There’s plenty of image editing software out there, most notably Photoshop - but did you know you can also edit images using Python? While Pillow, the Python library used in this tutorial, won’t replace Photoshop, it does help you to perform certain actions faster - and completely free. In this introductory tutorial I’ll show you how to convert image format using Pillow library. You can then build on that knowledge to progress to the more advanced concepts, such as Image filters.

Merge PDFs Using Python Working with PDF files can a pain…but it doesn’t have to be. You don’t even need any expensive software to handle PDFs: just a few lines of Python code will suffice. In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to easily merge multiple files without having to tinker in the Adobe Acrobat or a similar program, simply taking advantage of the capabilities of the PyPDF2 library. This method is much quicker and cheaper and all the tools used here are free.