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Adjusting Image Brightness with Python and Pillow

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Mike Driscoll
Jul 21, 2026
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If you have been following this newsletter, you will recall learning about changing an image's contrast and adjusting its color balance with Python. Today you will tackle the subject of image brightness!

Image brightness is a way to measure the intensity or luminosity of an image after it has been captured. Pillow’s ImageEnhance module allows you to modi…

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