Convert between a PIL Image and a numpy array

Alternatively, to get a numpy array from an image use:

from PIL import Image
from numpy import array
img = Image.open("input.png")
arr = array(img)

And to get an image from a numpy array, use:

img = Image.fromarray(arr)
img.save("output.png")

 sample:

from PIL import Image
import numpy
im = Image.open("sample2.png")
np_im = numpy.array(im)
print np_im.shape
OUTPUT
(200, 400, 3)
np_im = np_im - 18
new_im = Image.fromarray(np_im)
new_im.save("numpy_altered_sample2.png")

im = Image.open("sample2.png")