why you don't try rgb2pct http://www.gdal.org/rgb2pct.html?
--Nikos Hatzopoulos On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks: > > I am using a piece of software which is relying on an older version of GDAL > that doesn't have the "fix" to deal with > 8 bit geotiffs (it is trying to > make a jpeg overlay but can't from a 16 bit image. I think this is the > issue: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/TIFF12BitJPEG), but when I do a > straight convert (-ot Byte) the output image looks really washed out. Any > hints for getting the best quality output from a 16 bit to to an 8 bit > conversion of a Geotiff? > > --j > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Assistant Project Scientist > Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) > Department of Land, Air and Water Resources > University of California, Davis > One Shields Avenue > Davis, CA 95616 > Phone: 415-763-5476 > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: [email protected], Gchat: jgrn307 > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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