Reading PNG with PIL in Python

Question

I am reading a PNG file in Python. I want the RGB values for each pixel in the image:

  img = Image.open(path)
  pixels = img.load()

For a JPEG file the pixels are a tuple but for PNGs I am getting a single integer. How should I read PNG images with Python to get the pixel values?

Answer 1

Sounds like the image is being opened in grayscale mode. Try converting to RGB before accessing the pixel values.

img = Image.open(path).convert("RGB")
pixels = img.load()