Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24.188.200.145-20180326210541/@comment-9605025-20180326233123

I forgot to mention that there is also color depth to consider when calculating the image size. Lets say you have an uncompressed single-channel (if you don't know what those mean, don't worry about it) black-and-white TIFF image. If you store it using a 32-bit color depth, it will take up twice as much space compared to 16-bit a color depth version. Similarly, the 16-bit version will take up twice as much space as an 8-bit version; which will take up eight times as much space as a bi-level (1-bit). Yet, in the case of a black-and-white image, the color depth makes absolutely no difference in how the image appears to the viewer.

I know this because I use an image processing program for work and it refuses to store binary images as bi-level. It uses 8-bit gray-scale instead. And even worse, a popular plug-in uses a 16-bit color map instead!