Learn how to convert one or more of your photos into a PDF using the Python programming language and the Pillow package in Mike Driscoll’s latest video tutorial! Learn more about working with PDFs in Python in Mike’s book: ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python Want to learn more about image processing with Python and […]
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how to rotate and mirror images with Python and the Pillow package. This is also known as transposing an image. Want to learn more about working with images with Python? Check out my book: Pillow: Image Processing with Python Leanpub – eBooks (epub, mobi and PDF) Gumroad –
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The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is a 3rd party Python package that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It allows you to process photos and do many common image file manipulations. The current version of this software is in Pillow, which is a fork of the original PIL to support Python 3. Several
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ImageMagick is an open-source tool that you can use to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images. It supports over 200 image formats. According to its website, ImageMagick can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear, and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses, and Bézier curves. For
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Python can be used to read in the common MP4 video format and convert it to an animated GIF. Of course, you can use a pre-built piece of software if you’d rather, but it’s fun (and a good learning experience) to do it yourself. In this tutorial, you will learn the following: How to extract
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Animated GIFs are an image type that contains multiple images with slight differences. These are then played back kind of like a cartoon is. You could even think of it as a flip-book with a stick man that is slightly different on each page. When you flip the book, the image appears to move. You
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Andy Warhol is a well-known artist who created a famous image where there are multiple copies of the same face but with different background colors. You can do a similar trick with software using Python and the Pillow package. You will also need to have NumPy installed to make this work. Let’s find out how
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There are lots of fun Python snippets out there that you can use to convert your photos into ASCII art. Anthony Shaw, an author, and contributor at Real Python, has his own snippet on GitHub. Most of these small programs use the Pillow package. These programs work best with simple images, especially ones that don’t
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Drawing shapes on images is neat. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could draw the shapes interactively? That is the point of this tutorial. You will create a user interface using PySimpleGUI to allow you to draw shapes on images! The purpose of this user interface is to show you how you can make
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Pillow provides a drawing module called ImageDraw that you can use to create simple 2D graphics on your Image objects. According to Pillow’s documentation, “you can use this module to create new images, annotate or retouch existing images, and to generate graphics on the fly for web use.” If you need more advanced drawing capabilities
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The Pillow package gives you the ability to extract Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata from images. You can get a lot of information about your images via the Exif data. However, there are some key data points that are more useful than others. For those pieces of data, it’s nice to create a GUI
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Did you know that you can get EXIF data from JPG image files using the Python programming language? You can use Pillow, the Python Imaging Library’s friendly fork to do so. You can read an article about that on this website if you want to. Here is some example code for getting regular EXIF data
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Sometimes it’s fun to add a simple border to your photos. The Pillow package has a very easy method of adding such borders to your images via its ImageOps module. As usual, you will need to have Pillow installed to do any of the examples in this article. If you don’t have it already, you
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Sometimes when you take a photo you will find that it isn’t quite what you wanted. The picture looks great, but it’s just a little too dark. Or it’s a little blurry and you need to add sharpness. The sharpness issue isn’t anywhere near as bad nowadays because a lot of cameras will add sharpness
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Sometimes you will find yourself wanting to resize a photo. I usually want to do this for photos that I want to email or post on a website since some of my images can be quite large. Normal people use an image editor. I usually do as well, but for fun I thought I would
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