tiff2bw(1)

tiff2bw1

Convert a color tiff image to greyscale

Usage

tiff2bw [options] input.tif output.tif

Overview

tiff2bw converts an RGB or Palette color TIFF image to a greyscale image 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 compress

Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: -c none for no compression, -c packbits for the PackBits compression 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, -c lzw for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).

-r striprows

Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.

-R redperc

Specify the percentage of the red channel to use (default 28).

-G greenperc

Specify the percentage of the green channel to use (default 59).

-B blueperc

Specify the percentage of the blue channel to use (default 11).

Releases

17 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 1.2–1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2–3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0–5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7–8
  8. 9
  9. 10–11
  10. 12
  11. 13

Author

LibTIFF contributors

From libtiff-tools 4.7.0-3+deb13u3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.