Photography Code Recipes eBook (OpenCV + Pillow Projects) is a comprehensive digital guide for photographers and creative coders who want to use Python to enhance, automate, or experiment with images. Instead of theoretical programming explanations, this eBook contains real, practical “recipes” — short, powerful code snippets and project tutorials that solve everyday photo-processing challenges. Perfect for beginners and intermediates wanting to combine photography with programming.

50+ Ready-to-Use Code Recipes

The eBook includes step-by-step solutions for tasks such as:

• Bulk resizing and compression

• Auto-exposure correction

• Smart sharpening and clarity enhancement

• AI-powered background removal

• Color grading transformations

• Lens correction filters

• Noise reduction pipelines

• Histogram and metadata analysis

• Image comparison and duplicate detection

• Watermark automation

Each recipe is immediately usable and customizable.

Beginner-Friendly Explanations

Every code example includes:

• What the script does

• How it works

• Line-by-line comments

• Required libraries (OpenCV, Pillow, NumPy)

• Example output previews

• Tips for improving or extending the code

No prior programming experience is required.

Creative Photo Effects Included

The book also covers fun, artistic effects such as:

• Film-style grain simulation

• Vintage color palettes

• Cartoon & sketch filters

• Cinematic glow effects

• Gradient maps and LUT-like tones

• Split-toning with code

Great for experimenting and developing your own editing tools.

Hands-On Mini Projects

Readers get guided projects like:

• Building a mini Lightroom-style editor

• Creating a batch portrait enhancer

• Developing a travel photo stylizer

• Building an image sorter using metadata

• Detecting faces and applying retouch filters

These projects help you apply what you learn in real workflows.

Why Creators Love It

• Makes coding fun and visual

• Useful for automating workflow tasks

• Great for photographers exploring tech

• Perfect handbook for future plugin developers

• Improves both creative and technical skills

Photography Code Recipes eBook makes it simple to start coding powerful and creative photo-processing tools — even with zero programming background.