Image in pygame is black

Question

When I load my image in pygame (see code below), the image appears pitch black, instead of drawing properly!

Using Python 3.12.8

import pygame

pygame.init()

def imageload(imagepath):
    return pygame.image.load(imagepath)

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((300, 200), 0, 32)
pygame.display.set_caption('Python Clicker')
background_colour = (255,255,255)
cookieimage = Surface.convert(imageload('images/python.bmp'))
running = True

while running:
  screen.fill(background_colour)
  screen.blit(pygame.Surface((64,64), 0, cookieimage), (150, 100), None, 0)
  pygame.display.flip()

  for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
      running = False
      pygame.quit()

Black box in place of image.

screen.blit(pygame.transform.scale(cookieimage, (64, 64)), (150, 100)) — Rabbid76
– Rabbid76, Commented Jan 11 at 7:54
This was not a duplicate of that question, what are you all doing. — keventhen4
– keventhen4, Commented Jan 11 at 7:55
What color format is your BMP? And how do we know that the image is not black? — Thomas Weller
– Thomas Weller, Commented Jan 29 at 7:11
You didn't define the Surface. here is the correct approach: cookieimage = imageload('images/python.bmp').convert() — Omprakash S
– Omprakash S, Commented Apr 14 at 21:07

André · Accepted Answer · 2025-07-04 13:17:31Z

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You are painting an empty 64x64 surface, that is why it is black. In your line screen.blit(pygame.Surface((64,64), 0, cookieimage), (150, 100), None, 0) you are creating a new Surface, which is (i) not necessary and (ii) you provide the cookieimage as the depth argument, which is surely not what you want to do.

Replace the line with screen.blit(cookieimage, (150, 100), None, 0), you can also remove the parameters that are default anyway and it contracts down to screen.blit(cookieimage, (150, 100)).

answered Jul 4 at 13:17

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