[Image-SIG] transparency in palette mode ( "P" ) images

[Laura & Edward Cannon]

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.
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.mincik at 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.mincik at 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
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> Ivan Mincik
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