# Orthomosaic Color in GIS

**URL:** <https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612>\
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper\
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612 "2021-09-08T21:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@jacob](https://community.pix4d.com/u/jacob)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612/1 "2021-09-08T21:09:05Z")

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Hello,

When I am exporting my Ortho images from Pix4d and putting them into GIS, I never am able to obtain a color band. I seem to be stuck in grayscale or with the preset GIS color ramps.

Can you please help explain what I am doing wrong in getting the orthomosaic to export with color and/or viewing the orthomosaic in GIS with the color?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Nikoleta_Dimopoulou)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612/2 "2021-09-09T13:00:16Z")

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Hi Jacob,

May I ask if you are putting the images you captured or the orthomosaic generated with PIX4Dmapper?  
Can you share with us the quality report and your orthomosaic (GeoTIFF)?

Best,

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**Author:** ![jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@jacob](https://community.pix4d.com/u/jacob)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612/3 "2021-09-09T16:16:01Z")

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[LL Monthly Sept\_report.pdf](https://community.pix4d.com/uploads/short-url/4h5usoLsi8wWDyJlF39AHTYOEwX.pdf) (2.6 MB)  
Hello Nikoleta,

I am uploading the ortho generated by Pix into GIS. I have uploaded the quality report to this thread. The geotiff seems to be too large and keeps failing to upload.

thanks for the help

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**Author:** ![Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Nikoleta_Dimopoulou)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/orthomosaic-color-in-gis/19612/4 "2021-09-13T08:37:36Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for sharing with us the quality report.  
I noticed that the GCPnamed mtp1 has a very large error.  
 ![2021-09-13_10h21_38](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/pix4d/original/2X/d/dd4946e28690b03175c3be91f2f7f1c42bdc5bc2.jpeg)  
Can you please delete it and select [https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202557809-Menu-Process-Reoptimize](https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202557809-Menu-Process-Reoptimize)? Afterwards you will have to process again steps 2 and 3.

Regarding the size of the orthomosaic you are importing have in mind that you can import the tiles of the orthomosaic one by one in GIS instead of the whole orthomosaic. You can find the tiles under this path: …\3\_dsm\_ortho\2\_mosaic\tiles

May I ask also what is the exact software you are using? Is it QGIS, ArcGIS, etc.?  
Can you please upload the orthomosaic and the tiles after you copress/zip them, on our [OneDrive](https://pix4d365-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/nikoleta_dimopoulou_pix4d_com/EnV3EYynOCZBlHGr_nfg_rABAgmA0VsgA_ekRl7rk3rDQg?e=r3t3jp)?

Please let me know when files are uploaded.

Best,