In a similar vein, I recently discovered Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/ http://dahlia.kr/wand/) which is a gorgeous API built on top of ImageMagick. It's a lot m

In a similar vein, I recently discovered Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/ http://dahlia.kr/wand/) which is a gorgeous API built on top of ImageMagick. It's a lot more limited in functionality than what PIL offers, but for common operations like scaling, cropping, or extracting EXIF data it's much nicer to work with.