How to get Base64 encoded PIL image

Question

over the past few hours, I have been trying to create a Base64 string for an image, but this will not work.

ship_color = (0,100,100,255)
img = Image.new("RGBA", (100,100))
for i in range(20):
   for j in range(20):
       img.putpixel((40 + i, 40 + j), ship_color)
img.save("tmp.png", format = "PNG")
im = open("tmp.png", "rb").read()
print(im)
base = base64.b64encode(im)
print(base)

When I try to create an image from String again, I get an exception:

img2 = Image.frombytes("RGBA", (100, 100), base)
ValueError: not enough image data

Other online services for decoding Base64 also give an error, so the base64 string itself does not seem to be correct.

Example image String (from open (). Read ()):

b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00\x00\x00d\x00\x00\x00d\x08\x02\x00\x00\x00\xff\x80\x02\x03\x00\x00\x00lIDATx\x9c\xed\xd0\xd1\t\x800\x10\x05\xc1h\xad)+\xc5Z\xc3\x8a\x10"3\xff\xc7;v\x0c\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x008\xc7\xb5my\xce\xf7\xb7k}\xf7GpoY=\x94X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x81X\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0S\x0fX\xb7\x02(\x90HP\xa2\x00\x00\x00\x00IEND\xaeB`\x82'

example base64 String:

b'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGQAAABkCAIAAAD/gAIDAAAAbElEQVR4nO3Q0QmAMBAFwWitKSvFWsOKECIz/8c7dgwAAAAAAAAAAAAAADjHtW15zve3a333R3BvWT2UWIFYgViBWIFYgViBWIFYgViBWIFYgViBWIFYgViBWIFYgVgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPBTD1i3AiiQSFCiAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'

Answer 1

Before you can decode, you need to base64 encode .

You can achieve this without creating a temporary file, using the file in memory, with io.BytesIO()

in_mem_file = io.BytesIO()
img.save(in_mem_file, format = "PNG")
# reset file pointer to start
in_mem_file.seek(0)
img_bytes = in_mem_file.read()

base64_encoded_result_bytes = base64.b64encode(img_bytes)
base64_encoded_result_str = base64_encoded_result_bytes.decode('ascii')

Answer 2

Image.frombytes() base64 , . .

, :

img2 = base64.b64decode(base)