PIL cannot write mode F to jpeg
JpegPython Imaging-LibraryFftModeIoerrorJpeg Problem Overview
I am taking a jpg image and using numpy's fft2 to create/save a new image. However it throws this error
"IOError: cannot write mode F as JPEG"
Is there an issue with CMYK and JPEG files in PIL???
p = Image.open('kibera.jpg')
bw_p = p.convert('L')
array_p = numpy.asarray(bw_p)
fft_p = abs(numpy.fft.rfft2(array_p))
new_p = Image.fromarray(fft_p)
new_p.save('kibera0.jpg')
new_p.histogram()
Jpeg Solutions
Solution 1 - Jpeg
Try convert the image to RGB:
...
new_p = Image.fromarray(fft_p)
if new_p.mode != 'RGB':
new_p = new_p.convert('RGB')
...
Solution 2 - Jpeg
Semente's answer is right for color images For grayscale images you can use below:-
new_p = Image.fromarray(fft_p)
new_p = new_p.convert("L")
If you use new_p = new_p.convert('RGB')
for a grayscale image then the image will still have 24 bit depth instead of 8 bit and would occupy thrice the size on hard disk and it wont be a true grayscale image.
Solution 3 - Jpeg
I think it may be that your fft_p
array is in float type and the image should have every pixel in the format 0-255 (which is uint8), so maybe you can try doing this before creating the image from array:
fft_p = fft_p.astype(np.uint8)
new_p = Image.fromarray(fft_p)
But be aware that every element in the fft_p
array should be in the 0-255 range, so maybe you would need to do some processing to that before to get the desired results, for example if you every element is a float between 0 and 1 you can multiply them by 255.