What preceded it I like the Carbon images that appear on Twitter from Pybites. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the code on GitHub, but it was pretty overwhelming and intimidating, so I quickly moved on to something I did “understand.” I often follow a tutorial or collect items I might need one… Continue reading What I have learned from an open-source project
Articles on images
Code Challenge 63 – Automatically Generate Blog Featured Images
By PyBites Team on 2 September 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this new blog code challenge you are going to use selenium to automatically generate some cool featured images for PyBites. Have fun!
Watermarking photos? “I can do that in Python!”
By Anthony Lister on 24 June 2019
My wife is setting up a business from home and wanted to protect photos of her work submitted to social media sites and the web in general. “I can do that using Python!”, I exclaimed, thinking I had seen a tutorial showing how ages ago. Laptop open, I set to work and found my bookmarked tutorial. It was using OpenCV2 and even after ~70 odd days of my #100DaysOfCode journey, I didn’t really understand it well enough to configure it myself if I had to make changes. (OpenCV is on my list of things to do after my #100Days). I remembered reading about Pillow, or PIL as it is sometimes known, and started to read the docs for it. Challenge to myself accepted!
Twitter Digest 2018 Week 11
By PyBites Team on 11 March 2018
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Fully Automate Login and Banner Generation with Selenium, Requests and Click
By Bob Belderbos on 20 August 2017
In part 3 of the PyBites Banner Generator article series I show you how to automatically generate a banner with Requests and Selenium.
Making a Banner Generator With Pillow and Flask
By Bob Belderbos on 19 August 2017
In this article I will take last week’s banner.py Pillow script and integrate it into a Flask app.
Code Challenge 31 – Image Manipulation With Pillow – Review
By PyBites Team on 14 August 2017
In this article we review last week’s Image Manipulation With Pillow code challenge. Some nice submissions to share …
Using Pillow to Create Nice Banners For Your Site
By Bob Belderbos on 11 August 2017
Running your site or business good chance you A. use promo material like banners and B. you make them manually with Photoshop, Gimp or what not. And yes for anything beyond the basics you probably need those programs. But what if you like to keep it simple and want to semi-automate things? Just an image and text on canvas? Enter Pillow – The friendly PIL fork, which makes this pretty easy. Come explore some of its capabilities with me in this article.
Code Challenge 31 – Image Manipulation With Pillow
By PyBites Team on 8 August 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding. Let’s shift gears a little bit: this week we have you choose an image manipulation task using Pillow, “the friendly PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork”. Have fun!