# Can Bing Maps satellite imagery appear lighter

**URL:** <https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/can-bing-maps-satellite-imagery-appear-lighter/9597>\
**Category:** WinForms\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/can-bing-maps-satellite-imagery-appear-lighter/9597 "2019-09-10T15:41:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/user_avatar/community.thinkgeo.com/ethan/32/19964_2.png) [@Ethan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Ethan)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/can-bing-maps-satellite-imagery-appear-lighter/9597/2 "2019-09-11T05:35:15Z")

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Hi Steve,

I think for aerial imagery, the color cannot get changed, it don’t support this parameter.

> **[Get Imagery Metadata - Microsoft Bing Maps](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/imagery/get-imagery-metadata)**
>
> How to use URL templates to get metadata for imagery that is hosted by Bing Maps.

Our map API “ColorMappings” can dynamic render target color to the other specified color, so it can make the image looks light, but I test it and found it don’t works for your scenario, because there are too many different colors in an aerial imagery, it works well in road map.

> [@Changing map brightness during night shift](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/changing-map-brightness-during-night-shift/8263/2):
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> Hi Piotr, The code as below shows how to replace a color to black just like the screen shot shows: private void DisplayMap\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { winformsMap1.MapUnit = GeographyUnit.Meter; winformsMap1.BackgroundOverlay.BackgroundBrush = new GeoSolidBrush(GeoColor.GeographicColors.ShallowOcean); OpenStreetMapLayer layer = new OpenStreetMapLayer(); // This code change the color layer.ColorMappings.Clear(); layer.Color…

And finally I found if you set this the property “Transparency”, it will looks like a little light.  
bingMapsLayer.Transparency = 200;

Wish that’s helpful.

Regards,

Ethan

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