In this post we will be creating a Python script that will flip an existing image horizontally, to do this we will be using the Python Imaging Library also known as PIL enabling us to image processing capabilities.
See the sample of Python code where we utilise the PIL library to horizontally flip an image and save it as a new file. To help us achieve this we utilize the ‘img.transpose()’ method returns a flipped or rotated version of the original image.
from PIL import Image
img=Image.open('image.png')
img = img.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)
img.save('flipped_image.png')See below our image before the horizontal flip.
See below our image flipped horizontally.
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