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I have searched this up on the internet however all of the results included answers where you use Image.open("somefile.py"), however, I was unable to find how to maintain the aspect ratio and scale down the image when using ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open("somefile.py")) together with the GUI library, Tkinter.

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    Does this answer your question? [How do I resize an image using PIL and maintain its aspect ratio?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/273946/how-do-i-resize-an-image-using-pil-and-maintain-its-aspect-ratio) – TheLizzard Mar 05 '21 at 17:35
  • Also `ImageTk` just converts the image so that it can be used by tkinter. It doesn't change its size. – TheLizzard Mar 05 '21 at 17:36

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You want the thumbnail() method:

from PIL import Image

# Open the image
im = Image.open('SomeFile.png')

# Create reduced version whilst maintaining aspect ratio
im.thumbnail((newWidth,newHeight))

# Make ImageTk.PhotoImage from resized image
tkPI = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)
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