The Pillow package lets you draw text on images using Python. This includes using TrueType and OpenType fonts. You have a lot of flexibility when adding this text to your images. If you’d like to know more, you should check out Drawing Text on Images with Pillow and Python. Note: The code and fonts used […]
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Pillow supports drawing text on your images in addition to shapes. Pillow uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts, limited to 256 characters. Pillow also supports TrueType and OpenType fonts as well as other font formats supported by the FreeType library. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Drawing Text
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This week we welcome Carl Friedrich Bolz (@cfbolz) as our PyDev of the Week! Carl is a core developer of PyPy, which is an RPython variant of CPython that runs faster in general than regular Python. If you’d like to know more about what Carl is up to, you can check out his Github profile.
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Python has the concept of the virtual environments built-in to the language. A Python virtual environment is an environment where you can install 3rd party packages for testing without affecting the system Python installation. Each virtual environment has its own set of installed packages and, depending on the virtual environment and how it’s set up,
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The Pillow package gives you the ability to extract Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata from images. You can get a lot of information about your images via the Exif data. However, there are some key data points that are more useful than others. For those pieces of data, it’s nice to create a GUI
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My Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python is ending in 8 days. You should check it out and learn how you can edit photos with Python! You will learn about the following topics in this book: Chapter 1 – Pillow Basics Chapter 2 – Colors Chapter 3 – Getting Image Metadata
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This week we welcome Leodanis Pozo Ramos (@lpozo78) as our PyDev of the Week! Leodanis is a contributor and author for Real Python. You can see some of his projects over on Github or see what he’s up to on his own website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Leodanis better! Can you
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When you are creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), you will often find that you need to create more than one window. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two windows with PySimpleGUI. PySimpleGUI is one of the easiest Python GUIs to get started with. It wraps other Python GUIs and gives them a
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This week we welcome Claudia Regio (@ClaudiaRegio) as our PyDev of the Week! Claudia is a program manager for Python Data Science with a focus on Python Notebooks in Visual Studio Code at Microsoft. She also blogs on Microsoft’s dev blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know Claudia better! Can you tell us a
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Did you know that you can get EXIF data from JPG image files using the Python programming language? You can use Pillow, the Python Imaging Library’s friendly fork to do so. You can read an article about that on this website if you want to. Here is some example code for getting regular EXIF data
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Python 101 2nd Edition is the latest version of Python 101. This book is meant to help you learn Python and then go beyond the basics. I’ve always felt that a beginner’s book should teach more than syntax. If you’d like to try out Python 101, you can do so for FREE for the next
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This week we welcome Ken Youens-Clark (@kycl4rk) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the author of Tiny Python Projects from Manning. He has done video lectures for each of his chapters on YouTube. Let’s spend some time getting to know Ken better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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The Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python, was fully funded yesterday. I know it can be hard to decide if you want to buy a book without seeing it, so I am posting the first 3 chapters of the book for free. You can download them with this Dropbox link. This
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Matt Harrison asked me to take part in his latest course, Effective Book Authoring. This course will help you learn how to write a technical book. Matt interviewed me about how I approach book writing. (Note: I actually covered this in my article last year). The neat thing about this course is that Matt teaches
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I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies of
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