Hello Jaikishan,

Yes, -normalize will stretch your grayscale colors out to full 
dynamic range, if your problem was that you only had very dark 
grayscale values. I thought you might have been getting a binary 
image and needed to change it to grayscale. But seems you are on the 
right path.

However, -normalize will clip values. So you are better off using 
-contrast-stretch 0

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#normalize

it is equivalent to -contrast-stretch 2x1%. Thus 2% is lost at the 
dark end and 1% is lost at the bright end.


Fred




>I tried adding -normalize and it worked. However, adding type or 
>colorspace didnot work.
>
>On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Fred Weinhaus 
><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>see
>
><http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#cmdline>http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#cmdline
><http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp>http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp
>
>try adding -type truecolor (also possibly -colorspace gray) after the
>input image
>
>
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>
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>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have been trying to convert a 16 bit unsigned type fits image to bmp image
>>but it does not give the expected output. The input fits image is grayscale
>>and when I see the output , most of the pixels are black. What is the right
>>way to do the conversion?
>>
>>$convert -size 1536x1024 -depth 16 <fits_file_name> <bmp_file_name>;
>>--
>>Thanks,
>>Jaikishan
>>Sent from: Ames Iowa United States.
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>Jaikishan
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