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ImageMagick is an open-source tool that you can use to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images. It supports over 200 image formats. According to its website, ImageMagick can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear, and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses, and Bézier curves. For

Animated GIFs are an image type that contains multiple images with slight differences. These are then played back kind of like a cartoon is. You could even think of it as a flip-book with a stick man that is slightly different on each page. When you flip the book, the image appears to move. You

Andy Warhol is a well-known artist who created a famous image where there are multiple copies of the same face but with different background colors. You can do a similar trick with software using Python and the Pillow package. You will also need to have NumPy installed to make this work. Let’s find out how

Drawing shapes on images is neat. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could draw the shapes interactively? That is the point of this tutorial. You will create a user interface using PySimpleGUI to allow you to draw shapes on images! The purpose of this user interface is to show you how you can make

Pillow provides a drawing module called ImageDraw that you can use to create simple 2D graphics on your Image objects. According to Pillow’s documentation, “you can use this module to create new images, annotate or retouch existing images, and to generate graphics on the fly for web use.” If you need more advanced drawing capabilities

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

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

Sometimes it’s fun to add a simple border to your photos. The Pillow package has a very easy method of adding such borders to your images via its ImageOps module. As usual, you will need to have Pillow installed to do any of the examples in this article. If you don’t have it already, you