.. _prettify-colorbar:



Adjust the color bar and its legend
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.. note::
   This document is part of a series teaching how to :ref:`create-image-sea-surface-speeds`.


Chose the object you want to manipulate in the pipeline view on the left (e.g. `Calculator1`. Then open the colormap editor (``View->Color Map Editor``) and chose the top right icon (a color bar with an ``e`` in the icon).

.. image:: get-colorbar-editor.png


Choose the gear at the top right of the menu (activates the display of less *important* aspects like the top/bottom value labels), insert a more precise label text in the ``Title`` field, e.g. "Ocean surface speed (m/s)" and set the format for the range labels (top/bottom values) to ``%.0f`` (floating-point with zero digits behind the ``.``). Use ``Apply`` to check your results and finally leave the menu with ``OK``.

.. image:: adjust-colorbar-labels.png

The result should look somewhat like

.. image:: adjusted-colorbar-labels.png

Next, you could de-activate the display of the coordinate system in the bottom right by clicking the icon with the eye and the coordinate axis in the right of the menu (see :ref:`main-screen`), and move on to :ref:`set-view-size`.