Question

What are some of the better libraries for image generation in Python? If I were to implement a GOTCHA (for example’s sake), thereby having to manipulate an image on the pixel level, what would my options be? Ideally I would like to save resulting image as a low-resolution jpeg, but this is mere wishing, I’ll settle for any common image format.

Thank you for your attention.

Answer 1

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is the de facto image manipulation library on Python. You can find it here, or through easy_install or pip if you have them.

Edit: PIL has not been updated in a while, but it has been forked and maintained under the name pillow. Just install it this way in a shell:

pip install Pillow

The import statements are still the same as PIL (e.g., from PIL import image) and is backward compatible.