Installing PIL on Python 3.7 to make thumbnails

In this video: PIL or Pillow or how to … image

When you want to work with images in Python, there is nothing better than a pillow… module. To install it, go into the cmd and type pip install Pillow, like you can see in the video below. In the same video we will show how to…

Create a thumbnail with Python and PIL

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# code to make a thumbnail

from PIL import Image

im = Image.open("getit.png")
im.thumbnail((128, 128), Image.ANTIALIAS)
im.save("thumbnail.png", "PNG")

 

It’s very easy to use the PIL / Pillow module in Python. Let’s see a fresh install in Python 3.7, the ultimate Python version (july 2018, now).

The video with only code to thumbnail an image (no installation of PIL)