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Refer to official Pillow documentation instead of outdated release README; installation instructions were relocated from ``README.rst`` to docs/ sometime after 2.8.1 was released. And docs have been hosted on RTD for quite some time.
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Image Manipulation
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.. todo::
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Add introduction about image manipulation and its Python libraries.
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Python Imaging Library
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The `Python Imaging Library <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>`_, or PIL
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for short, is *the* library for image manipulation in Python. Unfortunately,
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its development has stagnated, with its last release in 2009.
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Luckily for you, there's an actively-developed fork of PIL called
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`Pillow <http://python-pillow.github.io/>`_ - it's easier to install, runs on
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all operating systems, and supports Python 3.
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Installation
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Before installing Pillow, you'll have to install Pillow's prerequisites. Find
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the instructions for your platform
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`here <http://pillow.readthedocs.org/installation.html>`_.
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After that, it's straightforward:
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.. code-block:: console
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$ pip install Pillow
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