Re: binarized stack file size?

Posted by Michael Schmid on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/binarized-stack-file-size-tp3699337p3699339.html

Hi Dan,

in ImageJ, binary files are simply 8-bit files that have only
two levels, 0 and 255. You can save disk space if you save
the stack as zip.

Michael
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On 25 May 2007, at 18:55, Dan Siegal-Gaskins wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have an 800+ MB TIFF stack, and when I convert it to binary and  
> save, the
> file size remains 800+ MB.  I would have expected the binary file  
> to be
> considerably smaller than the stack of 8-bit TIFFs.  Is there  
> something that
> I'm doing wrong, or is it my lack of understanding of different  
> file types?
>
> Many thanks,
> Dan