at last: Secret Labs now offer "official" PIL builds for Windows. The binary kit is based on 1.1.1, and includes JPEG and PNG support, optional Tkinter support, and a patch for PNG transparency support: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil Binary kits are available for Python 1.5.2, Python 2.0, and Python 2.1a2 (experimental). The Tkinter binding requires Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 for the 1.5.2 versions, and 8.3.2 for the 2.X versions. The patched PNG driver can be downloaded separately from http://effbot.org. enjoy, the pythonware team "Secret Labs -- makers of fine pythonware since 1997."