CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

saving to PIL image to s3

from PIL import Image
import io

def modify_image(image, format):
    pil_image = Image.open(image)

    # Prints out (1280, 960) 
    print(pil_image.size)

    in_mem_file = io.BytesIO()

    # format here would be something like "JPEG". See below link for more info.
    pil_image.save(in_mem_file, format=format)
    return in_mem_file.getvalue()