I have an RGBA .png which PIL is able to read and I would like to convert the image to a simple RGB image with a single colour reserved for transparent as the A channel is either all on or all off.
I thought I could use the the im.getcolors method to find the colours used by the image, but it sometimes returns None. Is there a smart way to find out an unused colour or the least used colour in my image? Additionally can PIL change a specified colour quickly. I'm guessing I might be able to do it using the composite mechanism > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import Image >>>> im0 = Image.open('trans.png') >>>> im0.mode > 'RGBA' >>>> im0.getcolors() > [(55367, (255, 1, 25, 255)), (24104, (24, 79, 235, 255)), (46529, (0, 0, 0, > 0))] >>>> im1 = Image.open('400px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png') >>>> im1.mode > 'RGBA' >>>> im1.getcolors() >>>> im1.getcolors() is None > True >>>> -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list