[Tutor] Pasting an image with transparency

[Terry]

On 06/02/2017 08:31 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> Terry wrote:
>
> We read the docstring so you don't have to ;)
>
  I have to remember to utilize available help functions... my bad.

>>>> from PIL import Image
>>>> image = Image.open("sample.jpg") # some random pic I have lying around
>>>> help(image.paste)
> Help on method paste in module PIL.Image:
>
> paste(im, box=None, mask=None) method of PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile
> instance
>
> [...]
>      Note that if you paste an "RGBA" image, the alpha band is
>      ignored.  You can work around this by using the same image as
>      both source image and mask.
> [...]
>
> So let's try that. (Since I don't have a transparent picture handy I'm using
> a copy of <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-pillow/Pillow/master/Tests/images/transparent.png>.)
>
>>>> stamp = Image.open("transparent.png")
>>>> image.paste(stamp, (0, 0), mask=stamp)
>>>> image.show()
> Seems to work...
>
>
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I first posted my question to the image-sig list but never got a reply.

Awesome! Thank you for responding.

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