Python Imaging Library (PIL and pillow)

Install

Pillow is a friendly fork of PIL (because PIL is not setuptools compatible):

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install liblcms1-dev

pip install pillow

Windows

Download

Download PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe from http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Install

Run the installer (if using Vista, run as Administrator).

Usage

$ python
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> im = Image.open('harp.jpg')
>>> print im.format, im.size, im.mode
JPEG (437, 599) RGB

Issues

Try a pip uninstall, followed by an install. If new dependencies have been installed, then pillow might be able to support more file formats:

pip uninstall pillow
pip install pillow