How to show PIL images on the screen

Question

I am doing some image editing with the PIL libary  The point is  that I don t want to save the image each time on my HDD to view it in Explorer  Is there a small module that simply enables me to set up a window and display the image

User · Accepted Answer

From near the beginning of the PIL Tutorial:

Once you have an instance of the Image class, you can use the methods defined by this class to process and manipulate the image. For example, let's display the image we just loaded:

>>> im.show()

Update:

Nowadays theImage.show() method is formally documented in the Pillow fork of PIL along with an explanation of how it's implemented on different OSs.

User · Answer

Maybe you can use matplotlib for this  you can also plot normal images with it  If you call show   the image pops up in a window  Take a look at this   http   matplotlib org users image tutorial html

User · Answer

I tested this and it works fine for me    from PIL import Image im   Image open  image jpg   im show

User · Answer

You can display an image in your own window using Tkinter  w o depending on image viewers installed in your system   import Tkinter as tk from PIL import Image  ImageTk    Place this at the end  to avoid any conflicts errors   window   tk Tk    window geometry  500x500      optional      imagefile    path to your image file  img   ImageTk PhotoImage Image open imagefile   lbl   tk Label window  image   img  pack   window mainloop     For Python 3  replace import Tkinter as tk with import tkinter as tk

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If you find that PIL has problems on some platforms  using a native image viewer may help   img save  tmp png    Save the image to a PNG file called tmp png    For MacOS   import os os system  open tmp png    Will open in Preview    For most GNU Linux systems with X Org and a desktop environment   import os os system  xdg-open tmp png     For Windows   import os os system  powershell -c tmp png

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