Tried to split image and kept getting error message

this is the main failure. your image did not load.
‘mm.PNG’ is not, where your program starts
imread() returns None in that case.
you should add a check like :
if (np.shape(img)==()): #read error, you cant go on !
after each imread(), to be safe !

will return an empty [] then (again, see example above !),
and you cannot unpack that to a rgb tuple
(which would be bgr order in opencv anyway)