How to show PIL Image in ipython notebook

Question

This is my code

from PIL import Image
pil_im = Image.open(\'data/empire.jpg\')

I would like to do some image manipulation on it, and then s

Answer 1

You can use IPython's Module: display to load the image. You can read more from the Doc.

from IPython.display import Image 
pil_img = Image(filename='data/empire.jpg')
display(pil_img)

updated

As OP's requirement is to use PIL, if you want to show inline image, you can use matplotlib.pyplot.imshow with numpy.asarray like this too:

from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

%matplotlib inline
pil_im = Image.open('data/empire.jpg', 'r')
imshow(np.asarray(pil_im))

If you only require a preview rather than an inline, you may just use show like this:

pil_im = Image.open('data/empire.jpg', 'r')
pil_im.show()

Answer 2

In order to simply visualize the image in a notebook you can use display()

%matplotlib inline
from PIL import Image

im = Image.open(im_path)
display(im)

Answer 3

Use IPython display to render PIL images in a notebook.

from PIL import Image               # to load images
from IPython.display import display # to display images

pil_im = Image.open('path/to/image.jpg')
display(pil_im)

Answer 4

You can open an image using the Image class from the package PIL and display it with plt.imshow directly.

# First import libraries.
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# The folliwing line is useful in Jupyter notebook
%matplotlib inline

# Open your file image using the path
img = Image.open(<path_to_image>)

# Since plt knows how to handle instance of the Image class, just input your loaded image to imshow method
plt.imshow(img)

Answer 5

If you are using the pylab extension, you could convert the image to a numpy array and use matplotlib's imshow.

%pylab # only if not started with the --pylab option
imshow(array(pil_im))

EDIT: As mentioned in the comments, the pylab module is deprecated, so use the matplotlib magic instead and import the function explicitly:

%matplotlib
from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow 
imshow(array(pil_im))

Answer 6

Based on other answers and my tries, best experience would be first installing, pillow and scipy, then using the following starting code on your jupyter notebook:

%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow
from scipy.misc import imread

imshow(imread('image.jpg', 1))