Why is imwrite images has small size?

Hi, I guess i am not much of a expert on the subject. So after reading the 24 MP image as a Tiff which is 138 mb in size. and then extracting only the blue channel and writing it again doesnt add up. The blue channel image will come up to be 3,95 mb rather than 11,5 mb.

Input=4016x6016x3 uint16 size = 138mb

Output=2008x3008 uint 16 = 3,95mb

the operation i perform

clear all

for i=1:10

b=imread((strcat(num2str(i),'.tiff')));
im=b(2:2:4016,2:2:6016);

imwrite(im,strcat('blue',num2str(i),'.tiff'));

end

the pixel pattern was beyer so I was only interested in Blue pixel and not the interpolation of blue channel in all the pixels. Thanks

[KSSV]

How about taking

im=b(2:2:4016,2:2:6016);

as

im=b(:,:,3);

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Look at https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/imwrite.html#input_argument_namevalue_ColorSpace and scroll down very slightly to Compression. Notice there that there are a number of different compression possibilities for TIFF files, and that packbits is the default. So by default, what you imwrite() to a TIFF file will undergo loss-less compression as it is stored to disk.

The input file that you were reading might perhaps not be compressed at all.

[Irfan Tahir]

Thanks