Per  Michelle White's request, here is a sum of the answers I received on
turning off colors in DRG's.  Thanks to all who responded!!

Jason McMahan-
I think your only option within MI would be to make green Transparent
(Table>Raster>Adjust Image Styles>).

However, what I usually do is open my DRG (or more precisely, the .tif)
into
Photoshop (or any imaging software), where you can make all sorts of
changes.  As long as you don't change the dimensions of the image, or the
file name, any changes will be reflected back in MI.

Mark Neuhaus-
We do it this way in version 6.0.

If you have a geotiff without the tfw file, you need to register it first
in mapinfo using georeg, which uses the imbedded header info to register
it.  Then pull the file into paintshoppro and edit the color palette.  If
you don't register it first, paintshoppro strips the geotiff tags from the
header.

If it is just a plain old tiff or jpg that you have to register with a tfw
reader, you can edit the file first.

If you have a geotiff with a tfw file, you can do it either way.  But then
you can't use georeg.  Instead you use a tfw reader.

We edit out the green this way.  Even change the other base colors if we
don't like them.  Mostly, we strip the green and then turn each of the
other colors to black before making the image into a 2-bit b/w so we can
print it transparent in a postscript file.

Bill Thoen-

I'm pretty sure you can switch colors to gray scale in
Table/Raster/Adjust Images Styles, and you can make any one color
transparent there too.

Stephen R Baig-

If Bill's suggestion doesn't work as well as you might like, we have
opened the basic DRG in e.g. CorelPaint and therein used either the
"suppress" colour mode(s) or the colour separation mode to convert
various layers to B/W and re-assembled the layers.  That's a two-key
operation in PhotoPaint, likely no more complicated in most of the other
pixel programmes.  As long as the number of pixels isn't changed the
positioning info won't "know" about any changes that are made.  It does,
though, require prepping the images in a second programme and that's not
as neat as Bill's suggestion.

Brian Van Druten
Forestry Technician
Alligator River NWR
Manteo, NC



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