Median Filter : tiffmedian

[vandana sudhakar sardar]

 
Why after applying median filter .tif reduces its size to 1/3?

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[Gerben Vos]

vandana sudhakar sardar wrote:

> Why after applying median filter .tif reduces its size to 1/3?

Because the original TIFF was RGB, which uses 3 bytes (24 bits) per pixel, while the new TIFF is palette-based with 256 colours, so it uses only 1 byte (8 bits) per pixel.

                                        Gerben Vos.

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