import time import concurrent.futures from PIL import Image, ImageFilter img_names = [ 'photo-1516117172878-fd2c41f4a759.jpg', 'photo-1532009324734-20a7a5813719.jpg', 'photo-1524429656589-6633a470097c.jpg', 'photo-1530224264768-7ff8c1789d79.jpg', 'photo-1564135624576-c5c88640f235.jpg', 'photo-1541698444083-023c97d3f4b6.jpg', 'photo-1522364723953-452d3431c267.jpg', 'photo-1513938709626-033611b8cc03.jpg', 'photo-1507143550189-fed454f93097.jpg', 'photo-1493976040374-85c8e12f0c0e.jpg', 'photo-1504198453319-5ce911bafcde.jpg', 'photo-1530122037265-a5f1f91d3b99.jpg', 'photo-1516972810927-80185027ca84.jpg', 'photo-1550439062-609e1531270e.jpg', 'photo-1549692520-acc6669e2f0c.jpg' ] t1 = time.perf_counter() size = (1200, 1200) def process_image(img_name): img = Image.open(img_name) img = img.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(15)) img.thumbnail(size) img.save(f'processed/{img_name}') print(f'{img_name} was processed...') with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor: executor.map(process_image, img_names) t2 = time.perf_counter() print(f'Finished in {t2-t1} seconds')