[Image-SIG] What does the 'F' mode mean in PIL?

[Edward Cannon]

To rescale you could try using the point method on your image object. 



On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Managan, Rob wrote:
>> If you are not worried about rounding errors; this command grabs the data,
>> and puts it back scaled by 255/65535 and no offset.
>> i.putdata(i.getdata(),255.0/np.iinfo(np.uint16).max,0.0)
> 
> yup -- easy with numpy (I actually already did that), but I'm trying to figure out how to do it with PIL. Maybe there is no reason to, but is sure seems like it should be something PIL could easily do:
> 
> Convert a unsigned int16 grayscale image to 24bit RGB.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Chris
> 
> By the way, your replies are not making it to the list -- you need to hit "reply all" or "reply to list".
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> 
> 
>> On 6/20/11 1:17 PM, "Chris Barker" <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>> On 6/17/2011 8:58 PM, Managan, Rob wrote:
>>>> While I am not an expert, it seems you have to use mode = 'F' in from string.
>>>> Presumably then you can convert it to RGB?
>>>> All the floating point decoders (libImaging/Unpack.c) have mode 'F' so it
>>>> does not find a mode 'RGB' with the rawmode 'F;16'
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>   
>>> indeed it did -- I thought I'd triked that, but I guess I got confused
>>> about "mode" vs, "raw mode". So now I'm using mode: 'F', and raw mode
>>> 'F;16N'.
>>> 
>>> It works without an error, but I'm still lost on how I can then convert
>>> the 'F' image to an RGB image. convert('RGB') seems to convert to grey
>>> (which I want), but doesn't scale t all -- so a value of 255 in the
>>> original uint16 data is white. How can I tell it to re-scalse?
>>> 
>>> see attached code (requires numpy)
>>> 
>>> -Chris
>>> 
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