New to GDAL, have some tiff files and I'm trying to do the following: "0 to NoData" to avoid black background in Mapbox: gdalwarp -dstnodata 0 -dstalpha [input file] [output file] The problem is, the output file size for this tasks is huge (≈150MB to ≈10GB). The same thing occurs when I next add a color relief: gdaldem color-relief -of GTiff [input file] [color text file] [output file] -alpha The file size roughly doubles... My only guess is that the data is remaining as a value and is somehow being interpreted as such, so my only option is to compress the file using LZW afterwards. However, this process takes a ridiculously long time to complete, so I'd like to find a more efficient way. I typically don't see such great file inflation, but this dataset is new to me. EDIT: Here is the gdalinfo readout... Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF Files: [input file] Size is 129753, 78920 Coordinate System is: PROJCS["NAD_1983_Albers", GEOGCS["NAD83", DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983", SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.2572221010042, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich",0], UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]], PROJECTION["Albers_Conic_Equal_Area"], PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",29.5], PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",45.5], PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",23], PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",-96], PARAMETER["false_easting",0], PARAMETER["false_northing",0], UNIT["metre",1, AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]]] Origin = (-2353941.226999999955297,3160112.077999999746680) Pixel Size = (30.000000000000000,-30.000000000000000) Metadata: AREA_OR_POINT=Area DataType=Generic Image Structure Metadata: COMPRESSION=LZW INTERLEAVE=BAND Corner Coordinates: Upper Left (-2353941.227, 3160112.078) (127d48'20.50"W, 47d51'28.35"N) Lower Left (-2353941.227, 792512.078) (119d57'48.72"W, 27d30'44.36"N) Upper Right ( 1538648.773, 3160112.078) ( 74d45'30.86"W, 49d54'18.35"N) Lower Right ( 1538648.773, 792512.078) ( 80d 8'39.87"W, 29d 2'53.17"N) Center ( -407646.227, 1976312.078) (100d52' 1.48"W, 40d42'15.31"N) Band 1 Block=128x128 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Gray NoData Value=0 Metadata: RepresentationType=THEMATIC Image Structure Metadata: NBITS=2