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I am using gdal_translate -of JPEG -scale -co worldfile=yes ndvi.tiff output.jpg command to convert tiff images to jpg and resize it. But it generates only black and white images.

How can I generate colorful images when converting from tiff to jpg/jpeg?

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what do you see when you run gdal_info on the file? – johanvdw Jun 3 '12 at 11:26

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I think you'll find you need to add -expand rgb to your command line, for example:

gdal_translate -expand rgb -of JPEG input.tif output.jpg -co WORLDFILE=YES

Nick.

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I tried your given commmand. but it does not provide any uutput rather shows "Option -expand incomplete, or not recognised" how to overcome this problem? – Enamul Haque Jun 2 '12 at 11:36
This is strange, it works here. If you copied the command line from here and pasted it into a command window there might be a font encoding problem. Try typing the command line rather than copying and pasting. Nick. – nhopton Jun 2 '12 at 13:21
i typed it but yet no luck for me. is there any other reason or do i need to install some packages or so? – Enamul Haque Jun 2 '12 at 14:12
Okay, try running gdal_translate from within QGIS (Raster -> Conversion -> Translate). Tick 'Expand' and select 'RGB'. I can't understand why this isn't working from the command line, most odd. Nick. – nhopton Jun 2 '12 at 16:48
i run the next commadn "gdal_translate -expand rgb -of JPEG -scale -co worldfile=yes ndvi.tiff output.jpg" and it gives Input file size is 4087, 2176 Error : band 1 has no color table any suggestion – Enamul Haque Jun 2 '12 at 16:53
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you should use pct2rgb.py script for converting an 8bit paletted image to 24bit RGB.

Usage:

pct2rgb.py [-of format] [-b band] [-rgba] source_file dest_file

you can find script here. and some information here.

i hope it helps you...

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Resize images with GDAL? Did you try to convert TIFF to ECW?

gdal_translate -of ECW -co TARGET=0 -expand rgb -a_srs EPSG:4326 input.tif output.ecw
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no, i need to convert from tiff to jpg/jpeg – Enamul Haque Jun 2 '12 at 14:14

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