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About the tutorial

This tutorial is about “Pillow” package, one of the important libraries of python for image
manipulation. Pillow is a free and open source library for the Python programming
language that allows you to easily create & manipulate digital images.

In this tutorial, you will see the hands-on approach to learn different functionalities of
pillow, much more than, read & save an image, creating thumbnail & merge to images,
blur, crop, flip & rotate images, resizing & adding watermark, adding filters & working with
colors to an image and use of pillow & numpy in machine learning.

Audience
This tutorial is basically designed to work as a guide for developers who wants to learn
python capabilities, automate image editing. It is also for the beginners who wish to know
the image processing capabilities of python using pillow package and for the web
developers who wants to update and use images with logos & watermark on their websites.

Prerequisites
It would be helpful if you have prior knowledge on any of the below mentioned technologies
such as access to computer & python is installed in it (else we need to install it), basic
understanding of python data types and functions and ability to install Python
dependencies, i.e. “pip install ‘package_name’”.

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Table of Contents
About the tutorial ............................................................................................................................................ ii

Audience .......................................................................................................................................................... ii

Prerequisites .................................................................................................................................................... ii

Copyright & Disclaimer .................................................................................................................................... ii

Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................... iii

1. Python Pillow ― Overview ....................................................................................................................... 1

2. Python Pillow — Environment Setup ........................................................................................................ 2

Installing Pillow using pip ................................................................................................................................ 2

3. Python Pillow — Using Image Module ...................................................................................................... 3

Opening, rotating and displaying an image ..................................................................................................... 3

Attributes of Image Module ............................................................................................................................ 5

4. Python Pillow — Working with Images ..................................................................................................... 8

Reading an Image ............................................................................................................................................ 8

Saving an Image ............................................................................................................................................. 10

5. Python Pillow — Creating Thumbnails .................................................................................................... 12

6. Python Pillow — Merging Images ........................................................................................................... 15

7. Python Pillow — Blur an Image ............................................................................................................... 22

Simple blur..................................................................................................................................................... 22

Box blur ......................................................................................................................................................... 24

Gaussian Blur ................................................................................................................................................. 26

8. Python Pillow — Cropping an Image ....................................................................................................... 29

9. Python Pillow — Flip and Rotate Images ................................................................................................. 32

10. Python Pillow — Resizing an Image......................................................................................................... 39

Resize and save the resized image ................................................................................................................ 39

11. Python Pillow — Creating a Watermark .................................................................................................. 42

12. Python Pillow — Adding Filters to an Image ........................................................................................... 45

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Filters ............................................................................................................................................................. 48

Python img.filter(CONTOUR) method ........................................................................................................... 50

Python img.filter(DETAIL) method ................................................................................................................ 52

Python img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE) method ................................................................................................. 54

Python img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE) method ..................................................................................... 56

Python img.filter(EMBOSS) method .............................................................................................................. 58

Python img.filter(FIND_EDGES) method ....................................................................................................... 60

Python img.filter(SMOOTH) method ............................................................................................................. 62

Python img.filter(SHARPEN) method ............................................................................................................ 63

13. Python Pillow — Colors on an Image ...................................................................................................... 67

Color Names .................................................................................................................................................. 67

ImageColor.getrgb() Method......................................................................................................................... 67

ImageColor. getcolor() Method ..................................................................................................................... 69

14. Python Pillow — ImageDraw Module ..................................................................................................... 71

Canvas ........................................................................................................................................................... 72

Drawing Shapes using ‘ImageDraw’ module ................................................................................................. 74

15. Python Pillow — Image Sequences ......................................................................................................... 80

16. Python Pillow — Writing Text on Image .................................................................................................. 82

Selecting the font .......................................................................................................................................... 83

17. Python Pillow — M L with Numpy........................................................................................................... 85

Creating image from Numpy Array................................................................................................................ 85

Creating greyscale images ............................................................................................................................. 86

Creating numpy array from an Image ........................................................................................................... 88

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 1. Python Pillow ― Overview Python Pillow

In today’s digital world, we come across lots of digital images. In case, we are working
with Python programming language, it provides lot of image processing libraries to add
image processing capabilities to digital images.

Some of the most common image processing libraries are: OpenCV, Python Imaging
Library (PIL), Scikit-image, Pillow. However, in this tutorial, we are only focusing on Pillow
module and will try to explore various capabilities of this module.

Pillow is built on top of PIL (Python Image Library). PIL is one of the important modules
for image processing in Python. However, the PIL module is not supported since 2011 and
doesn’t support python 3.

Pillow module gives more functionalities, runs on all major operating system and support
for python 3. It supports wide variety of images such as “jpeg”, “png”, “bmp”, “gif”, “ppm”,
“tiff”. You can do almost anything on digital images using pillow module. Apart from basic
image processing functionality, including point operations, filtering images using built-in
convolution kernels, and color space conversions.

Image Archives
The Python Imaging Library is best suited for image archival and batch processing
applications. Python pillow package can be used for creating thumbnails, converting from
one format to another and print images, etc.

Image Display
You can display images using Tk PhotoImage, BitmapImage and Windows DIB interface,
which can be used with PythonWin and other Windows-based toolkits and many other
Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkits.

For debugging purposes, there is a show () method to save the image to disk which calls
the external display utility.

Image Processing
The Pillow library contains all the basic image processing functionality. You can do image
resizing, rotation and transformation.

Pillow module allows you to pull some statistics data out of image using histogram method,
which later can be used for statistical analysis and automatic contrast enhancement.

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This chapter discusses how to install pillow package in your computer.

Installing pillow package is very easy, especially if you’re installing it using pip.

Installing Pillow using pip

To install pillow using pip, just run the below command in your command prompt:

python -m pip install pip

python -m pip install pillow

In case, if pip and pillow are already installed in your computer, above commands will
simply mention the ‘requirement already satisfied’ as shown below:

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To display the image, pillow library is using an image class within it. The image module
inside pillow package contains some important inbuilt functions like, load images or create
new images, etc.

Opening, rotating and displaying an image

To load the image, we simply import the image module from the pillow and call the
Image.open(), passing the image filename.

Instead of calling the Pillow module, we will call the PIL module as to make it backward
compatible with an older module called Python Imaging Library (PIL). That’s why our code
starts with “from PIL import Image” instead of “from Pillow import Image”.

Next, we’re going to load the image by calling the Image.open() function, which returns
a value of the Image object data type. Any modification we make to the image object can
be saved to an image file with the save() method. The image object we received using
Image.open(), later can be used to resize, crop, draw or other image manipulation
method calls on this Image object.

Example
Following example demonstrates the rotation of an image using python pillow:

from PIL import Image

#Open image using Image module
im = Image.open("images/cuba.jpg")
#Show actual Image
im.show()
#Show rotated Image
im = im.rotate(45)
im.show()

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the original and
rotated images using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Actual image

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Rotated image (45 degrees)

Attributes of Image Module

The instance of the Image class has some attributes. Let’s try to understand few of them
by example:

Image.filename
This function is used to get the file name or the path of the image.

>>>image = Image.open('beach1.jpg')
>>> image.filename
'beach1.jpg'

Image.format
This function returns file format of the image file like ‘JPEG’, ‘BMP’, ‘PNG’, etc.

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>>> image = Image.open('beach1.jpg')

>>>
>>> image.format
'JPEG'

Image.mode
It is used to get the pixel format used by the image. Typical values are “1”, “L”, “RGB” or
“CMYK”.

>>> image.mode
'RGB'

Image.size
It returns the tuple consist of height & weight of the image.

>>> image.size
(1280, 721)

Image.width
It returns only the width of the image.

>>> image.width
1280

Image.height
It returns only the height of the image.

>>> image.height
721

Image.info
It returns a dictionary holding data associated with the image.

>>> image.info
{'jfif': 257, 'jfif_version': (1, 1), 'dpi': (300, 300), 'jfif_unit': 1,
'jfif_density': (300, 300), 'exif': b"Exif\x00\x00MM\x00*\x00\x00\x00
....
....
\xeb\x00\x00'\x10\x00\x00\xd7\xb3\x00\x00\x03\xe8"}

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Image.palette
It returns the colour palette table, if any.

>>> image.palette

Output above: None

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This chapter elaborates on topics including how to read and save an image in Pillow.

Reading an Image
Reading and writing images using pillow library is very simple, with the help of PIL.Image
module function.

Syntax
Image.open(fp, mode=’r’)

Where

 fp: A filename (string), pathlib.Path object or a file object. The file object must
implement read(), seek() and tell() methods and be opened in binary mode.
 mode: It’s an optional argument, if given, must be ‘r’.

 Return value: An Image object.

 Error: If the file cannot be found, or the image cannot be opened and identified.

Example
Following is a very simple example, where we are going to open an image of any format
(We are using .jpg), display it in a window and then save it (default location) with another
file format (.png).

from PIL import Image

image = Image.open('beach1.jpg')
image.show()
image.save('beach1.bmp')
image1 = Image.open('beach1.bmp')
image1.show()

In the above example, we import the Image module from PIL library and then, call the
Image.open() function to read an image from disk, which returns an image object data
type. It will automatically determine the type of file by looking at the file content. For
reading, the open() function accepts a filename(string), a path object or an
image(file) object.

So, by using the open() function, we are actually reading the image. Image.open() will
read the image and get all the relevant information from the image.

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Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the original (.jpg)
and resaved (.bmp) images using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Actual image

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Resaved image (.bmp)

Saving an Image
The save() function writes an image to file. Like for reading (open() function), the save()
function accepts a filename, a path object or a file object that has been opened to write.

Syntax
Image.save(fp, format=None, **params)

Where,

 fp – A filename (string), pathlib.Path object or file object.

 format – Optional format override. If omitted, the format to use is determined
from the filename extension. If a file object was used instead of a filename, this
parameter should always to used.
 options – Extra parameters to the image writer.
 Return value: None

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 KeyError – If the output format could not be determined from the file name, use
the format option to solve this.
 IOError - If the file could not be written, the file may have been created, and may
contain partial data.

In short, the above syntax will save the image under the given filename. If no format is
specified, then it is based on current filename extension. To provide the additional
instructions to the writer, we use keyword options.

image.save('beach1.bmp')

In the above example, it saves the file based on the file extension to determine the type
of image, for example – the above will create a bmp file in our current working directory.

You can also explicitly specify the file type as a second parameter:

image.save('beach1.gif', 'GIF')

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Sometimes, it is required to have all images of equal height and width. One way to achieve
this, is by creating a thumbnail of all images using the thumbnail() function from pillow
library.

This method modifies the image to contain a thumbnail version of itself and the size of the
image will be no larger than the given size.

The method calculates an appropriate thumbnail size to preserve the aspect of the image,
calls the draft () method to configure the file reader (where applicable) and finally,
resizes the image.

Syntax
Image.thumbnail(size, resample=3)

Where,

 Size - Required size

 Resample – Optional resampling filter. It can be one of these PIL.Image.NEAREST,
PIL.Image.BILINEAR, PIL.Image.BICUBIC, or PIL.Image.LANCZOS. If omitted, it
defaults to PIL.Image.BICUBIC.

 Returns – None

Example
Following example demonstrates the creation of a thumbnail using python pillow:

from PIL import Image

def tnails():
try:
image = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
image.thumbnail((90,90))
image.save('images/thumbnail.jpg')
image1 = Image.open('images/thumbnail.jpg')
image1.show()
except IOError:
pass
tnails()

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Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the created
thumbnail using the default PNG display utility, as follows:

Original image

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Output image

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Pillow package allows you to paste an image onto another one. The merge() function
accepts a mode and a tuple of images as parameters, and combines them into a single
image.

Syntax
Image.merge(mode, bands)

Where,

 mode – The mode to use for the output image.

 bands – A sequence containing one single-band image for each band in the output
image. All bands must have the same size.
 Return value – An Image objects.

Using the merge() function, you can merge the RGB bands of an image as:

from PIL import Image

image = Image.open("beach1.jpg")
r, g, b = image.split()
image.show()
image = Image.merge("RGB", (b, g, r))
image.show()

On executing the above piece of code, you can see the original image and the image with
merge the RGB bands as shown below:

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Input image

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Output image

Merging two images

In the same way, to merge two different images, you need to:

 Create image object for the required images using the open() function.
 While merging two images, you need to make sure that both images are of same
size. Therefore, get each sizes of both images and if required, resize them
accordingly.
 Create an empty image using the Image.new() function.
 Paste the images using the paste() function.
 Save and display the resultant image using the save() and show() functions.

Example
Following example demonstrates the merging of two images using python pillow:

from PIL import Image

#Read the two images
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image1 = Image.open('images/elephant.jpg')
image1.show()
image2 = Image.open('images/ladakh.jpg')
image2.show()
#resize, first image
image1 = image1.resize((426, 240))
image1_size = image1.size
image2_size = image2.size
new_image = Image.new('RGB',(2*image1_size[0], image1_size[1]), (250,250,250))
new_image.paste(image1,(0,0))
new_image.paste(image2,(image1_size[0],0))
new_image.save("images/merged_image.jpg","JPEG")
new_image.show()

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the two input
images and the merged image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Input image1

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Input image2

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Merged image

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Blurring an image can be done by reducing the level of noise in the image by applying a
filter to an image. Image blurring is one of the important aspects of image processing.

The ImageFilter class in the Pillow library provides several standard image filters. Image
filters can be applied to an image by calling the filter() method of Image object with
required filter type as defined in the ImageFilter class.

There are various techniques used to blur images and we are going to discuss the below
mentioned techniques.

 Simple blur
 Box blur
 Gaussian blur

All these three techniques are going to use ‘Image.filter()’ method for applying the filter
to images.

Simple blur
It applies a blurring effect on to the image as specified through a specific kernel or a
convolution matrix.

Syntax
filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)

Example
#Import required Image library
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Open existing image

OriImage = Image.open('images/boy.jpg')
OriImage.show()

blurImage = OriImage.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)
blurImage.show()
#Save blurImage
blurImage.save('images/simBlurImage.jpg')

Output
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On executing, the above example generates the two standard PNG display utility windows
(in this case windows Photos app).

Original image

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Blurred image

Box blur
In this filter, we use ‘radius’ as parameter. Radius is directly proportional to the blur value.

Syntax
ImageFilter.BoxBlur(radius)

Where,

 Radius – Size of the box in one direction.

 Radius 0 – means no blurring & returns the same image.
 Radius 1 – takes 1 pixel in each direction, i.e. 9 pixels in total.

Example
#Import required Image library
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

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#Open existing image

OriImage = Image.open('images/boy.jpg')
OriImage.show()

#Applying BoxBlur filter

boxImage = OriImage.filter(ImageFilter.BoxBlur(5))
boxImage.show()

#Save Boxblur image

boxImage.save('images/boxblur.jpg')

Output
On executing, the above example generates the two standard PNG display utility windows
(in this case windows Photos app).

Original image

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Blurred image

Gaussian Blur
This filter also uses parameter radius and does the same work as box blur with some
algorithmic changes. In short, changing the radius value, will generate different intensity
of ‘Gaussianblur’ images.

Syntax
ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(radius=2)

Where,

 Radius – Blur radius

Example
#Import required Image library
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

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#Open existing image

OriImage = Image.open('images/boy.jpg')
OriImage.show()

#Applying GaussianBlur filter

gaussImage = OriImage.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(5))
gaussImage.show()

#Save Gaussian Blur Image

gaussImage.save('images/gaussian_blur.jpg')

Output
On executing, the above example generates the two standard PNG display utility windows
(in this case windows Photos app).

Original image

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Blurred image

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Cropping is one of the important operations of the image processing to remove unwanted
portions of an image as well as to add required features to an image. It is widely used
process in web applications, for uploading an image.

The crop() function of the image class in Pillow requires the portion to be cropped as
rectangle. The rectangle portion to be cropped from an image is specified as a four-element
tuple and returns the rectangle portion of the image that has been cropped as an image
Object.

Example
Following example demonstrates how to rotate an image using python pillow:

#Import required Image library

from PIL import Image

#Create an Image Object from an Image

im = Image.open('images/elephant.jpg')

#Display actual image

im.show()

#left, upper, right, lowe

#Crop
cropped = im.crop((1,2,300,300))

#Display the cropped portion

cropped.show()

#Save the cropped image

cropped.save('images/croppedBeach1.jpg')

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the original and
cropped images using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original image

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Cropped image

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While working on images using python image processing library, there are instances where
you need to flip an existing image to get some more insights out of it, to enhance its
visibility or because of your requirement.

Image module of the pillow library allows us to flip an image very easily. We are going to
use the transpose (method) function from the Image module for flipping the images. Some
of the mostly commonly used methods supported by ‘transpose()’ are:

 Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT – For flipping the image horizontally

 Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM – For flipping the image vertically
 Image.ROTATE_90 – For rotating the image by specifying degree

Example 1: Horizontally flipped Image

Following Python example reads an image, flips it horizontally, and displays the original
and flipped image using standard PNG display utility:

# import required image module

from PIL import Image

# Open an already existing image

imageObject = Image.open("images/spiderman.jpg")

# Do a flip of left and right

hori_flippedImage = imageObject.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)

# Show the original image

imageObject.show()

# Show the horizontal flipped image

hori_flippedImage.show()

Output

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Original image

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Flipped image

Example 2: Vertically Flipped Image

Following Python example reads an image, flips it vertically, and displays the original and
flipped image using standard PNG display utility:

# import required image module

from PIL import Image

# Open an already existing image

imageObject = Image.open("images/spiderman.jpg")

# Do a flip of left and right

hori_flippedImage = imageObject.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)

# Show the original image

imageObject.show()

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# Show vertically flipped image

Vert_flippedImage = imageObject.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
Vert_flippedImage.show()

Output
Original Image

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Flipped Image

Example 3: Rotate Image to a specific degree

Following Python example reads an image, rotates to a specified degree, and displays the
original and rotated image using standard PNG display utility:

# import required image module

from PIL import Image

# Open an already existing image

imageObject = Image.open("images/spiderman.jpg")

# Do a flip of left and right

hori_flippedImage = imageObject.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)

# Show the original image

imageObject.show()

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#show 90 degree flipped image

degree_flippedImage = imageObject.transpose(Image.ROTATE_90)
degree_flippedImage.show()

Output
Original Image

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Rotated Image

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Most of the digital image is a two-dimensional plane of pixels and it has a width and height.
The Image module from pillow library has an attribute size. This tuple consists of width
and height of the image as its elements. To resize an image, you call the resize() method
of pillow’s image class by giving width and height.

Resize and save the resized image

The program for resizing and saving the resized image is given below:

#Import required Image library

from PIL import Image

#Create an Image Object from an Image

im = Image.open("images/cat.jpg")

#Display actual image

im.show()

#Make the new image half the width and half the height of the original image

resized_im = im.resize((round(im.size[0]*0.5), round(im.size[1]*0.5)))

#Display the resized imaged

resized_im.show()

#Save the cropped image

resized_im.save('resizedBeach1.jpg')

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it displays the original and
resized images using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original Image

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Resized Image

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You have noticed that, some of the online photos are watermarked. Watermark is definitely
one of the better ways to protect your images from misuse. Also, it is recommended to
add watermark to your creative photos, before sharing them on social media to prevent it
from being misused.

Watermark is generally some text or logo overlaid on the photo that identifies who took
the photo or who owns the rights to the photo.

Pillow package allows us to add watermarks to your images. For adding watermark to our
image, we need “Image”, “ImageDraw” and “ImageFont” modules from pillow
package.

The ‘ImageDraw’ module adds functionality to draw 2D graphics onto new or existing
images. The ‘ImageFont’ module is employed for loading bitmap, TrueType and OpenType
font files.

Example
Following python program demonstrates how to add watermark to an image using python
pillow:

#Import required Image library

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

#Create an Image Object from an Image

im = Image.open('images/boy.jpg')
width, height = im.size

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
text = "sample watermark"

font = ImageFont.truetype('arial.ttf', 36)

textwidth, textheight = draw.textsize(text, font)

# calculate the x,y coordinates of the text

margin = 10
x = width - textwidth - margin
y = height - textheight - margin

# draw watermark in the bottom right corner

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draw.text((x, y), text, font=font)

im.show()

#Save watermarked image

im.save('images/watermark.jpg')

Output
Suppose, following is the input image boy.jpg located in the folder image.

After executing the above program, if you observe the output folder you can see the
resultant watermark.jpg file with watermark on it as shown below:

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The ImageFilter module contains definitions for a pre-defined set of filters, which we
used with Image.filter() method. These filters are used to change the looks and feel of
the image.

Example
Below example is Filtering an image:

from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

im = Image.open('jungleSaf2.jpg')

im1 = im.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)
im1.show()

im2 = im.filter(ImageFilter.MinFilter(3))
im2.show()

im3 = im.filter(ImageFilter.MinFilter) # same as MinFilter(3)

im3.show()

In above program, we have used the MinFilter() method, which is used to create a
minimum filter. It picks the lowest pixel value in a window with the given size.

ImageFilter.MinFilter(size=3)

Where,

size – The kernel size, in pixels.

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image, blurred image
and, the blurred image with MinFilter using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original Image

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Blurred Image

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Image blurred with mini filter

Filters
The current version of pillow library provides below mentioned set of predefined image
enhancement filters.

 BLUR
 CONTOUR
 DETAIL
 EDGE_ENHANCE
 EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE
 EMBOSS
 FIND_EDGES
 SHARPEN
 SMOOTH

 SMOOTH_MORE

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Example
Following python example applies the blur filter on an image saves it and, displays it using
standard PNG display utility:

#Import required image modules

from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)

#Create image object

img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(BLUR)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

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Output

In the same way, to the image.filter() method you can pass any of the following
parameters to get respective outputs:

 CONTOUR
 DETAIL
 EDGE_ENHANCE
 EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE
 EMBOSS
 FIND_EDGES
 SMOOTH
 SMOOTH_MORE
 SHARPEN

Python img.filter(CONTOUR) method

Following python example applies CONTOUR filter to the given image.

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Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(CONTOUR)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Original image

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Filtered image

Python img.filter(DETAIL) method

Following python example applies DETAIL filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter

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img1 = img.filter(DETAIL)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image, and the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Original image

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Filtered image

Python img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE) method

Following python example applies EDGE_ENHANCE filter to the given image:

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
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If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image, and the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Original image

Filtered image

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Python img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE) method

Following python example applies EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image, and the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original image

Filtered image

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Python img.filter(EMBOSS) method

Following python example applies EMBOSS filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(EMBOSS)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original image

Filtered image

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Python img.filter(FIND_EDGES) method

Following python example applies FIND_EDGES filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(FIND_EDGES)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original image

Filtered image

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Python img.filter(SMOOTH) method

Following python example applies SMOOTH filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(SMOOTH)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Original image

Filtered image

Python img.filter(SHARPEN) method

Following python example applies SHARPEN filter to the given image.

Example
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#Import required image modules

from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(SHARPEN)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Original image

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Filtered image

Following python example applies SHARPEN filter to the given image.

Example
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

#Import all the enhancement filter from pillow

from PIL.ImageFilter import (
BLUR, CONTOUR, DETAIL, EDGE_ENHANCE, EDGE_ENHANCE_MORE,
EMBOSS, FIND_EDGES, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_MORE, SHARPEN
)
#Create image object
img = Image.open('images/cat.jpg')
#Applying the blur filter
img1 = img.filter(SHARPEN)
img1.save('images/ImageFilter_blur.jpg')
img1.show()

Output
If you save the above program and execute, it shows the original image and, the filtered
image using standard PNG display utility, as follows:
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Filtered image

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 13. Python Pillow — Colors on an Image Python Pillow

The ImageColor module contains colors in different format arranged in tables and it also
contains converters from CSS3-style color specifiers to RGB tuples.

Color Names
The ImageColor module supports the following strings formats:

 Hexadecimal color specifiers, given as #rgb or #rrggbb. For example, #00ff00

represents pure green.
 #00ff00 hex color, red value is 0 (0% red), green value is 255(100% green) and
the blue value of its RGB is 0 (0% blue).
 Cylindrical – coordinate representations (also referred to as HSL) of color #00ff00
hue: 0.33, saturation: 1.00 and also the lightness value of 00ff00 is 0.50.

 The Image Color module provides around 140 standard color names, based on the
color’s supported by the X Window system and most web browsers. Color names
are case insensitive.

ImageColor.getrgb() Method
Convert a color string to an RGB tuple. If the string cannot be parsed, a ValueError
exception is raised by this function.

Syntax
PIL.ImageColor.getrgb(color)

Where,

 Arguments: color – A color string

 Return Value: (red, green, blue[, alpha])

Example 1
from PIL import ImageColor

# using getrgb
img = ImageColor.getrgb("blue")
print(img)

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img1 = ImageColor.getrgb("purple")
print(img1)

Output
(0, 0, 255)
(128, 0, 128)

Example 2
#Import required image modules
from PIL import Image,ImageColor

# Create new image & get color RGB tuple.

img = Image.new("RGB", (256, 256), ImageColor.getrgb("#add8e6"))

#Show image
img.show()

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Output

ImageColor. getcolor() Method

This method is same as getrgb(), however, converts the RGB value to a greyscale value,
if the mode isn’t The graphics commands support shape drawing and text annotation color
or a palette image. If the string cannot be parsed, this function raises a ValueError
exception.

Syntax
PIL.ImageColor.getcolor(color, mode)

Where,

 Arguments - A color string

 Return Value - (graylevel[, alpha]) or (red, green, blue[, alpha])

Example
#Import required image modules

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from PIL import Image,ImageColor

# using getrgb

img = ImageColor.getrgb("skyblue")
print(img)

img1 = ImageColor.getrgb("purple")
print(img1)

Output
(135, 206, 235)
(128, 0, 128)

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The ‘ImageDraw’ module provides simple 2D graphics support for Image Object.
Generally, we use this module to create new images, annotate or retouch existing images
and to generate graphics on the fly for web use.

The graphics commands support the drawing of shapes and annotation of text.

 An image can be well-thought-out to be a two-dimensional array of pixels (picture

elements). A pixel is the smallest dot of color being supported.
 The origin of the two-dimensional co-ordinate system used by ImageDraw, is in the
upper left corner of the image.
 The pillow color schemes we use is RGB. The color RGB representation and support
is provided by the module ImageColor.
 bitmap, OpenType or TrueType are the acceptable fonts for text annotations.
 Most of the drawing commands may require a bounding box parameter that
specifies the area on the image to which the command is to be applied.
 A sequence of co-ordinates can be represented as [ (x0, y0), (x1, y1),…(xn, yn)].
 For some drawing commands, we require angle values.

Example
Following python example draws a line across the given image:

#Import required libraries

import sys
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

#Create Image object

im = Image.open("images/logo.jpg")

#Draw line
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.line((0, 0) + im.size, fill=128)
draw.line((0, im.size[1], im.size[0], 0), fill=128)

#Show image
im.show()

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Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it draws a line across the
image and displays it using standard PNG display utility, as follows:

Canvas
 An ImageDraw is a Pillow drawable surface (i.e., a canvas) of an Image.
 ImageDraw.Draw(img) returns a drawable canvas representation of Image
parameter img. The background of the canvas is the "img" image.

Example
Following python example draws text on the given image:

#Import required modules from Pillow package

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

# get an image
base = Image.open('images/boy.jpg').convert('RGBA')
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# make a blank image for the text, initialized to transparent text color
txt = Image.new('RGBA', base.size, (255,255,255,0))

# get a font
fnt = ImageFont.truetype('E:/PythonPillow/Fonts/Pacifico.ttf', 40)

# get a drawing context

d = ImageDraw.Draw(txt)

# draw text, half opacity

d.text((14,14), "Tutorials", font=fnt, fill=(255,255,255,128))

# draw text, full opacity

d.text((14,60), "Point", font=fnt, fill=(255,255,255,255))
out = Image.alpha_composite(base, txt)

#Show image
out.show()

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Output

Drawing Shapes using ‘ImageDraw’ module

ImageDraw module allows us to create different shapes by first creating a drawing object
with the image you want to work with and then apply it. Some of the common shapes we
can draw using ‘ImageDraw’ module are as follows:

Line
Following is, the syntax to draw a line using python pillow:

draw.line(xy, fill=None, width=0)

The line() method draws a line from the upper left to lower right corners of bounding box
xy and canvas. The line is filled using color fill. Default values of None and 0 respectively
are for the parameters fill and width which are optional.

Example
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

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img = Image.new('RGB', (500, 300), (125, 125, 125))

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.line((200, 100, 300, 200), fill=(0, 0, 0), width=10)

img.show()

Output

Eclipse
Following is, the syntax to draw an ellipse using python pillow:

draw.ellipse(xy, fill=None, outline=None)

The ellipse() method draws the ellipse surrounded by bounding box xy on draw. The
shape is filled using color fill and the perimeter in color outline. Default values of None are
for the parameters fill and width which are optional.

Example
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from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

img = Image.new('RGB', (500, 300), (125, 125, 125))

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

draw.ellipse((200, 125, 300, 200), fill=(255, 0, 0), outline=(0, 0, 0))

img.show()

Output

Rectangle
Following is, the syntax to draw a rectangle using python pillow:

draw.rectangle(xy, fill=None, outline=None)

The rectangle() method draws the rectangle given bounding box xy on draw. The shape
is filled using color fill and the perimeter in color outline. Default values of None are for
the parameters fill and width which are optional.
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from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

img = Image.new('RGB', (500, 300), (125, 125, 125))

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

draw.rectangle(
(200, 125, 300, 200),
fill=(255, 0, 0),
outline=(0, 0, 0))
img.show()

Output

Polygon
Following is, the syntax to draw a rectangle using python pillow:

draw.polygon(seq, fill=None, outline=None)

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The polygon() method draws a polygon connecting with straight lines the co-ordinate
sequence locations seq on draw. The first and last co-ordinates in seq are also connected
by a straight-line. The shape is filled using color fill and the perimeter in color outline.
Parameters fill and outline are optional with default values None.

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

img = Image.new('RGB', (500, 300), (125, 125, 125))

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

draw.polygon(
((200, 200), (300, 100), (250, 50)),
fill=(255, 0, 0),
outline=(0, 0, 0))
img.show()

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Output

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 15. Python Pillow — Image Sequences Python Pillow

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) contains some basic support for Image sequences
(animation formats). FLI/FLC, GIF and a few experimental formats are the supported
sequence formats. TIFF files can contain more than one frame as well.

Opening a sequence file, PIL automatically loads the first frame in the sequence. To move
between different frames, you can use the seek and tell methods.

from PIL import Image

img = Image.open('bird.jpg')
#Skip to the second frame
img.seek(1)
try:
while 1:
img.seek(img.tell() + 1)
#do_something to img

except EOFError:
#End of sequence
pass

Output
raise EOFError
EOFError

As we can see above, you’ll get an EOFError exception when the sequence ends.

Most drivers in the latest version of library only allow you to seek to the next frame (as in
above example), to rewind the file, you may have to reopen it.

A sequence iterator class

class ImageSequence:
def __init__(self, img):
self.img = img
def __getitem__(self, ix):
try:
if ix:
self.img.seek(ix)
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return self.img
except EOFError:
raise IndexError # end of sequence

for frame in ImageSequence(img):

# ...do something to frame...

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You can write text on images by passing the location of the text, the text itself and the
color of the text. We can pass multiple other parameters to this method.

Example
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

img = Image.open(beach1.jpg')
d1 = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
d1.text((28, 36), "Hello, TutorialsPoint!", fill=(255, 0, 0))
img.show()
img.save("images/image_text.jpg")

Input

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute, it will add the given text on
it, and displays it using the standard PNG display utility, as follows:

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Selecting the font

There are numerous ways to select the font used for writing on the image. We can either
load fonts directly from the system by passing the full path to the function, or we can use
the ImageFont to load a TrueType font.

Example
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

img = Image.open('images/logo.jpg')
d1 = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
myFont = ImageFont.truetype('E:/PythonPillow/Fonts/FreeMono.ttf', 40)
d1.text((0, 0), "Sample text", font=myFont, fill =(255, 0, 0))
img.show()
img.save("images/image_text.jpg")

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In this chapter, we use numpy to store and manipulate image data using python imaging
library – “pillow”.

Before proceeding with this chapter open command prompt in administrator mode and
execute the following command in it to install numpy:

pip install numpy

Note: This works only if you have PIP installed and updated.

Creating image from Numpy Array

Creating an RGB image using PIL and save it as a jpg file. In the following example we
will:

 Create a 150 by 250-pixel array.

 Fill left half of the array with orange.
 Fill right half of the array with blue.

from PIL import Image

import numpy as np

arr = np.zeros([150, 250, 3], dtype=np.uint8)

arr[:,:100] = [255, 128, 0]

arr[:,100:] = [0, 0, 255]

img = Image.fromarray(arr)

img.show()

img.save("RGB_image.jpg")

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Creating greyscale images

Creating greyscale images is slightly different from creating an RGB image. We can use
the 2-dimensional array to create a greyscale image.

from PIL import Image

import numpy as np

arr = np.zeros([150,300], dtype=np.uint8)

#Set grey value to black or white depending on x position

for x in range(300):
for y in range(150):
if (x % 16) // 8 == (y % 16)//8:
arr[y, x] = 0
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else:
arr[y, x] = 255

img = Image.fromarray(arr)

img.show()

img.save('greyscale.jpg')

Output

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Creating numpy array from an Image

You can convert PIL image to numpy array and vice versa. A small program to demonstrate
the same is stated below.

Example
#Import required libraries
from PIL import Image
from numpy import array

#Open Image & create image object

img = Image.open('beach1.jpg')

#Show actual image

img.show()

#Convert an image to numpy array

img2arr = array(img)

#Print the array

print(img2arr)

#Convert numpy array back to image

arr2im = Image.fromarray(img2arr)

#Display image
arr2im.show()

#Save the image generated from an array

arr2im.save("array2Image.jpg")

Output
If you save the above program as Example.py and execute:

 It displays the original image.

 Displays the array retrieved from it.

 Converts the array back into image and displays it.

 Since we have used show() method the images are displayed using the default
PNG display utility, as follows.
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[[[ 0 101 120]

[ 3 108 127]
[ 1 107 123]
...
...

[[ 38 59 60]
[ 37 58 59]
[ 36 57 58]
...
[ 74 65 60]
[ 59 48 42]
[ 66 53 47]]

[[ 40 61 62]
[ 38 59 60]
[ 37 58 59]
...
[ 75 66 61]
[ 72 61 55]
[ 61 48 42]]

[[ 40 61 62]
[ 34 55 56]
[ 38 59 60]
...
[ 82 73 68]
[ 72 61 55]
[ 63 52 46]]]

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Image constructed from the array

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