Pillow (PIL): 100 Tips and Strategies for Basic — Advanced Image Editing

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Pillow (PIL Fork) is a powerful Python Imaging Library that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. Here are 100 tips for working with Pillow:

1. Installation and Import:

1. Install Pillow with pip install Pillow.
2. Import the PIL module with from PIL import Image.

2. Image Opening and Display:

1. Open an image file with Image.open('path/to/image.jpg').
2. Display an image using image.show().

3. Image Attributes:

1. Get the size of an image with image.size.
2. Access the image mode with image.mode.
3. Get the file format with image.format.

4. Basic Image Operations:

1. Convert an image to grayscale with image.convert('L').
2. Rotate an image with image.rotate(degrees).
3. Flip an image horizontally or vertically with image.transpose().

5. Image Cropping and Resizing:

1. Crop an image with image.crop((left, top, right, bottom)).