PIL - Convert GIF Frames to JPG

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Image.open('image.gif').convert('RGB').save('image.jpg')

First of all, JPEG doesn't support transparency! But that's not the only problem.. As you move to the next frame of the GIF the palette information is lost (problem witn PIL?) - so PIL is unable to correctly convert to the RGBA framework (Hence the first frame is okish, but all the others are screwy). So the work-around is to add the palette back in for every frame, (which is what you were doing in your last code example, but your trouble was that you were saving as RGB not RGBA so you had no alpha/ transparency channel. Also you were doing a few unnecessary things..). Anyhow, here are the .png's with transparency and the corrected code, hope its of some use :)

import Image
import sys

def processImage(infile):
    try:
        im = Image.open(infile)
    except IOError:
        print "Cant load", infile
        sys.exit(1)
    i = 0
    mypalette = im.getpalette()

    try:
        while 1:
            im.putpalette(mypalette)
            new_im = Image.new("RGBA", im.size)
            new_im.paste(im)
            new_im.save('foo'+str(i)+'.png')

            i += 1
            im.seek(im.tell() + 1)

    except EOFError:
        pass # end of sequence

processImage('gif_example.gif')

When viewing an image on an image viewer, even when transparency is set to zero, it tends to display the image as black. One way to be sure that your image is truly transparent is to merge it over another. The 'emoticon' should be seen whilst not obstructing the other image.Try:

background = Image.open('someimage.jpg') #an existing image
foreground = Image.open('foo.jpg') #one of the above images
background.paste(foreground, (0,0), foreground)
background.save('trial.jpg') #the composite image

Theoretically, if you open 'trial.jpg' in the image viewer and the content of the initial image is preserved and on top of it lies the foo image then you'll know for sure if it's just the image viewer and your images are fine...