Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to download an image from the web in Python. To make it more fun, we have the following running scenario: Sven, a Journalist from Greeland, is writing about Glacier Calving. His editor would like photos of iceberg collapses in the area accompanying his article. … Read more
For my current web project I need to upload 200 images to my website. All of them are in the same folder. Here’s the problem: 🤯 Challenge: My images have file sizes of 2 to 3 MB, so they are far too big and will significantly slow down my website. 👉 To reduce the file … Read more
This blog describes a fun mini Python project using AI image creation for creating artwork for an advent calendar implemented using PyGame. Context It’s December 1st, and my daughter has just opened the first door on her physical advent calendar, counting down the days of the festival of general consumerism that some people call Christmas. … Read more
In this post, I will show you how you can display a video file in Python – with and without OpenCV. I will also explain the codes and show you step by step. What is Opencv? OpenCV is one of the most widely used open-source libraries for computer vision tasks such as image processing, object … Read more
Quick Fix: Python raises the ImportError: No module named ‘face_recognition’ when it cannot find the library face-recognition. It occurs if you haven’t installed face-recognition explicitly with pip install face-recognition, or you have different Python versions on your computer, and face-recognition is not installed for the particular version you’re using. You also need to pip install … Read more
Quick Fix: Python raises the ImportError: No module named ‘imutils’ when it cannot find the library imutils. The most frequent source of this error is that you haven’t installed imutils explicitly with pip install imutils. Alternatively, you may have different Python versions on your computer, and imutils is not installed for the particular version you’re … Read more
Given an image as a .png or .jpeg file. How to convert it to a CSV file in Python? Example image: Convert the image to a CSV using the following steps: Read the image into a PIL.Image object. Convert the PIL.Image object to a 3D NumPy array with the dimensions rows, columns, and RGB values. … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you how to use the Pillow Library in Python to modify and manipulate images. To make it more interesting, we have the following running scenario: Creative Prints is an online store accepting images from Photographers wishing to sell their art. The Manager would like you to … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to convert an image from RGB to Grayscale. Aaron, an Icelandic Photographer, has a beautiful picture of their famous Elephant Rock. He needs to convert this picture from an RGB to Grayscale representation and has asked for your assistance. 💡Note: To follow along, right-click … Read more
Problem Formulation Given an image, how to get the size of the image with PIL or any other Python library? Getting the size of an image with Python PIL(Python Image Library) basically implies that you want to get its height and width in pixels. Example: Consider the following image: 🔥Challenge: Get the size of the … Read more
Introduction Pillow is a free Python image library based in PIL (the official Python Image Library), born as a Git fork. PIL only supports up to Python 2.7, and as they don’t intend to advance with the development and Pillow is continuously updated, it is always recommended to use Pillow over PIL. Anyway, implementation for … Read more
Showing pictures in Python This post will show different ways of displaying pictures in Python. The options we will explore are: PIL (Python Image Library) OpenCV (Computer Vision Library) IPython Matplotlib Library Method 1: PIL (Python Image Library) PIL is the standard library to manage images in Python. They discontinued the project in 2011, but … Read more