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yeyugelire
yeyugelire

Reputation: 51

Python PIL image split to RGB

How to split image to RGB colors and why doesn't split() function work?

from PIL import Image
pil_image = Image.fromarray(some_image)
red, green, blue = pil_image.split()
red.show()

Why does red.show() shows image in greyscale instead of red scale?

PS. The same situation using green.show() and blue.show().

Upvotes: 5

Views: 19640

Answers (3)

Mujeeb Ishaque
Mujeeb Ishaque

Reputation: 2701

You can use either OpenCV or Pillow. It's simple in both. I've written a class (Uses Pillow, https://github.com/mujeebishaque/image-splitter) that you can utilize and get all the channels saved in the current directory just by calling a function.

In OpenCV, you'd use the method split() on the image to get RGB or RGBA channels.

Upvotes: 1

Alistair Carscadden
Alistair Carscadden

Reputation: 1228

I've created a script that takes an RGB image, and creates the pixel data for each band by suppressing the bands we don't want.

RGB to R__ -> red.png

RGB to _G_ -> green.png

RGB to __B -> blue.png

from PIL import Image

img = Image.open('ra.jpg')
data = img.getdata()

# Suppress specific bands (e.g. (255, 120, 65) -> (0, 120, 0) for g)
r = [(d[0], 0, 0) for d in data]
g = [(0, d[1], 0) for d in data]
b = [(0, 0, d[2]) for d in data]

img.putdata(r)
img.save('r.png')
img.putdata(g)
img.save('g.png')
img.putdata(b)
img.save('b.png')

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Upvotes: 16

Pam
Pam

Reputation: 1163

A single channel image will always show as grayscale. If you want it to show in native colours (ie a red "R" channel, blue "B" channel, green "G" channel) you need to concatenate 3 channels and zero the ones you are not interested in. Remember to maintain channel order so that you don’t get a red "G" channel.

Might be easier to simple take 3 copies of the image and zero the irrelevant channels rather than using split.

Upvotes: 1

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