.. currentmodule:: sdl2.ext
The :mod:`sdl2.ext.image` module provides some simple functions for importing images as SDL surfaces and exporting SDL surfaces to image files.
The basic functions :func:`load_bmp` and :func:`save_bmp` load and save BMP
files, and are guaranteed to be available on all systems supported by PySDL2.
The :func:`load_img` function can be used to import additional image formats
(e.g. JPEG, PNG), but requires that the SDL_image library is installed on
the target system (can be installed as a Python dependency with pysdl2-dll
on platforms that support it).
In addition to importing images from files, this module also provides the :func:`pillow_to_surface` function for converting :obj:`Image` objects from the Pillow Python library to SDL surfaces.
.. automodule:: sdl2.ext.image :members: