Programming · Beginner

Pillow online course

Open, resize, filter, and annotate images in Python with Pillow, the maintained fork of PIL.

Who it is for

Python users who need to batch-process images.

You should already know

Python 3 and pip. Work through the Python course first if import is still new.

You will be able to

  • Install Pillow and open an image
  • Resize and convert formats
  • Draw text and apply a filter

Lessons

  1. Open and save Image.open, convert, and save with an explicit format.
  2. Filters and drawing Blur, sharpen, and put a caption on an image.
  3. Create Text Watermarks with Pillow Learn how to add a text watermark to an existing image with Python and Pillow, load a TrueType font, position text near the bottom-left, preview it, and save a new image.
  4. Cropping Images with Pillow Learn how to crop rectangular regions from images with Python and Pillow using image coordinates, crop boxes, previewing, saving, and troubleshooting.
  5. Inspecting Image Attributes in Pillow Learn how to open images with Pillow and inspect size, format, mode, metadata, palettes, and frame counts with practical Python examples.
  6. Manipulating RGB Color Channels with Pillow Learn how to inspect, split, view, reorder, recombine, and save RGB color channels with Python's Pillow library.
  7. Rotate and Flip Images with Pillow Learn to rotate images by arbitrary angles or 90-degree increments and flip them horizontally or vertically with Python Pillow.