On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Laura & Edward Cannon <cannon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hm.. you seem to be right. One thing you might do is im = > Image.open("test.png").convert("RGBA") which seems to solve the > transparency problem, at the expense of a slightly larger image file.
No, even if using convert("RGBA") I get incorrect result :( > Looking closer I think that PIL seems to support only RGB palettes > rather than RGBA palettes as does the PNG specification. Converting to > RGBA would make editing work as expected, and would preserve all > transparency information. If you just need to move/rename the image, > try shutil.copy in the standard library. > Edward > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.min...@gista.sk> wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, you wrote: >>> The problem seems to be that you set transparency=0 in your save. >>> Leave it out ( im.save("out.png") ) and you should be fine. >> >> Many thanks for reply, but I think You are not right. If I save without >> 'transparency=0' I will loose my transparent background at all - it will be >> black. With 'transparency=0' I loose only transparency of my drawing, >> backround is OK. >> My test image is here: http://gista.sk/dl/test.png >> >> >>> If you just need to change the name try shutil.copy in the standard library. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.min...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Dear list, >>> > I have PNG image in palette mode, with 256 color palette. Every color >>> > has different level of transparency. >>> > For example: >>> > Color Table (RGB with 256 entries) >>> > 0: 0,0,0,0 >>> > 1: 238,238,238,154 >>> > 2: 253,253,109,154 >>> > 3: 0,0,0,2 >>> > 4: 0,0,0,4 >>> > 5: 0,0,0,8 >>> > 6: 0,0,0,6 >>> > 7: 237,237,237,154 >>> > 8: 0,0,0,14 >>> > 9: 35,35,15,153 >>> > 10: 1,1,0,138 >>> > >>> > I am trying just to open and save this image using PIL. >>> > #!/usr/bin/python >>> > import Image >>> > >>> > im = Image.open('test.png') >>> > im.save('out.png', transparency=0 ) >>> > >>> > After running this code, the resulting image is loosing transparency >>> > information for each color and it is set to 255. >>> > Color Table (RGB with 256 entries) >>> > 0: 0,0,0,0 >>> > 1: 238,238,238,255 >>> > 2: 253,253,109,255 >>> > 3: 0,0,0,255 >>> > 4: 0,0,0,255 >>> > 5: 0,0,0,255 >>> > 6: 0,0,0,255 >>> > 7: 237,237,237,255 >>> > 8: 0,0,0,255 >>> > 9: 35,35,15,255 >>> > 10: 1,1,0,255 >>> > >>> > Is there any way how to save the image with exactly same palette as >>> > original image ? >>> > >>> > For anybody wanting to look at this problem, You can download my test >>> > image here: >>> > http://gista.sk/dl/test.png >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Ivan >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Image-SIG maillist - image-...@python.org >>> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ivan Mincik >> Gista s.r.o. >> > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig