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TIFF compression options

TIFF compression options

Summary

Realistically, especially when considering the inherent noise in the original image, I'd settle for lossy compression with COMPRESS=JPEG JPEG_QUALITY=90, which could reduce file size fairly quickly to 16% of the original.

But if lossless compression is a hard requirement, I'd probably go with COMPRESS=LZW PREDICTOR=2. However, I would want to verify that any downstream tools would support this sort of compression.

UPDATE: When saving with JPEG compression, further speed and size improvements are gained by adding PHOTOMETRIC=YCBCR, which uses a different color space that has even better compression. I've added new rows to the table for YCBCR, as well as .jp2 formats.