ImageDraw Module

The ImageDraw module provide simple 2D graphics forImage objects. You can use this module to create newimages, annotate or retouch existing images, and to generate graphics on thefly for web use.

For a more advanced drawing library for PIL, see the aggdraw module.

Example: Draw a gray cross over an image

  1. from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
  2.  
  3. im = Image.open("lena.pgm")
  4.  
  5. draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
  6. draw.line((0, 0) + im.size, fill=128)
  7. draw.line((0, im.size[1], im.size[0], 0), fill=128)
  8. del draw
  9.  
  10. # write to stdout
  11. im.save(sys.stdout, "PNG")

Concepts

Coordinates

The graphics interface uses the same coordinate system as PIL itself, with (0,0) in the upper left corner.

Colors

To specify colors, you can use numbers or tuples just as you would use withPIL.Image.Image.new() or PIL.Image.Image.putpixel(). For “1”,“L”, and “I” images, use integers. For “RGB” images, use a 3-tuple containinginteger values. For “F” images, use integer or floating point values.

For palette images (mode “P”), use integers as color indexes. In 1.1.4 andlater, you can also use RGB 3-tuples or color names (see below). The drawinglayer will automatically assign color indexes, as long as you don’t draw withmore than 256 colors.

Color Names

See Color Names for the color names supported by Pillow.

Fonts

PIL can use bitmap fonts or OpenType/TrueType fonts.

Bitmap fonts are stored in PIL’s own format, where each font typically consistsof a two files, one named .pil and the other usually named .pbm. The formercontains font metrics, the latter raster data.

To load a bitmap font, use the load functions in the ImageFontmodule.

To load a OpenType/TrueType font, use the truetype function in theImageFont module. Note that this function depends on third-partylibraries, and may not available in all PIL builds.

Example: Draw Partial Opacity Text

  1. from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
  2. # get an image
  3. base = Image.open('Pillow/Tests/images/lena.png').convert('RGBA')
  4.  
  5. # make a blank image for the text, initialized to transparent text color
  6. txt = Image.new('RGBA', base.size, (255,255,255,0))
  7.  
  8. # get a font
  9. fnt = ImageFont.truetype('Pillow/Tests/fonts/FreeMono.ttf', 40)
  10. # get a drawing context
  11. d = ImageDraw.Draw(txt)
  12.  
  13. # draw text, half opacity
  14. d.text((10,10), "Hello", font=fnt, fill=(255,255,255,128))
  15. # draw text, full opacity
  16. d.text((10,60), "World", font=fnt, fill=(255,255,255,255))
  17.  
  18. out = Image.alpha_composite(base, txt)
  19.  
  20. out.show()

Functions

  • class PIL.ImageDraw.Draw(im, mode=None)
  • Creates an object that can be used to draw in the given image.

Note that the image will be modified in place.

参数:

  • im – The image to draw in.
  • mode – Optional mode to use for color values. For RGBimages, this argument can be RGB or RGBA (to blend thedrawing into the image). For all other modes, this argumentmust be the same as the image mode. If omitted, the modedefaults to the mode of the image.

Methods

  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.arc(xy, start, end, fill=None)
  • Draws an arc (a portion of a circle outline) between the start and endangles, inside the given bounding box.

参数:

  • xy – Four points to define the bounding box. Sequence of[(x0, y0), (x1, y1)] or [x0, y0, x1, y1].
  • start – Starting angle, in degrees. Angles are measured from3 o’clock, increasing clockwise.
  • end – Ending angle, in degrees.
  • fill – Color to use for the arc.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.bitmap(xy, bitmap, fill=None)
  • Draws a bitmap (mask) at the given position, using the current fill colorfor the non-zero portions. The bitmap should be a valid transparency mask(mode “1”) or matte (mode “L” or “RGBA”).

This is equivalent to doing image.paste(xy, color, bitmap).

To paste pixel data into an image, use thepaste() method on the image itself.

  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.chord(xy, start, end, fill=None, outline=None)
  • Same as arc(), but connects the end pointswith a straight line.

参数:

  • xy – Four points to define the bounding box. Sequence of[(x0, y0), (x1, y1)] or [x0, y0, x1, y1].
  • outline – Color to use for the outline.
  • fill – Color to use for the fill.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.ellipse(xy, fill=None, outline=None)
  • Draws an ellipse inside the given bounding box.

参数:

  • xy – Four points to define the bounding box. Sequence of either[(x0, y0), (x1, y1)] or [x0, y0, x1, y1].
  • outline – Color to use for the outline.
  • fill – Color to use for the fill.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.line(xy, fill=None, width=0)
  • Draws a line between the coordinates in the xy list.

参数:

  • xy – Sequence of either 2-tuples like [(x, y), (x, y), …] ornumeric values like [x, y, x, y, …].
  • fill – Color to use for the line.
  • width
    The line width, in pixels. Note that linejoins are not handled well, so wide polylines will not look good.

1.1.5 新版功能.

注解

This option was broken until version 1.1.6.

  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.pieslice(xy, start, end, fill=None, outline=None)
  • Same as arc, but also draws straight lines between the end points and thecenter of the bounding box.

参数:

  • xy – Four points to define the bounding box. Sequence of[(x0, y0), (x1, y1)] or [x0, y0, x1, y1].
  • start – Starting angle, in degrees. Angles are measured from3 o’clock, increasing clockwise.
  • end – Ending angle, in degrees.
  • fill – Color to use for the fill.
  • outline – Color to use for the outline.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.point(xy, fill=None)
  • Draws points (individual pixels) at the given coordinates.

参数:

  • xy – Sequence of either 2-tuples like [(x, y), (x, y), …] ornumeric values like [x, y, x, y, …].
  • fill – Color to use for the point.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.polygon(xy, fill=None, outline=None)
  • Draws a polygon.

The polygon outline consists of straight lines between the givencoordinates, plus a straight line between the last and the firstcoordinate.

参数:

  • xy – Sequence of either 2-tuples like [(x, y), (x, y), …] ornumeric values like [x, y, x, y, …].
  • outline – Color to use for the outline.
  • fill – Color to use for the fill.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.rectangle(xy, fill=None, outline=None)
  • Draws a rectangle.

参数:

  • xy – Four points to define the bounding box. Sequence of either[(x0, y0), (x1, y1)] or [x0, y0, x1, y1]. The second pointis just outside the drawn rectangle.
  • outline – Color to use for the outline.
  • fill – Color to use for the fill.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.shape(shape, fill=None, outline=None)

警告

This method is experimental.

Draw a shape.

  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.text(xy, text, fill=None, font=None, anchor=None, spacing=0, align="left")
  • Draws the string at the given position.

参数:

  • xy – Top left corner of the text.
  • text – Text to be drawn. If it contains any newline characters,the text is passed on to multiline_text()
  • fill – Color to use for the text.
  • font – An ImageFont instance.
  • spacing – If the text is passed on to multiline_text(),the number of pixels between lines.
  • align – If the text is passed on to multiline_text(),“left”, “center” or “right”.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.multilinetext(_xy, text, fill=None, font=None, anchor=None, spacing=0, align="left")
  • Draws the string at the given position.

参数:

  • xy – Top left corner of the text.
  • text – Text to be drawn.
  • fill – Color to use for the text.
  • font – An ImageFont instance.
  • spacing – The number of pixels between lines.
  • align – “left”, “center” or “right”.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.textsize(text, font=None, spacing=0)
  • Return the size of the given string, in pixels.

参数:

  • text – Text to be measured. If it contains any newline characters,the text is passed on to multiline_textsize()
  • font – An ImageFont instance.
  • spacing – If the text is passed on to multiline_textsize(),the number of pixels between lines.
  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.multilinetextsize(_text, font=None, spacing=0)
  • Return the size of the given string, in pixels.

参数:

  • text – Text to be measured.
  • font – An ImageFont instance.
  • spacing – The number of pixels between lines.

Legacy API

The Draw class contains a constructor and a numberof methods which are provided for backwards compatibility only. For this towork properly, you should either use options on the drawing primitives, orthese methods. Do not mix the old and new calling conventions.

  • PIL.ImageDraw.ImageDraw(image)

返回类型:Draw

  • PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.setfont(font)

1.1.5 版后已移除.

Sets the default font to use for the text method.

参数:font – An ImageFont instance.