How can I fill an existing image with a desired color?
(I am using from PIL import Image and from PIL import ImageDraw)
This command creates a new image filled with a desired color
image = Image.new("RGB", (self.width, self.height), (200, 200, 200))
But I would like to reuse the same image without the need of calling "new" every time.
Have you tried:
image.paste(color, box)
where box can be a 2-tuple giving the upper left corner, a 4-tuple defining the left, upper, right, and lower pixel coordinate, or None (same as (0, 0)).
Since you want to fill the entire image, you can use the following:
image.paste( (200,200,200), (0, 0, image.size[0], image.size[1]))
One possibility is to draw a rectangle:
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
#...
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.rectangle([(0,0),image.size], fill = (200,200,200) )
Or (untested):
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image).rectangle([(0,0),image.size], fill = (200,200,200) )
(Although it is surprising there is no simpler method to fill a whole image with one background color, like setTo for opencv)
