I am using the Python Imaging Library to colorize a black and white image with a lookup table that defines the color relationships. The lookup table is simply a 256-element list of RGB tuples:
>>> len(colors)
256
>>> colors[0]
(255, 237, 237)
>>> colors[127]
(50, 196, 33)
>>>
My first version used the getpixel() and putpixel() methods:
for x in range(w):
for y in range(h):
pix = img.getpixel((x,y))
img.putpixel((x,y), colors[pix[0]])
This was horribly slow. A profile report pointed to the putpixel and getpixel methods as the culprits. A little investigation (i.e, read the docs) and I find "Note that this method is relatively slow." re: putpixel. (actual runtime: 53s in putpixel and 50s getpixel for a 1024x1024 image)
Based on the sugge