stiff

convert scientific FITS images to the TIFF format

Description

STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the TIFF format for illustration purposes. The main features of STIFF are:

* Accurate reproduction of the original surface brightnesses and colours

* Automatic or manual contrast and brightness adjustments

* Automatic sky background intensity and colour balance

* Adjustable colour saturation

* Colour-friendly gamma correction capabilities

* One or three input channels: gray-scale or true colour output

* Output with 8 or 16 bits per component

* Pixel rebinning and x/y flip options

* Support for arbitrarily large input and output images on standard

hardware (BigTIFF support)

* Support for tiled, multiresolution pyramids

* Support for lossless and lossy compression methods

* Multi-threaded code with load-balancing to take advantage of multiple

cores and processors.

* XML VOTable-compliant output of meta-data.

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