imsave

imsave

skimage.external.tifffile.imsave(filename, data, **kwargs) [source]

Write image data to TIFF file.

Refer to the TiffWriter class and member functions for documentation.

Parameters:

filename : str Name of file to write. data : array_like Input image. The last dimensions are assumed to be image depth, height, width, and samples. kwargs : dict Parameters ‘byteorder’, ‘bigtiff’, and ‘software’ are passed to the TiffWriter class. Parameters ‘photometric’, ‘planarconfig’, ‘resolution’, ‘description’, ‘compress’, ‘volume’, and ‘extratags’ are passed to the TiffWriter.save function.

Examples

>>> data = numpy.random.rand(2, 5, 3, 301, 219)
>>> description = u'{"shape": %s}' % str(list(data.shape))  
>>> imsave('temp.tif', data, compress=6,  
...        extratags=[(270, 's', 0, description, True)])