How to resize images to certain size in Python PIL without distortion?

Question

I'm trying to crop images to 1000, 1000 using PIL in Python.

However, it always stretches the image to match the dimensions rather than cropping. Current code below.

Preferably, I would like to crop the original images evenly on the right and left while extending or reducing the height to 1000.

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('image.jpg')
new_img = img.resize((1000,1000))
new_img.save("image.jpg", "JPEG", optimize=True)
new_img.show()

Answer 1

You can use the image.crop method to crop the sides, followed by a image.resize to extend or reduce the height to 1000:

(width, height) = img.size
left = int((width - 1000)/2)
right = left + 1000
new_img = img.crop((left, 0, right, height))
new_img = new_img.resize((1000,1000))

Answer 2

In the python you can use the resize image with PILL library in this you want to import the PILL module

from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("images/cat.jpg")
im.show()
resized_im = im.resize((round(im.size[0]*0.5), round(im.size[1]*0.5)))
resized_im.show()
resized_im.save('resizedBeach1.jpg')