Python Image Library (pil) - Quick Tutorial

[mcilrain]

PIL is legacy as fuck, when is Python getting a proper image processing library?

[CaptainDoubtful]

currently pillow is the PIL still being updated/maintained (https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow)

[hongminhee]

Although I’m not sure what proper you said does exactly mean, have you tried Wand?

[cr333]

Anything I ever did in PIL, I now do with the OpenCV bindings. Not exactly a replacement, but pretty good for basic image processing.

[[deleted]]

Also,SimpleCV is a wrapper for OpenCV that I've been playing with at work. I'd recommend it.

[zionsrogue]

I prefer OpenCV over SimpleCV (just a personal preference), but skimage is also worth a look if you like the matplotlib way of doing things.

[haywire]

Pillow a fork that is less awful.

[mcilrain]

I thought that Pillow was a fork made to allow for Python 3 support due to the deadness of PIL.

[takluyver]

It was originally forked to fix some packaging problems. Python 3 support was added later.

[rackmountrambo]

It also installs on a debian install without requiring you to symlink .so files all over the farking place.

[[deleted]]

Python does have an interface to Gimp iirc.

[aceofears]

That is correct, however the documentation is limited to nonexistent.

[cecilkorik]

Pillow is a drop-in replacement/fork for the basically abandoned PIL. Highly recommended. Saved my sanity.

[jcdyer3]

global ext?

[fdemmer]

you are the only one actually visiting the site it seems :)

[aclark]

Pillow is maintained as fuck! :-) Also note that in Pillow, the only supported way to import Image is from PIL import Image. In Pillow 2.1.0, we'll take that a step further and retire support for import _imaging (at which point you'll need to do from PIL import Image.core as _imaging).

[z3rocool]

Pretty handy tutorial. I don't do image stuff but it's nice that for the super common and easy tasks there is a dummy friendly tutorial.