The Ultimate Handbook for OpenCV & Pillow

Introduction

OpenCV and Pillow are the commonly used libraries in Python for image processing.

In this article, I will list out all the codes that are useful regarding OpenCV and Pillow side by side, so that you can compare them easily.

New Version

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Updates

• 15-Jun-22: Added [13. RGBA to RGB].
• 16-Jul-22: Added “specify background color” to [6. Rotate].
• 28-Jan-23: Updated Image.ANTIALIAS to Image.Resampling.LANCZOS [5. Resize].
• 29-Jan-23: Updated np.float to np.float32; Image.PERSPECTIVE to Image.Transform.PERSPECTIVE; Image.BICUBIC to Image.Resampling.BICUBIC [10. Warp / Transform].

0. Install & Import

To install Pillow and OpenCV, please type the following in your terminal (replace pip with pip3 if your python3 is using pip3):

pip install numpy
pip install opencv-python
pip install Pillow

Before using them, you have to import them into your python file with the following codes: