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Doromi
Doromi

Reputation: 173

Python: How to resize an image using PIL module

I'm trying to resize an image to 500x500px but got this error: 

File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1681, in save
     save_handler = SAVE[format.upper()] KeyError: 'JPG'

This is the code: 

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('car.jpg')
new_img = img.resize((500,500))
new_img.save('car_resized','jpg')

Upvotes: 17

Views: 39156

Answers (2)

Om Sao
Om Sao

Reputation: 7643

Here is the solution: 

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('car.jpg')
new_img = img.resize((500,500), Image.ANTIALIAS)
quality_val = 90 ##you can vary it considering the tradeoff for quality vs performance
new_img.save("car_resized.jpg", "JPEG", quality=quality_val)

There are list of resampling techniques in PIL like ANTIALIAS, BICUBIC, BILINEAR and CUBIC. ANTIALIAS is considered best for scaling down.

Upvotes: 7

AlanK
AlanK

Reputation: 9823

You need to set the format parameter in your call to the save function to 'JPEG':

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('car.jpg')
new_img = img.resize((500,500))
new_img.save("car_resized.jpg", "JPEG", optimize=True)

Upvotes: 31

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