On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, D. Hartley wrote:
> What does it mean if my image mode is "P"? In the documentation, it
> says "typical values are '1', 'L', 'RGB', 'CMYK.'" (it's a gif, if
> that's important)
That's really weird. It does say that (in the description of im.mode,
where you'd expect it). But other parts of the doc refer to a "P" mode;
see the descriptions of im.convert; im.putpalette; and the BMP format
description.
Seems to be some sort of "palette" format.
Hey! Look under "Concepts":
The mode of an image defines the type and depth of a pixel in the
image. The current release supports the following standard modes:
. . .
- P (8-bit pixels, mapped to any other mode using a colour palette)
. . .
Palette
The palette mode ("P") uses a colour palette to define the actual
colour for each pixel.
Not sure what that means, exactly, but it looks like im.palette will get
the palette of a a P-mode image, and im.putpalette will change it.
I'm not sure how to interpret the palette once you have it, though. The
description of the ImagePalette class is not too helpful.
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