What would be a good TRUE black and white colormatrix?

Question

I want to convert an image from color to B/W (i.e. no grayscale, just black and white). Does anyone have a good colormatrix to achieve this?

Answer 1

You dont need a color matrix to achive this, just simply change encoding to CCITT! That only Black & White. Result remains correct and result file size is very small. Also much more efficient and faster than System.DrawImage.

This is the perfect solution:

public void toCCITT(string tifURL)
{
    byte[] imgBits = File.ReadAllBytes(tifURL);

    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(imgBits))
    {
        using (Image i = Image.FromStream(ms))
        {
            EncoderParameters parms = new EncoderParameters(1);
            ImageCodecInfo codec = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders()
                                                 .FirstOrDefault(decoder => decoder.FormatID == ImageFormat.Tiff.Guid);

            parms.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter(Encoder.Compression, (long)EncoderValue.CompressionCCITT4);

            i.Save(@"c:\test\result.tif", codec, parms);
        }
    }
}