Here is the routine for storing an IDL Graphics Window as a True Color RGB JPEG: ; Make some colorful dummy data device, DECOMPOSED=0 ; I only needed this to make the colorful image image = dist(360) loadct, 5 window, XSIZE=360, YSIZE=360 tv, image ; Here is the coding solution you are looking for, Tavo: snapshot = tvrd(TRUE=1) ; I would get grayscale, if I did not use TRUE=... write_jpeg, 'my_idl_graphic.jpg', snapshot, TRUE=1 James Jones