Re: PIL: Transparent PNGs and im.paste: ValueError: bad transparencymask

[Durand]

I posted this too soon. Converting the images to png with image magick's convert did the trick...However , I'm still not sure why I need to convert the images in the first place. Are there different types of PNGs?

[Ken Starks]

Re: PIL: Transparent PNGs and im.paste: ValueError: bad transparencymas k

Durand wrote:

I posted this too soon. Converting the images to png with image magick's convert did the trick...However , I'm still not sure why I need to convert the images in the first place. Are there different types of PNGs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Transparency_of_image