python - How can I select the good colors from an image with OpenCV and mask?

Question

I'm trying to select the green color in an image using OpenCV (the method to do it comes from this website. The image I'm treating is :

import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

greenhsv = (60, 255, 255)
green2hsv=(70,100,170)
g_square = np.full((10, 10, 3), greenhsv, dtype=np.uint8)/255.0
plt.imshow(hsv_to_rgb(g_square))
plt.show()
g1_square = np.full((10, 10, 3), green2hsv, dtype=np.uint8)/255.0
plt.imshow(hsv_to_rgb(g1_square))
plt.show()

nucl = cv2.imread('./Pictures/image_nucleation_essai0.png')
nucl = cv2.cvtColor(nucl, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
plt.imshow(nucl)
plt.show()

hsv_nucl = cv2.cvtColor(nucl, cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)

mask = cv2.inRange(hsv_nucl, greenhsv,green2hsv)
result = cv2.bitwise_and(nucl, nucl, mask=mask)
plt.imshow(mask, cmap="gray")
plt.show()
plt.imshow(result)
plt.show()

The result is :

So the mask did not work.

Answer 1

Your color ranges are not quite right yet. Also the variables in the inRange() function are in the wrong order. It's from-to, so the darker color must be first. Change your code to cv2.inRange(hsv_nucl, green2hsv,greenhsv) You can use/tweak the values in the code below, that works.
Result:

With white background:

import numpy as np 
import cv2

# load image
img = cv2.imread("Eding.png")
# convert to HSV
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV) 
# set lower and upper color limits
lower_val = np.array([50,100,170])
upper_val = np.array([70,255,255])
# Threshold the HSV image to get only green colors
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower_val, upper_val)
# apply mask to original image - this shows the green with black blackground
only_green = cv2.bitwise_and(img,img, mask= mask)

# create a black image with the dimensions of the input image
background = np.zeros(img.shape, img.dtype)
# invert to create a white image
background = cv2.bitwise_not(background)
# invert the mask that blocks everything except green -
# so now it only blocks the green area's
mask_inv = cv2.bitwise_not(mask)
# apply the inverted mask to the white image,
# so it now has black where the original image had green
masked_bg = cv2.bitwise_and(background,background, mask= mask_inv)
# add the 2 images together. It adds all the pixel values, 
# so the result is white background and the the green from the first image
final = cv2.add(only_green, masked_bg)

#show image
cv2.imshow("img", final)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()