TIFF2BW(1) General Commands Manual TIFF2BW(1)
NAME
tiff2bw - convert a color TIFF image to greyscale
SYNOPSIS
tiff2bw [ options ] input.tif output.tif
DESCRIPTION
Tiff2bw converts an RGB or Palette color TIFF image to a greyscale im-
age by combining percentages of the red, green, and blue channels. By
default, output samples are created by taking 28% of the red channel,
59% of the green channel, and 11% of the blue channel. To alter these
percentages, the -R, -G, and -B options may be used.
OPTIONS
-c Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: -c
none for no compression, -c packbits for the PackBits compres-
sion algorithm, -c zip for the Deflate compression algorithm, -c
g3 for the CCITT Group 3 compression algorithm, -c g4 for the
CCITT Group 4 compression algorithm, and -c lzw for Lempel-Ziv &
Welch (the default).
-r Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default
the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is ap-
proximately 8 kilobytes.
-R Specify the percentage of the red channel to use (default 28).
-G Specify the percentage of the green channel to use (default 59).
-B Specify the percentage of the blue channel to use (default 11).
SEE ALSO
pal2rgb(1), tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), tiffmedian(1), libtiff(3)
Libtiff library home page: http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
libtiff November 2, 2005 TIFF2BW(1)
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