Installing PIL/Pillow/cImage for Python on Windows and Mac

What is Python?

Python is a widely-used programming language used in many of the computer science classes here at St. Olaf.

What is PIL/Pillow?

PIL (Python Imaging Library) adds many image processing features to Python. Pillow is a fork of PIL that adds some user-friendly features.

What is cImage?

cImage.py is a Python module used for image processing.

Installing Python, PIL/Pillow, and cImage.py

Windows

• Install Python 2.7.8 (64-bit — this is important)
  • https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.8/python-2.7.8.amd64.msi
• Install Python 3.4.1 (64-bit — this is important)
  • https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.1/python-3.4.1.amd64.msi
• Download and install Pillow for Python 2
  • https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/P/Pillow/Pillow-2.5.3.win-amd64-py2.7.exe#md5=33c3a581ff1538b4f79b4651084090c8
• Download and install Pillow for Python 3
  • https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.4/P/Pillow/Pillow-2.5.3.win-amd64-py3.4.exe#md5=6ee659d7b945e826a07c53c15578424f (direct link)
    • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/ (all other versions)
• Download and install cImage
  • Download cImage.py from Github
    • Navigate to https://github.com/bnmnetp/cImage
    • Click cImage.py, and click the button labeled Raw to see the contents of the file.
    • Click File > Save Page As (Chrome & Firefox) or File > Save As (Safari) to save the file on your computer.
    • Copy “cImage.py” from where you saved it to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages and C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\

Mac

• Install Python 3.4.1 (Python 2.7 is already installed by default)
  • https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.1/python-3.4.1-macosx10.6.dmg
• Download Xcode from the Mac App Store
• Navigate to Xcode > Preferences > Downloads tab
• Click the button to install the Command Line Tools
• Open Terminal (Applications/Terminal) and run:
  • xcode-select –install (You will be prompted to install the Xcode Command Line Tools)
  • sudo easy_install pip
  • sudo pip install pillow
  • pip3.4 install pillow
• Download and install cImage
  • Download cimage.py
    • Navigate to https://github.com/bnmnetp/cImage
    • Click cImage.py, and click the button labeled Raw to see the contents of the file.
    • Click File->Save Page As (Chrome & Firefox) or File->Save As (Safari) to save the file on your computer.
    • Copy “cImage.py” from where you saved it to Macintosh HD/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
    • Copy “cImage.py” from where you saved it to Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/