Reading images¶
There are several ways to open images:
- To open an image file
- To read a input stream (file-like object) that provides an image binary
- To read a binary string that contains image
- To copy an existing image object
- To open an empty image
All of these operations are provided by the constructor of
Image
class.
Open an image file¶
The most frequently used way is just to open an image by its filename.
Image
’s constructor can take the parameter named
filename
:
from __future__ import print_function
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
print('width =', img.width)
print('height =', img.height)
Note
It must be passed by keyword argument exactly. Because the constructor has many parameters that are exclusive to each other.
There is a keyword argument named file
as well, but don’t confuse
it with filename
. While filename
takes a string of a filename,
file
takes a input stream (file-like object).
Read a input stream¶
If an image to open cannot be located by a filename but can be read through
input stream interface (e.g. opened by os.popen()
,
contained in StringIO
, read by urllib2.urlopen()
),
it can be read by Image
constructor’s file
parameter.
It takes all file-like objects which implements read()
method:
from __future__ import print_function
from urllib2 import urlopen
from wand.image import Image
response = urlopen('https://stylesha.re/minhee/29998/images/100x100')
try:
with Image(file=response) as img:
print('format =', img.format)
print('size =', img.size)
finally:
response.close()
In the above example code, response
object returned by
urlopen()
function has read()
method,
so it also can be used as an input stream for a downloaded image.
Read a blob¶
If you have just a binary string (str
) of the image, you can pass
it into Image
constructor’s blob
parameter to read:
from __future__ import print_function
from wand.image import Image
with open('pikachu.png') as f:
image_binary = f.read()
with Image(blob=image_binary) as img:
print('width =', img.width)
print('height =', img.height)
It is a way of the lowest level to read an image. There will probably not be many cases to use it.
Clone an image¶
If you have an image already and have to copy it for safe manipulation,
use clone()
method:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as original:
with original.clone() as converted:
converted.format = 'png'
# operations on a converted image...
For some operations like format converting or cropping, there are safe methods
that return a new image of manipulated result like
convert()
or slicing operator. So the above example
code can be replaced by:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as original:
with original.convert('png') as converted:
# operations on a converted image...
Hint file format¶
When it’s read from a binary string or a file object, you can explicitly
give the hint which indicates file format of an image to read — optional
format
keyword is for that:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(blob=image_binary, format='ico') as image:
print(image.format)
New in version 0.2.1: The format
parameter to Image
constructor.
Open an empty image¶
To open an empty image, you have to set its width and height:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(width=200, height=100) as img:
img.save(filename='200x100-transparent.png')
Its background color will be transparent by default. You can set background
argument as well:
from wand.color import Color
from wand.image import Image
with Color('red') as bg:
with Image(width=200, height=100, background=bg) as img:
img.save(filename='200x100-red.png')
New in version 0.2.2: The width
, height
, and background
parameters to
Image
constructor.