Image Processing






BGR color palette



OpenCV is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision. Let’s create a window which will contain RGB color palette with track bars. By moving the trackbars the value of RGB Colors will change b/w 0 to 255. So using the same, we can find the color with its RGB values.

Create a black window with three color channels with resolution 512 x 512. Then create three ‘B’ ‘G’ ‘R’ trackbars using predefined functions of OpenCV library. Set the values of channels from 0 to 255. Merging the black window with these color trackbars.

Libraries Requires:

openCV and numpy

Example: Python program to create RGB color palette with trackbars
# Python program to create RGB color palette with trackbars importing libraries 
import cv2 
import numpy as np 
   
# empty function called when any trackbar moves 
def emptyFunction(): 
    pass
   
def main():   
    # blackwindow having 3 color chanels 
    image = np.zeros((512, 512, 3), np.uint8)  
    windowName ="Open CV Color Palette"
      
    # window name 
    cv2.namedWindow(windowName)  
       
    # there trackbars which have the name 
    # of trackbars min and max value  
    cv2.createTrackbar('Blue', windowName, 0, 255, emptyFunction) 
    cv2.createTrackbar('Green', windowName, 0, 255, emptyFunction) 
    cv2.createTrackbar('Red', windowName, 0, 255, emptyFunction) 
       
    # Used to open the window 
    # till press the ESC key 
    while(True): 
        cv2.imshow(windowName, image) 
          
        if cv2.waitKey(1) == 27: 
            break
          
        # values of blue, green, red 
        blue = cv2.getTrackbarPos('Blue', windowName) 
        green = cv2.getTrackbarPos('Green', windowName) 
        red = cv2.getTrackbarPos('Red', windowName) 
          
        # merge all three color chanels and 
        # make the image composites image from rgb    
        image[:] = [blue, green, red] 
        print(blue, green, red) 
           
    cv2.destroyAllWindows() 
  
# Calling main()          
if __name__=="__main__": 
    main() 
Output: