January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
4h 27m
English
We already used the App Engine Images service to serve images through Google's CDN, but there's a lot more it can do. It can resize, rotate, flip, crop images, and composite multiple images into a single file. It can enhance pictures using a predefined algorithm. It can convert an image from and to several formats. The service can also provide information about an image, such as its format, width, height, and a histogram of color values.
To use the Images service on the local development server, we need to download and install the Python Imaging Library (PIL) package or, alternatively, the pillow package.
We can pass the image data to the service directly from our application or specifying a resource ...
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