Is it possible to reduce the depth of an image using PIL? Say like going to 4bpp from a regular 8bpp.
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Is it possible to reduce the depth of an image using PIL? Say like going to 4bpp from a regular 8bpp.
You can easily convert image modes (just call
im.convert(newmode)on an image objectim, it will give you a new image of the new required mode), but there’s no mode for “4bpp”; the modes supported are listed here in the The Python Imaging Library Handbook.