image reduction script

[Philippe Martin]

Hi,

I need to write a script to reduce the resolution/color depth of an image
(ex: .jpg) based on a target size.

The point is for the target picture to still be "understandable " - yet I
target getting down to 5K.

Are there libraries out there that could help me start ?

Thanks

Philippe

[Larry Bates]

Re: image reduction script

Philippe Martin wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I need to write a script to reduce the resolution/color depth of an image
> (ex: .jpg) based on a target size.
>
> The point is for the target picture to still be "understandable " - yet I
> target getting down to 5K.
>
> Are there libraries out there that could help me start ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Philippe
>
>[/color]
Python Imaging Library (PIL).

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

-Larry Bates

[Philippe Martin]

Re: image reduction script

Larry,

I actually did not find what I needed in PIL (missed it ?) but found this
package quite usefull: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Philippe





Larry Bates wrote:
[color=blue]
> Philippe Martin wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to write a script to reduce the resolution/color depth of an image
>> (ex: .jpg) based on a target size.
>>
>> The point is for the target picture to still be "understandable " - yet I
>> target getting down to 5K.
>>
>> Are there libraries out there that could help me start ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>[/color]
> Python Imaging Library (PIL).
>
> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
>
> -Larry Bates[/color]

[Kamilche]

Re: image reduction script


To reduce the color depth of an image in PIL:
im = im.convert(mode ="P", palette=Image.A DAPTIVE)

[Philippe Martin]

Re: image reduction script

Thanks,

I'll give it a shot.

Philippe



Kamilche wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> To reduce the color depth of an image in PIL:
> im = im.convert(mode ="P", palette=Image.A DAPTIVE)[/color]

[Philippe Martin]

Re: image reduction script

Kamilche,

I am posting the code in another thread but am not certain that convert does
anything to the picture color depth ... still searching in the doc.

Philippe




Kamilche wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> To reduce the color depth of an image in PIL:
> im = im.convert(mode ="P", palette=Image.A DAPTIVE)[/color]

[Kamilche]

Re: image reduction script

Be sure and use mode = P instead of RGB, like you have in your other
code. P is for palettized images. Don't palettize if you're storing as
JPG, only if you're storing as PNG or some other format that can handle
256 color images.

[Philippe Martin]

Re: image reduction script

Kamilche wrote:
[color=blue]
> Be sure and use mode = P instead of RGB, like you have in your other
> code. P is for palettized images. Don't palettize if you're storing as
> JPG, only if you're storing as PNG or some other format that can handle
> 256 color images.[/color]


My problem is this:

1) If I use a save to jpg after a convert('P') I get an exception (what you
are refering to I assume)
2) If I use a save to png (I start with a jpg), then the (X,Y) size of the
output is much smaller than convert('RGB') and save to jpg - (and I want to
opposit: as small as possible in byte size and as large as possible in
(X,Y) ):

*** SAME INPUT FILE.JPG ***
***********conv ert('P') save to PNG
/home/philippe/tmp/tmprpdfEO is a 65x87 Raw PPM image with 256 levels
Default gamma for ITRUE image is 1.00
Building XImage...done
Have adjusted image from 1.00 to display gamma of 2.20

Versus:
***********conv ert('RGB') save to JPG
/home/philippe/tmp/tmpYCLrQR is a 173x231 Raw PPM image with 256 levels
Default gamma for ITRUE image is 1.00
Building XImage...done
Have adjusted image from 1.00 to display gamma of 2.20


Philippe