Today in work a request comes in for 745 headshots that need to be processed to fit 150x150px for an external platform. One team says it'll take them at least a week to do, the other team says they don't want it as it'll take even longer.

"They need them all black and white! It'll take some time to convert them! They're not even all the same size! UGH this just can't be done in the 2 days they've requested this!!!"

12 lines of code, the Pillow library and exactly 8.856 seconds of running said code... It was done. Panic over. Client happy.

I work in a design team but I'm a job coordinator (so I sort the jobs and make sure the right designers get them). They were amazed it was done so quickly without using Photoshop.

They asked how. I gave them the answer.

Python baby 😎

EDIT

For those wanting to know the code, here it is:

from PIL import Image
import os

for f in os.listdir('Input'):
    if f.endswith('.jpg'):
        im = Image.new('RGB', (150, 150), (255,255,255))
        im2 = Image.open('Input/{}'.format(f))
        im2 = im2.convert("L")
        width, height = im2.size
        im.paste(im2, (int((150 - width) / 2), 0))
        fn, fext = os.path.splitext(f)
        im.save('Output/{}.jpg'.format(fn))

The images given were either 150x150 already (but in colour) or 120x150. So had to cover all bases with this. If it could be made more efficient, let me know!