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Python Multimedia

By : Ninad Sathaye
Book Image

Python Multimedia

By: Ninad Sathaye

Overview of this book

Multimedia applications are used by a range of industries to enhance the visual appeal of a product. This book will teach the reader how to perform multimedia processing using Python. This step-by-step guide gives you hands-on experience for developing exciting multimedia applications using Python. This book will help you to build applications for processing images, creating 2D animations and processing audio and video. Writing applications that work with images, videos, and other sensory effects is great. Not every application gets to make full use of audio/visual effects, but a certain amount of multimedia makes any application a lot more appealing. There are numerous multimedia libraries for which Python bindings are available. These libraries enable working with different kinds of media, such as images, audio, video, games, and so on. This book introduces the reader to the most widely used open source libraries through several exciting, real world projects. Popular multimedia frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer,Pyglet, QT Phonon, and Python Imaging library are used to develop various multimedia applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Python Multimedia Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Basic image manipulations


Now that we know how to open and save images, let's learn some basic techniques to manipulate images. PIL supports a variety of geometric manipulation operations, such as resizing an image, rotating it by an angle, flipping it top to bottom or left to right, and so on. It also facilitates operations such as cropping, cutting and pasting pieces of images, and so on.

Resizing

Changing the dimensions of an image is one of the most frequently used image manipulation operations. The image resizing is accomplished using Image.resize in PIL. The following line of code explains how it is achieved.

foo = img.resize(size, filter)

Here, img is an image (an instance of class Image) and the result of resizing operation is stored in foo (another instance of class Image). The size argument is a tuple (width, height). Note that the size is specified in pixels. Thus, resizing the image means modifying the number of pixels in the image. This is also known as image re-sampling. The Image...