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GermainZ
GermainZ

Reputation: 1943

Get pixel's RGB using PIL

Is it possible to get the RGB color of a pixel using PIL? I'm using this code:

im = Image.open("image.gif")
pix = im.load()
print(pix[1,1])

However, it only outputs a number (e.g. 0 or 1) and not three numbers (e.g. 60,60,60 for R,G,B). I guess I'm not understanding something about the function. I'd love some explanation.

Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 135

Views: 309698

Answers (5)

Raphaël Gervillié
Raphaël Gervillié

Reputation: 398

With numpy :

im = Image.open('image.gif')
im_matrix = np.array(im)
print(im_matrix[0][0])

Give RGB vector of the pixel in position (0,0)

Upvotes: 9

Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

Reputation: 136695

Not PIL, but imageio.imread might still be interesting:

import imageio
im = scipy.misc.imread('um_000000.png', flatten=False, mode='RGB')
im = imageio.imread('Figure_1.png', pilmode='RGB')
print(im.shape)

gives

(480, 640, 3)

so it is (height, width, channels). So the pixel at position (x, y) is

color = tuple(im[y][x])
r, g, b = color

Outdated

scipy.misc.imread is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0 (thanks for the reminder, fbahr!)

Upvotes: 2

Levon
Levon

Reputation: 143122

Yes, this way:

im = Image.open('image.gif')
rgb_im = im.convert('RGB')
r, g, b = rgb_im.getpixel((1, 1))

print(r, g, b)
(65, 100, 137)

The reason you were getting a single value before with pix[1, 1] is because GIF pixels refer to one of the 256 values in the GIF color palette.

See also this SO post: Python and PIL pixel values different for GIF and JPEG and this PIL Reference page contains more information on the convert() function.

By the way, your code would work just fine for .jpg images.

Upvotes: 217

Marcel Wilson
Marcel Wilson

Reputation: 4572

An alternative to converting the image is to create an RGB index from the palette.

from PIL import Image

def chunk(seq, size, groupByList=True):
    """Returns list of lists/tuples broken up by size input"""
    func = tuple
    if groupByList:
        func = list
    return [func(seq[i:i + size]) for i in range(0, len(seq), size)]


def getPaletteInRgb(img):
    """
    Returns list of RGB tuples found in the image palette
    :type img: Image.Image
    :rtype: list[tuple]
    """
    assert img.mode == 'P', "image should be palette mode"
    pal = img.getpalette()
    colors = chunk(pal, 3, False)
    return colors

# Usage
im = Image.open("image.gif")
pal = getPalletteInRgb(im)

Upvotes: 3

KobeJohn
KobeJohn

Reputation: 7545

GIFs store colors as one of x number of possible colors in a palette. Read about the gif limited color palette. So PIL is giving you the palette index, rather than the color information of that palette color.

Edit: Removed link to a blog post solution that had a typo. Other answers do the same thing without the typo.

Upvotes: 4

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