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BlendModes

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Use this module to apply a number of blending modes to a background and foreground image.

Credits

Credits to:

MIT License Copyright (c) 2019 Paul Jewell

For implementing blending from the Open Raster Image Spec

MIT License Copyright (c) 2018 Addison Elliott

For implementing blending from Paint.NET

MIT License Copyright (c) 2017 pashango

For implementing a number of blending functions used by other popular image editors

Examples

Be sure to include the following for the functions below

from blendmodes.blend import blendLayers, BlendType

background = Image.open(THISDIR + "/background.png")
foreground = Image.open(THISDIR + "/foreground.png")

Normal

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.NORMAL)

Normal

Multiply

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.MULTIPLY)

Multiply

Additive

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.ADDITIVE)

Additive

ColourBurn

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.COLOURBURN)

ColourBurn

ColourDodge

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.COLOURDODGE)

ColourDodge

Reflect

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.REFLECT)

Reflect

Glow

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.GLOW)

Glow

Overlay

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.OVERLAY)

Overlay

Difference

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DIFFERENCE)

Difference

Negation

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.NEGATION)

Negation

Lighten

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.LIGHTEN)

Lighten

Darken

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DARKEN)

Darken

Screen

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.SCREEN)

Screen

XOR

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.XOR)

XOR

SoftLight

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.SOFTLIGHT)

SoftLight

HardLight

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.HARDLIGHT)

HardLight

GrainExtract

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.GRAINEXTRACT)

GrainExtract

GrainMerge

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.GRAINMERGE)

GrainMerge

Divide

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DIVIDE)

Divide

Hue

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.HUE)

Hue

Saturation

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.SATURATION)

Saturation

Colour

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.COLOUR)

Colour

Luminosity

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.LUMINOSITY)

Luminosity

PinLight

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.PINLIGHT)

PinLight

VividLight

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.VIVIDLIGHT)

VividLight

Exclusion

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.EXCLUSION)

Exclusion

DestIn

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DESTIN)

Exclusion

DestOut

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DESTOUT)

Exclusion

DestAtop

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.DESTATOP)

Exclusion

SrcAtop

blendLayers(background, foreground, BlendType.SRCATOP)

Exclusion

Documentation

See the Docs for more information.

Install With PIP

pip install blendmodes

Head to https://pypi.org/project/blendmodes/ for more info

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This program has been written for Python versions 3.7 - 3.10 and has been tested with both 3.7 and 3.10

Install Python on Windows

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choco install python

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How to run

Windows

  • Module py -3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

  • File py -3.x [file] or ./[file]

Linux/ MacOS

  • Module python3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

  • File python3.x [file] or ./[file]

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  4. Type 'git clone' followed by URL in step 2

    git clone https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/BlendModes
    

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