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Asked: 2026-05-26T19:06:53+00:00

I just wanted to write some text on picture (possibly with some simple effects

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I just wanted to write some text on picture (possibly with some simple effects like shadow). How can I do this with PIL?

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    First install Python Imaging Library (pip install Pillow)

    Note: you may need to change the path to your font file font_fname. 

    import numpy as np
import PIL
import PIL.Image as Image
import PIL.ImageDraw as ImageDraw
import PIL.ImageFont as ImageFont

font_fname = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf'
font_size = 200
font = ImageFont.truetype(font_fname, font_size)

h, w = 1080, 1920
bg_colour = (255, 255, 255)
bg_image = np.dot(np.ones((h,w,3), dtype='uint8'), np.diag(np.asarray((bg_colour), dtype='uint8')))
image0 = Image.fromarray(bg_image)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image0)
draw.text((530, 160), "hello world", font=font, fill='rgb(0, 0, 0)')
image0.save('hello_world.jpg')
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