# Improvements to colormaps / color ranges

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improvements-to-colormaps-color-ranges/12754
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improvements-to-colormaps-color-ranges/12754 "2023-08-25T20:47:01Z")
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### Author: ![dcthomp](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/dcthomp/32/20_2.png) [@dcthomp](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dcthomp)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improvements-to-colormaps-color-ranges/12754/2 "2023-08-25T20:53:37Z")

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This is one approach to the more general problem of “how should ParaView help users edit colormaps with large numbers of setpoints?”

I like all the functionality you’ve discussed. However, ParaView should also provide some histogram-guided scaling tools (e.g., snapping the central color to the median or the mean as well as to zero, the min, or the max).

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