Scale images with PIL preserving transparency and color?

Question

Say you want to scale a transparent image but do not yet know the color(s) of the background you will composite it onto later. Unfortunately PIL seems to incorporate the color v

Answer 1

It appears that PIL doesn't do alpha pre-multiplication before resizing, which is necessary to get the proper results. Fortunately it's easy to do by brute force. You must then do the reverse to the resized result.

def premultiply(im):
    pixels = im.load()
    for y in range(im.size[1]):
        for x in range(im.size[0]):
            r, g, b, a = pixels[x, y]
            if a != 255:
                r = r * a // 255
                g = g * a // 255
                b = b * a // 255
                pixels[x, y] = (r, g, b, a)

def unmultiply(im):
    pixels = im.load()
    for y in range(im.size[1]):
        for x in range(im.size[0]):
            r, g, b, a = pixels[x, y]
            if a != 255 and a != 0:
                r = 255 if r >= a else 255 * r // a
                g = 255 if g >= a else 255 * g // a
                b = 255 if b >= a else 255 * b // a
                pixels[x, y] = (r, g, b, a)

Result: