result of cv2 imread code example

Example 1: finding the format of an image in cv2

cv2.imread('abalone.jpg', cv2.IMREAD_COLOR).dtype

Example 2: python opencv check image read

import cv2 
import os.path

while not os.path.isfile("myImage.jpg"):
    #ignore if no such file is present.
    pass

img = cv2.imread("myImage.jpg", 0)

cv2.imwrite("result.jpg", img)