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
Quick Fix: Python raises the ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘Image’ when the PIL/pillow library providing the module Image is not installed but used as from PIL import Image or, wrongly, import Image. You can fix this by running pip install pillow. You may also want to try the following installation approaches: 💡 If you have … 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 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
The Python Imaging Library (Pillow) adds powerful image processing capabilities to your Python project. Problem Formulation: Given a PyCharm project. How to install the Pillow library in your project within a virtual environment or globally? Here’s a solution that always works: Open File > Settings > Project from the PyCharm menu. Select your current project. … Read more
How to Display an Image as Grayscale in Python Matplotlib? You can convert a given image to a grayscale image using four simple steps: Import the PIL and Matplotlib libraries Open the image with PIL.Image.open(filename). Convert the opened image to grayscale using img.convert(“L”) with greyscale mode “L”. Display the image using Matplotlib’s plt.imshow(gray_img, cmap=’gray’) function. … Read more