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I have been trying to add a watermark to a jpeg using PIL, but the
watermark has a black box around it. I looked at

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/362879

and

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ay/003369.html

but I think these only refer to gif or png. I know jpegs really do not
support transparency, but is there some way to take a watermark in a
non jpeg format and add it to a jpeg without that box appearing around
it?

Best Regards

Ty

On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:07 am, wrote:
> I have been trying to add a watermark to a jpeg using PIL, but the
> watermark has a black box around it. I looked at
[...]
> but I think these only refer to gif or png. I know jpegs really do not
> support transparency, but is there some way to take a watermark in a
> non jpeg format and add it to a jpeg without that box appearing around
> it?

Jpeg is a lossy compression format. You shouldn't do image processing
in such a format at all. Convert the data to PNG, do your processing,
and convert back to JPG for delivery. PIL can do that.

--
Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com

You need to pass a mask in when you paste in the watermark.

see the documentation for the paste method at
http://effbot.org/imagingbook/image.htm
for more information

This should at least get you started...

>>> import Image
>>> import ImageDraw
>>> import ImageFont
>>> import ImageEnhance
>>> im=Image.new('RGB',(300,300),(0,0,0))
>>> font=ImageFont.truetype('verdana.ttf',12)
>>> wm=Image.new('RGBA',(100,50),(255,255,255))
>>> im=Image.new('RGB',(300,300),(255,255,255))
>>> draw=ImageDraw.Draw(wm)
>>> draw.text((0,0),'Watermark',(0,0,0),font)
>>> wm.show()
>>> en=ImageEnhance.Brightness(wm)
>>> mask=en.enhance(0.5)
>>> im.paste(wm,(25,25),mask)
>>> im.show()
>>>

Here, the alpha channel of 'mask' is used as the mask.

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