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for your detailed feedback.
My idea was to use 8bit LUTs in 16bit TIFF files.
apply it during opening.
Maybe this is already possible and I just mist some ImageJ options.
> Hi Nikolay & everyone,
>
>> I don't think it is possible to save TIFF with LUT inside the file.
> You can, but only for 8-bit indices. See the TIFF6 specification [1], Part
> 1, Section 5: "Palette-color Images". You can save such indexed color
> images using ImageJ's File > Save As > TIFF, or using the Bio-Formats
> Exporter plugin [2].
>
> However, if you have 16-bit indices, TIFF does not support that. The funny
> thing is that TIFF's ColorMaps are actually 8-bit indices into 48-bit RGB
> triples (so each of red, green and blue range from 0-65535). But that is
> the "wrong direction" if you want to have a color table with 65536 elements
> mapped to either 24-bit or 48-bit RGB triples.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not know of any general image formats that support
> 16-bit color tables. There are some proprietary microscopy formats that do,
> and Bio-Formats supports importing them, but will not export to such
> formats. Neither of the two most promising common graphics formats, TIFF
> and PNG, support it.
>
> For ImageJ2 we can add some custom metadata to the TIFF (like ImageJ1 does
> for hyperstacks), to preserve the LUTs. But then they would only be written
> & read by SCIFIO-based software [3], not all image processing software.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> [1]
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf> [2]
http://fiji.sc/Bio-Formats> [3]
http://scif.io/>
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Nikolay Rogoshchenkov
> <
[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is possible to save
>> TIFF<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format>with LUT
>> inside the file.
>>
>> --
>> Rogoshchenkov Nikolay
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Peter Haub <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> in ImageJ (1.47q) I saved a 16bit TIF image with a Color-LUT.
>>>
>>> Problem: The LUT will not be stored in the file.
>>>
>>> Is the a something I can fix with configuration settings, is this feature
>>> not supported in ImageJ or is this not an option in the TIF format?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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