Convert RGBA color to RGB

I’ve upvoted Johannes’ answer because he’s right about that. * A few comments have been raised that my original answer was not correct. It worked if alpha values were inverted from the normal. By definition, however, this won’t work in most cases. I’ve therefore updated the formula below to be correct for the normal case. … Read more

What are the practical differences when working with colors in a linear vs. a non-linear RGB space?

Let’s say you’re working with RGB colors: each color is represented with three intensities or brightnesses. You’ve got to choose between “linear RGB” and “sRGB”. For now, we’ll simplify things by ignoring the three different intensities, and assume you just have one intensity: that is, you’re only dealing with shades of gray. In a linear … Read more

Why rgb and not cmy? [closed]

There’s a difference between additive colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color) and subtractive colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color). With additive colors, the more you add, the brighter the colors become. This is because they are emitting light. This is why the day light is (more or less) white, since the Sun is emitting in almost all the visible wavelength spectrum. On the … Read more

Converting Hex to RGB value in Python

I believe that this does what you are looking for: h = input(‘Enter hex: ‘).lstrip(‘#’) print(‘RGB =’, tuple(int(h[i:i+2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))) (The above was written for Python 3) Sample run: Enter hex: #B4FBB8 RGB = (180, 251, 184) Writing to a file To write to a file with handle fhandle while … Read more

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