[Gdal-dev] Reducing GeoTIFF color depth from 24 bit to 8 bit

Matthew Perry perrygeo at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 17:55:35 EDT 2007


On 8/22/07, Rich Signell <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
> Is is possible to use GDAL to reduce the color depth of a GeoTIFF from
> 24 to 8 bit?

Check out the rgb2pct.py utility.
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