view is zoomed out to a little bit lower scale, the colors of the imported tif are inverted as a negative, with white writing on a black background.

Where is the control to stop this from happening?

[PatrickTaurman]

What kind of tiff do you have (1 bit, 8 bit, etc)?  What version of ArcGIS are you using?

Patrick

[Billy_K_Lemons]

Bits in tif, don't know.

Version 10.1

[PaulGrimes]

I have exactly the same issue ...

Images are 1bit packbits tif and I'm on 10 sp1 build 2800

only way I found was to convert to 8bit ... but I have alot of data  so its not really suitable.

I remember similar issue on 9.1 or 9.2 and  an updated dll was provided to sort it ...


Looking forward to a reply as I need to sort this asap....

regards

[PatrickTaurman]

Billy,

To find out the requested information, right click on the raster and select properties.  You will see Pixel Depth listed, which will tell you if its 1 bit, 8 bit, etc.  While you are checking that, please check and see what kind of compression you have.

Paul,

If you look in Windows Explorer does your raster have .rrd or .ovr file?  If a .rrd file, try renaming it, and then build pyramids, and see if that changes the display as you zoom in.

Patrick

[Billy_K_Lemons]

I am current on maintenance. But this issue arose during the weekend when Support is closed. Thought I might get a quick resolution here. I have a support incident rolling and will let you all know the fix when that is completed.

This might have something to do with electing not to build pyramids upon first bringing the tif into 10.1.

[PaulGrimes]

Hi Patrick, thanks for taking a look ...

This image is a tif with a tfw only no rrd.  Load into arcmap and its asks to build pyramids, so i agreed and it loads the image (inverted),  I zoom in several times and it inverst the image back to what we would expect.  Zoom out and its inverted again...  justloaded.gif shows the image after the pyramids created (,ovr) and the zoomed in shows the data at 1250 ish scale and its good to go.

If I load the image in 9.3 and build pyramids the load it in 10 its all fine ...  but ..... I dont want to have to go backwards as I have lost of historical bw data I need to use in this fashion...

Cheers

PaulG

[JeffreySwain]

Use the Build Pyramids tool and then adjust the Environment Settings in the tool.  Under Raster Storage, select Bilinear for the pyramid resampling technique.  This should correct the display after the tool is run. 

Billy,

I have sent you the same response with the incident. Please let me know if you have received the message and if you have any further questions.

[PaulGrimes]

Brill, super, perfect...  many thanks ....

Is there a way of setting this as default when arcmap does the pyramid building? took a look but may have missed it....

again thanks lads for the impressively quick response and solution

[JeffreySwain]

If you open the AdvancedArcMapsettings.exe under /Program Files/ArcGIS/Utilities, then you can adjust the default option when you build pyramids when rasters are added to ArcMap.  Select the Raster tab and then the default resampling mode.

Otherwise you can change the environment settings in ArcToolbox to reflect the selection of Bilinear for all pyramid operations.  Be sure to save the Environment Setting Choices to your template or the selection will only apply to that particular map document.