Pasting a transparent image over a canvas .

[httpanand]

I need to paste a transparent image over a new image canvas made with pillow . But it automatically adds a black background in the output image . Can anyone help me to fix this ? Below is my code .

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont , ImageOps , ImageColor


image = Image.new('RGB', (250,400), 'red')
image = ImageOps.expand(image,border=4,fill='black')

icon = Image.open('icon.png')
image.paste(icon ,(150,295))


image.save("output.png")

[radarhere]

In the interest of giving you a quick answer, I suggest trying this -

image.paste(icon ,(150,295), icon)

[radarhere]

This is making use of the mask parameter - https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.Image.paste

[httpanand]

I knew alpha_composite() . But that doesn't work for me .. When i call that func , the whole canvas disappears !

[httpanand]

OMG Thanks <3 . @radarhere