Images are stored as files on the disk, so reading and writing images from the files are disk I/O operations. These can be done using many ways using different libraries; some of them are shown in this section. Let us first start by importing all of the required packages:
# for inline image display inside notebook# % matplotlib inline import numpy as npfrom PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDrawfrom PIL.ImageChops import add, subtract, multiply, difference, screenimport PIL.ImageStat as statfrom skimage.io import imread, imsave, imshow, show, imread_collection, imshow_collectionfrom skimage import color, viewer, exposure, img_as_float, datafrom skimage.transform import SimilarityTransform, warp, swirlfrom ...
