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- From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Apparent loss of colour info
- Message-ID: <IDF.92Jul24162811@benjamin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:28:11 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: benjamin
-
- Hi,
-
- I would be grateful if someone would explain/give me some
- pointers as to why I am losing colours with some image filtering.
-
- I have a 8bit colour TIFF file produced on a Mac. I used the
- Apple File Conversion routines to get a 8bit TIFF file on UNIX - point
- one here is that it is now a grayscale image :-(.
-
- I have the xtiff package and that displays the image quite
- well - at least I assume so as its now in b+w not colour but at least
- there seems to be plenty of shades.
-
- I have compiled up the ImageMagick filters and converted my
- TIFF to MIFF. When I display the MIFF it looks dark in comparison
- (see later) but converting it back it looks ok (slightly lossy
- perhaps).
-
- When I convert the MIFF to GIF, xwd, rasterfile etc the
- picture looks like the MIFF displayed ie has lost a load of colour
- (now greyscale) information, and is down to approx 60 colours (it
- varies with the filter).
-
- My question is, given that MIFF hasn't actually lost any (or
- much) information, what has happened in the filters - is it not
- possible to transfer the colour data?
-
- --
- Cheers,
-
- Ian
-
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- Ian Fitchet I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk
- School of Computer Science
- Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
-