Convert does not modify the image in place : it returns a new converted image.
Use newim = origim.convert("RGB")
Kevin
On Jun 30, 2013, at 18:29, Matti Viljamaa <mvilja...@kapsi.fi> wrote:
> I'm trying to handle CMYK images by converting them to RGB. I'm using the
> following code snippet:
>
> import sys
> from PIL import Image
>
> def loadImage(self, imageFileName):
> imageFile = open(imageFileName)
> image = Image.open(imageFile)
>
> if(image.mode == 'CMYK' ):
> image.convert('RGB')
>
> However the image is not converted to RGB, although its mode is recognized as
> CMYK.
>
> Later when loading this image into a QImage (of the Qt GUI library), the
> compiler produces an error indicating that the mode is still CMYK:
> ValueError: unsupported image mode 'CMYK'
>
> So how can CMYK images be handled?
>
> My PIL is of version 1.1.6.
>
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