diff --git a/packages/core/entity/FileDetail/RenderZarrThumbnailURL.ts b/packages/core/entity/FileDetail/RenderZarrThumbnailURL.ts
index be95fa728..cc6a1d0df 100644
--- a/packages/core/entity/FileDetail/RenderZarrThumbnailURL.ts
+++ b/packages/core/entity/FileDetail/RenderZarrThumbnailURL.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ import * as zarr from "@zarrita/core";
 import { FetchStore } from "@zarrita/storage";
 import { get as zarrGet } from "@zarrita/indexing";
 
+// Function to map grayscale value (0-255) to RGB color
+function grayscaleToRGB(value: number): [number, number, number] {
+    const r = value;
+    const g = 0 + value;
+    const b = 255 - value;
+    return [r, g, b];
+}
+
 export async function renderZarrThumbnailURL(zarrUrl: string): Promise<string> {
     try {
         const store = new FetchStore(zarrUrl);
@@ -18,45 +26,50 @@ export async function renderZarrThumbnailURL(zarrUrl: string): Promise<string> {
             const lowestResolutionDataset = datasets[datasets.length - 1];
             const lowestResolutionLocation = root.resolve(lowestResolutionDataset.path);
             const lowestResolution = await zarr.open(lowestResolutionLocation, { kind: "array" }); // TODO: check the filesize before slicing
-            const lowestResolutionView = await zarrGet(lowestResolution, [0, 0, 21, null, null]); // TODO: make this slicing dynamic
 
-            const data = lowestResolutionView.data as Uint16Array;
+            const lowestResolutionView = await zarrGet(lowestResolution, [0, 0, 20, null, null]); // Adjusted slicing for 2D data
+            console.log("DATA", lowestResolutionView.data);
+            console.log("SHAPE", lowestResolutionView.shape);
+            const u16data = lowestResolutionView.data as Uint16Array;
+
+            const min = Math.min(...u16data);
+            const max = Math.max(...u16data);
 
-            // Normalize the Uint16Array data to 8-bit
-            const maxVal = Math.max(...data);
-            const minVal = Math.min(...data);
-            const normalizedData = new Uint8ClampedArray(data.length);
-            for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
-                normalizedData[i] = ((data[i] - minVal) / (maxVal - minVal)) * 255;
+            const normalizedData = new Uint8Array(u16data.length);
+            for (let i = 0; i < u16data.length; i++) {
+                normalizedData[i] = Math.round((255 * (u16data[i] - min)) / (max - min));
             }
 
-            // Create a canvas to draw the image
+            const width = lowestResolutionView.shape[1];
+            const height = lowestResolutionView.shape[0];
             const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
-            const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
-            const width = Math.min(100, lowestResolution.shape[3]); // Set to actual data width if less than 100
-            const height = Math.min(100, lowestResolution.shape[4]); // Set to actual data height if less than 100
             canvas.width = width;
             canvas.height = height;
+            const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
 
-            if (context) {
-                const imageData = context.createImageData(width, height);
-                const imageDataArray = imageData.data;
+            if (!context) {
+                throw new Error("Failed to get canvas context");
+            }
 
-                // Populate the ImageData object with the normalized data
-                for (let i = 0; i < normalizedData.length; i++) {
-                    const value = normalizedData[i];
-                    imageDataArray[i * 4] = value; // Red
-                    imageDataArray[i * 4 + 1] = value; // Green
-                    imageDataArray[i * 4 + 2] = value; // Blue
-                    imageDataArray[i * 4 + 3] = 255; // Alpha
-                }
-                context.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
+            const imageData = context.createImageData(width, height);
 
-                const dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
-                return dataURL;
-            } else {
-                throw new Error("Unable to get 2D context from canvas");
+            for (let y = 0; y < height; y++) {
+                for (let x = 0; x < width; x++) {
+                    const idx = (y * width + x) * 4;
+                    const value = normalizedData[y * width + x];
+                    const [r, g, b] = grayscaleToRGB(value);
+                    imageData.data[idx] = r; // Red
+                    imageData.data[idx + 1] = g; // Green
+                    imageData.data[idx + 2] = b; // Blue
+                    imageData.data[idx + 3] = 255; // Alpha
+                }
             }
+
+            context.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
+
+            const dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
+
+            return dataUrl;
         } else {
             throw new Error("Invalid multiscales attribute structure");
         }