diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6e6f1c8..bd15d44 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+*.egg-info
+.eggs
 *.tif
 *.ipynb_checkpoints/
 *.zip
 *__pycache__/
 *.idea/
 *.tif.aux.xml
-*.html
\ No newline at end of file
+*.html
+dist/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..643c423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+include HISTORY.md
+include README.md
+
+recursive-include tests *
+recursive-exclude * __pycache__
+recursive-exclude * *.py[co]
+
+recursive-include  *.md Makefile *.jpg *.png *.gif
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index afcf44e..01243e0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 # disco_tif
 some general raster tools for visualization
+
+The primary utility of this library is to take a single-channel geotiff and create an rgba (32bit) geotiff. 
+The code can take a colormap name from matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/colors/colormaps.html), however If no colormap is supplied the EMerald_standard_colormap will be applied. This is a data driven colormap.
+Basically
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a9d4fd1..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-seaborn
-rasterio
-numpy
-pandas
-matplotlib
-earthpy
-scikit-learn  
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2636c9c..6491a84 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 import os,sys
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-git_token = os.environ["GITHUB_TOKEN_EMRLD"]
-if not "GITHUB_TOKEN_EMRLD" in os.environ:
-    print("Github token (GITHUB_TOKEN_EMRLD) not set!", file=sys.stderr)
-
 with open('README.md') as readme_file:
     readme = readme_file.read()