[Image-SIG] python PIL 16-bit tiff files

[Edward Cannon]

PIL handles 8x3 bit images with mode RGB. higher bit depth images are
grayscale only. I have gotten around this particular problem by
storing bands separately in tupples as (R, G, B). I did have to write
my own file decoder to handle this though.
Edward

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Sebastian Haase <seb.haase at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Dan Blacker
> <dan.blacker at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Thanks for your input,
>>
>> The image is only of a tiny cropped area of a long strip of color kodachrome
>> film - I will send a better example with some more color in it when I get a
>> chance.
>>
>> I was under the impression that PIL handled 16 bit images (experimentally)
>> but does this only apply to 16-bit grayscale images?
>>
>> Am I going up a dead end trying to read my images with PIL?
>>
> Dan,
> read my first reply: if someone could figure out how to add the
> "correct" key line,
> it might be an easy fix.
> Otherwise I would try to use imagemagick (or alike) to separate RGB
> into 3 separate gray images.
> I am working with 16-bit gray TIFs in PIL for many years without
> problem. (only to go immediately to numpy arrays then though; I can't
> say anything about PIL's other functions, like cropping...)
>
> - Sebastian
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