Image processing in python using openCV

Anirudh Diwan
2 min readJun 9, 2021

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First of all we need to install opencv-python library

Install this with the help of pip command

pip install opencv-python

Some basic functions we need to know before creating image are

img=cv2.imread(“path”)-For reading the image, use the imread() method of the cv2 module.

cv2.imshow(‘name’,variable_name)-This command is used to show the image.

cv2.waitKey()-The waitKey() function take the time as an arguement in millisecond as a delay for a windows to close.

cv2.destroyAllWindows()-On pressing any key on keyboard it closes the image window.

img.shape-This function displays the size of the image.

cut_image-img[x1:x2,y1:y2]-We can crop the image using this function.

  1. )CREATING AN IMAGE USING PYTHON CODE

Normally in opencv the order of colours are reverse.

BGR-COLOUR ORDER

0- less than 255 range gives black or grey colour so for black image we took numpy. Zeros( )

2.)How to take two image and crop some part of image and swap it

3.)Take 2 image and combine it to form single image

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