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Jul 17th, 2007

Paste a image into another

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Hi, I'm trying to use the function paste() to paste a image into another image but I can't get it work! Is it the right function to use or is there any other function that's better?

Here's my very simple code:

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from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw
 
im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
 
icon = Image.open("icon1.jpg")
im.paste(icon, (0,0,86,62))
 
del draw
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")
from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw

im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)

icon = Image.open("icon1.jpg")
im.paste(icon, (0,0,86,62))

del draw
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")

and the message:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Eclipse 3.2.2\plugins\org.python.pydev.debug_1.3.4\pysrc\pydevd.py", line 754, in <module>
    debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
  File "C:\Program Files\Eclipse 3.2.2\plugins\org.python.pydev.debug_1.3.4\pysrc\pydevd.py", line 597, in run
    execfile(file, globals, locals) #execute the script
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\eviceng\My Documents\Python\cellTestare\src\paste.py", line 8, in <module>
    im.paste(icon, (0,0,86,62))
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1076, in paste
    self.im.paste(im, box)
ValueError: images do not match
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Eclipse 3.2.2\plugins\org.python.pydev.debug_1.3.4\pysrc\pydevd.py", line 754, in <module>
    debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
  File "C:\Program Files\Eclipse 3.2.2\plugins\org.python.pydev.debug_1.3.4\pysrc\pydevd.py", line 597, in run
    execfile(file, globals, locals) #execute the script
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\eviceng\My Documents\Python\cellTestare\src\paste.py", line 8, in <module>
    im.paste(icon, (0,0,86,62))
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1076, in paste
    self.im.paste(im, box)
ValueError: images do not match

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Jul 17th, 2007

Re: Paste a image into another

Make sure you give it the correct size of the icon ...

python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw
 
im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
 
icon = Image.open("icon1.jpg")
# get the correct size
x, y = icon.size
im.paste(icon, (0,0,x,y))
 
del draw
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")
 
# optional, show the saved image in the default viewer (works in Windows)
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("test.jpg")
from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw
 
im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
 
icon = Image.open("icon1.jpg")
# get the correct size
x, y = icon.size
im.paste(icon, (0,0,x,y))
 
del draw
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")
 
# optional, show the saved image in the default viewer (works in Windows)
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("test.jpg")

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Re: Paste a image into another

Are you really sure? Because I know (86,62) is the right height and width. I can't test your code but I'll do first thing in the morning.

If I remember right I changed that line to icon.getbbox(), like this, before I went home from work:

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im.paste(icon, icon.getbbox())
im.paste(icon, icon.getbbox())

and I got a white image, nothing in there when I opened the image.

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Re: Paste a image into another

Strange, either method works fine for me!

I have Windows XP. What OS are you using? Shouldn't make a difference. Is your icon file a true JPEG?

Use ...

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print icon.mode

this should show "RGB"

Last edited by vegaseat; Jul 17th, 2007 at 6:04 pm.

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Re: Paste a image into another

Okej.. When I ran this script I was in, I think, windows 2000 - but in the end my script have to work on unix..

Do you get it working, a image paste into another? This is very strange.. I'll test the code you wrote tomorrow and then we'll see. I'll get back if it somehow doesn't work!

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Re: Paste a image into another

Ahh, your code is working! But I now know why my script didn't work: I'm using the aggdraw module with PIL. my code look like this:

python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw
import aggdraw
 
im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = aggdraw.Draw(im)
 
icon = Image.open("icon.jpg")
# get the correct size
x, y = icon.size
im.paste(icon, (0,0,x,y))
 
draw.flush()
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")
from PIL import Image
import ImageDraw
import aggdraw
 
im = Image.new("RGB", (500,500), "white")
draw = aggdraw.Draw(im)
 
icon = Image.open("icon.jpg")
# get the correct size
x, y = icon.size
im.paste(icon, (0,0,x,y))
 
draw.flush()
im.save("test.jpg", "JPEG")

and it's mostly the same and the only thing, that i can see, that isn't the same is:

draw = aggdraw.Draw(im)

and

draw.flush()

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