OpenCV - Saving images to a particular folder of choice

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I m learning OpenCV and Python  I captured some images from my webcam and saved them  But they are being saved by default into the local folder  I want to save them to another folder from direct path  How do I fix it

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Answer given by Jeru Luke is working only on Windows systems  if we try on another operating system  Ubuntu  then it runs without error but the image is saved on target location or path   Not working in Ubuntu and working in Windows    import cv2   img   cv2 imread  1 jpg   1    path     tmp    cv2 imwrite str path     waka jpg  img    cv2 waitKey 0    I run above code but the image does not save the image on target path  Then I found that the way of adding path is wrong for the general purpose we using OS module to add the path   Example    import os  final path   os path join path 1 path 2 path 3          working in Ubuntu and Windows   import cv2  import os  img   cv2 imread  1 jpg   1   path    D  OpenCV Scripts Images   cv2 imwrite os path join path    waka jpg   img   cv2 waitKey 0    that code works fine on both Windows and Ubuntu

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Thank you everyone  Your ways are perfect  I would like to share another way I used to fix the problem  I used the function os chdir path  to change local directory to path  After which I saved image normally

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You can do it with OpenCV s function imwrite   import cv2 cv2 imwrite  Path Image jpg   image name

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You can use this simple code in loop by incrementing count  cv2 imwrite  C  Sharat Python Images frame d jpg    count  image   images will be saved in the folder by name line frame0 jpg  frame1 jpg frame2 jpg etc

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FOR MAC USERS if you are working with open cv  import cv2  cv2 imwrite  path to folder image jpg  image

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The solution provided by ebeneditos works perfectly    But if you have cv2 imwrite   in several sections of a large code snippet and you want to change the path where the images get saved  you will have to change the path at every occurrence of cv2 imwrite   individually   As Soltius stated  here is a better way  Declare a path and pass it as a string into cv2 imwrite      import cv2 import os img   cv2 imread  1 jpg   1  path    D  OpenCV Scripts Images  cv2 imwrite os path join path    waka jpg    img  cv2 waitKey 0    Now if you want to modify the path  you just have to change the path variable   Edited based on solution provided by Kallz

[python] OpenCV - Saving images to a particular folder of choice

Not working in Ubuntu and working in Windows

working in Ubuntu and Windows

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