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Hmmm... I don't know why you can't change the color in an image editor. I do so for wood grain materials quite frequently.
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Grab it by it's title bar and drag it off.
They are definitely guidelines. However, I solved the problem by changing to the wireframe option in the Styles menu, select all, then View>Hide and switching back to the default styles. Lines gone.