Python | Crop image using pillow

In this article, we will learn to crop an image using pillow library. Cropping an image means to select a rectangular region inside an image and removing everything outside the rectangle. To crop an image we make use of crop() method on image objects.

Syntax : IMG.crop(box_tuple)

Parameters :
Image_path- Location of the image
IMG- Image to crop
box_tuple- [left, up, right, bottom] of the image to crop

Returns : An Image object which represents the cropped image.

Example 1:

# import Image module
from PIL import Image

# open the image
Image1 = Image.open('D:/cat.jpg')

# crop the image
croppedIm = Image1.crop((130, 120, 200, 200))

# show the image
croppedIm.show()

Input Image :

Output :

Example 2:

# import Image module
from PIL import Image

# open the image
Image1 = Image.open('D:/cat.jpg')

# crop the image
croppedIm = Image1.crop((130, 50, 250, 150))

# show the image
croppedIm.show()

Input Image :

Output :