4 Photo book: Show off your pics

 

This chapter covers

  • Pulling names of files into Python
  • Creating a list
  • Displaying images in a Photo book GUI
  • Using buttons to change the image

The year 2016 was a significant year, do you know why? The number of photos taken in 2016 exceeded the total amount of photos ever taken in the history of taking photos! Just let that sink in for a moment. More photos were taken in 2016 than in the whole time between 1830 (when the first official photograph was taken) and 2015, a period of 185 years! (The Online Photographer)

Photos and fake news

Taking photos has become an everyday feature of our lives, even to the point where some people say, “if you didn’t take a picture of it, it never happened!” This has led to a rise in fake news where images are manipulated or used out of context to make the reader believe that something happened, or never happened, or happened in a different way to how it really happened!

The data around photos is interesting. Here are some facts from Photutorial.com (https://photutorial.com/photos-statistics/)

  1. In 2021 1.2 trillion photos were taken worldwide.
  2. In 2022 1.72 trillion photos were taken worldwide. The number keeps growing.
  3. That roughly equates to 54,541 photos taken every second, or 4.7 billion per day.
  4. It is estimated that by 2030, 2.3 trillion photos will be taken every year.

Creating the project

Downloading the images

Storing your image files

Importing the Modules

Creating the variables

Creating the functions

Building the main app

Running and testing your GUI program

Three other things to try

Adding more image file types

Changing the background color of the buttons

Printing your photo

Statements of fact

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