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Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors.

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Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors.


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Pillow is a widely-used Python Imaging Library that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities. Pillow allows you to open, manipulate, and save various image file formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP. It is the friendly PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork that makes it easier for developers to handle images in their Python projects.

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"Python's image processing library"
Python Pillow has been a game-changer for image processing tasks. Its simplicity and extensive functionality make it a go-to tool for various appli...
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Avanish G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The go-to image library"
The best thing I liked about PILlow was that it is very easy to use. You can easily play with it and use little tweaks to create entirely different...
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"A very Good library for the Inage Processing in python."
This is a good tool for reading images and then convert to the NumPy arrays and this creates lots of easy work to manipulate the images.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

Python Pillow has been a game-changer for image processing tasks. Its simplicity and extensive functionality make it a go-to tool for various applications. Whether it's resizing, cropping, or applying filters, Pillow's API provides a straightforward way to handle these tasks. The library also supports a wide range of image formats, making it versatile for different project requirements. For beginners, Pillow is particularly friendly, offering an accessible entry point for basic image manipulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

While Pillow excels in many aspects, it's not without its drawbacks. Users engaging in heavy image processing might find some speed concerns compared to lower-level libraries optimized for performance. Additionally, there have been occasional mentions of documentation gaps, with users expressing a desire for more detailed and beginner-friendly documentation to enhance the overall user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my experience, Pillow has proven invaluable for quick and effective image edits. Whether it's resizing images on the fly, rotating them as needed, or performing other basic operations like image preprocesssing for deeplearning task (computer vision), Pillow provides a reliable and convenient solution. Its scripting capabilities make it a friend for automating image-related tasks without delving into the complexities of more advanced image processing libraries. For everyday image operations, Pillow stands out as a solid and dependable choice in the Python ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The best thing I liked about PILlow was that it is very easy to use. You can easily play with it and use little tweaks to create entirely different images. It gives a whole new dimension to your creativity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

Even though it is very easy to use, and has a lot of functionalities, it still misses some optimization, primarily because it uses Python for its core implementation. Also, it is not a very good tool for feature extractions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Make sure that you are open to learn new things, and very often, on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Python pillow provides you with a great advantage for doing small tasks at large intervals like image compression on uploading an image. I found that for smaller tasks, OpenCV is just overkill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

This is a good tool for reading images and then convert to the NumPy arrays and this creates lots of easy work to manipulate the images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

when we need to train the image for the model in CNN then sometimes the converted image of the NumPy array doesn't work maybe it's due to the different dimensions but don't get the accurate answer in the error logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use this library for the reading image and change the dimension for the model training and lots of image-related problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

Works is a large number of image formats. The library has a pre-defines set of filters that can be applied to the images and it can be used to convert an image from one format to another. It performs other operations like cropping an image, applying water marks, or drawing 2d shapes to a selected image all using python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

python pillow does not seem to have an limitations that I can think of. The only thing is having to invest time to truly understand how to use the library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

python library makes for a good building tool for a photo manipulation application for the web, mobile and desktop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

Pillow is a fork of PIL. It is very easy to use and powerful at the same time. It is well documented and maintained. Supports both Python 2.7 and 3.

Generally if you need to work with images and do resizing, rotation , cropping or adding watermarks, then it's a good library to start with and will save you a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

It might not work for a very advance image manipulations, but will definitely be a good choice for most of the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If you need to work with images and do some image manipulation then this library will be a good solution for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for basic image manipulations like resizing, rotating, cropping images and adding watermarks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

PIL is the Python imaging library and Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. Pillow allows us to work with, edit, manipulate images easily, dynamically, effectively and efficiently using Python. Scope of image manipulation in Pillow using Python is enormous. It includes resizing images, rotate images, add filters to images, crop images dynamically, modifying colors, changing or removing background colors, adding watermarks, converting to another format of images as and when needed. Best part is simple command like application that can do all complex image manipulation with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

Didn't find any major issues that may drive me to dislike the product but few minor thinks I don't like (and I am confident that those will be corrected over period of time)

1. There is no option of disable delta frame. Little problem for animated images like gif

2. There are few mine types missing even in latest version

3. Will get system errors on adhoc images. Don't know the reason neither log file says anything that can help to dig into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering python pillow:

It saves tons of our time in image editing and manipulation for different features and functionalities in our image heavy websites. We are also implementing realtime personalization and preference that need automatic conversion of image colors, background colors, borders and size. Pillow is a great help. It's an amazing software that saves tons of time. Highly recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our website is contains lots of images. Not only just responsive design of our website need images at differents shapes and sizes, we also need images in different sizes for functionalities like thumbnails, image gallery, personalized image color (based on users preferences), story based images etc. All of those need original image to modify manually and keep different version at different image folder. Not only it needed lots of manual efforts but also dynamically rationalization is impossible with that approach. With Python pillow, develop the script at once and run it automatically as and when needed to produce desired outcome. It saves tons of time in image manipulations and enabled us realtime personalization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

Well documented, lots of tutorials online, ease in applying effects and changes as crop, watermarking, flip, rotate in multiple images and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

For now nothing. I still have difficulty with some of the functions, but this is because I'm still learning how to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If you're searching for a tool that let you work with multiple images with ease, I recommend learning Pillow. At first, it seems this tool is only used for large projects and is intimidating at first, but Pillow works perfectly with small projects too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use to apply effects, watermark multiple images and to crop and resize images downloaded using the requests library; it's handier using Pillow when some of the photos are on a grid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

This PIL makes working with our graphics libraries and image archives very easy. Using this in conjunction with our Python programing projects avoids image loss or duplication... save money and time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

I really have not found any feature shortcoming during the 4 months I have been using the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If you have extensive image archives/libraries this is the product that will solve many of your bottlenecks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Utilizing optimum efficiency with our image libraries in our website desing projects is my number one "like" for this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

python pillow is one of the best Imaging Library. Pillow builds on this, adding more features and support for Python 3. It supports various image extensions like PNG, JPEG, PPM, GIF, TIFF and BMP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

I am just loving this library. I did not find anything negative so far. It is just amaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would definitely recommend this library. It is a light-weight component and provides all features at one place. It has a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging, introspection features, and numerical computing environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was looking out for a library where I can data analysis in Machine Learning, and also for plain programming. I found this tool very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about python pillow?

Easy and intuitive manipulation of multimedia with python,. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about python pillow?

I can't think of anything I dislike. It's not as easy as Paint (joke) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is python pillow solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to implement a solution with batch Image processing and resizing. We also found that pillow helps with space saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.