Pillow: a modern fork of PIL

Pillow is the “friendly” PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors.

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Pillow >= 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3.

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Pillow < 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.

For full compatibility, you’ll want to read the complete installation instructions.

If you can’t find the information you need, try the old PIL Handbook, but be aware that it was last updated for PIL 1.1.5. You can download archives and old versions from PyPI. You can get the source and contribute at https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow.

Support Pillow!

PIL needs you! Please help us maintain the Python Imaging Library here:

Financial

Pillow is a volunteer effort led by Alex Clark. If you can’t help with development, please help us financially; your assistance is very much needed and appreciated!

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Contributors: please add your name and donation preference here.

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Alex Clark (fork author) http://gittip.com/aclark4life

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Need help?

You can seek realtime assistance via IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net#pil. You can also post to the Image-SIG mailing list. And, of course, there's Stack Overflow.

If you've discovered a bug, you can open an issue on Github.




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