Motivation: Because I wanted to quickly annotate text on images, AI provided me with a great solution, and processing with Python is the fastest. However, for a beginner with no programming background, it might be a bit daunting, which reignited my interest in learning Python. Problem: There are many screenshots, and I need to add … Read more
The Python Pillow library is an image processing library that extends and updates the original PIL (Python Imaging Library). Open, View, and Save from PIL import Image with Image.open("./res/LenaRGB.bmp") as img: # size: width and height, e.g., (1920, 1080) # format: color mode, e.g., RGB, L (grayscale) # mode: image format, e.g., png, bmp print(img.size, … Read more
Hey, Python developers! Imagine you’re running a super popular cherry e-commerce store, and every day you have to process a large number of cherry images. You need to resize these images, add watermarks, and optimize colors to ensure they display perfectly on your website and attract customers to make a purchase. But traditional image processing … Read more
Hello, Python developers! Today, we are going to talk about an amazing image processing tool — Pillow – SIMD. In this image-saturated era, whether at work or in life, we often deal with images. For example, in the real estate industry, agents need to process a large number of property photos, performing cropping, adjusting brightness … Read more
Pillow-SIMD: Boosting Image Processing Performance In the field of image processing, performance is often a key consideration, especially when dealing with large volumes of images or real-time processing. Pillow-SIMD is a high-performance branch of the Pillow library, designed specifically for speed optimization. It significantly enhances processing speed by utilizing SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) technology, … Read more
The Python Pillow library is quite familiar to everyone, as it is a great helper for image processing. However, it can be a bit slow when dealing with large images. Today, let’s talk about how to speed it up using Pillow-SIMD and make it fly! ## What is SIMD? SIMD, or Single Instruction Multiple Data, … Read more
Pillow-SIMD: A Powerful Image Processing Library Hello everyone! Today I want to introduce you to an amazing image processing library – Pillow-SIMD. As a Python developer who often deals with images, I can’t get enough of this library. It is the SIMD-accelerated version of Pillow, like installing a “rocket booster” on regular Pillow, making the … Read more
In a large e-commerce project, we need to process hundreds of thousands of product images daily for scaling, cropping, and format conversion. When using the regular Pillow library, image processing speed became a serious performance bottleneck. Until we discovered Pillow-SIMD, this “magic tool,” which boosted image processing speed by an astonishing 30 times, significantly reducing … Read more
Translated by Python Tribe (python.freelycode.com), unauthorized reproduction is prohibited, sharing is welcome. Pillow-SIMD is a fork of Pillow (which itself is a fork of PIL). To learn more about Pillow, please refer to the relevant documentation and changelog and contribute to its development. Why SIMD? There are many ways to improve image processing performance. You … Read more
Preview “Python Text Portrait Generator” — The Magic Manual to Turn Pixels into “Keep Going” Friends! Are you still struggling with what to write when sharing pictures on social media? Today, the code we are going to work on is a “blessing for the lazy and a savior for the socially anxious” — it can … Read more