[Image-SIG] Hi

[Nick De Lorenzo]

On 8/19/06, Paul Prescod <paul.prescod at xmetal.com> wrote:
> I just finished a PIL program and I feel like there may have been more
> efficient ways to do things I did "by hand" with the raw data. Can
> someone enlighten me?
>
> 1. I wanted to take 24 bit data, count the colours and make an 8-bit BMP
> if there are fewer than 256 colours. My brute force solution required me
> to build the palette by hand from the data and rewrite the data one
> pixel at a time. (a simple '.convert("P")' seems to use an arbitrary
> palette or something???)
>
> 2. I wanted to pad a bitmap by adding some space to the right and
> bottom. I did this by creating a new one and pasting the old one into
> it.
>
> 3. I wanted to convert every occurrence of one colour to another. I
> walked each pixel.
>
> I also could not figure out how to get to a 4-bit BMP. I inferred from
> the documentation that this just isn't possible with out of box PIL.
>
> Overall: PIL really rocks.
>
>  Paul Prescod
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