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Pixel Perfection: A Creative Dive into Python Image Processing

Pillow Python

pixels into creative masterpieces using python pillow.

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Raster Image

Pixels and Colors are the basic building blocks of raster images.

The size of the image is defined in terms of pixels, like (1080 x 1080 px), (1920 x 1080 px), (100 x 100 px) etc.

Each pixels consists of color data, black & white or Gray scale or color info know as bands. For example, a PNG image has 4 band (R, G, B, A) for every pixel, representing the color value of Red (R), Green (G), Blue(B) and transparent value as A (Alpha).

Pillow (PIL)

Pillow is one of the popular python library, to handle raster images. It adds extensive file format supports and image processing capability to python interpreter.

Installation

rye init --virtual
rye add pillow
uv init .
uv sync
uv add pillow
python -m pip install pillow