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Introduction to Pillow - Python Tutorial
From the course: Python Essential Libraries
Introduction to Pillow
- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to learn about the Pillow library and how you can use it to add image processing capabilities to your Python applications. Pillow is itself a fork of the PIL module, which is the Python Imaging Library. The original PIL only supported the Python 2 version and it's since been discontinued. Pillow is a lot more friendly to work with. It's compatible with Python 3 and it has some great features for working with graphics. So I've got the homepage for the Pillow library here in my browser and I've also got the documentation in this tab and the documentation is located at this link here. So if I scroll down to the Reference section, you can see that this library is pretty comprehensive. Now obviously, we're not going to cover most of this. My main goal here is to show you how to install the library and then use it for some common imaging operations, and I'll leave it to you to browse…
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