Question: What are some of the better libraries for image generation in Python? If I were to implement a GOTCHA (for example's sake), thereby having to manipulate an image on the pixel level, what would my options be? Ideally I would like to save resulting image as a low-resolution jpeg, but this is mere wishing, I'll settle for any common image format.

Thank you for your attention.

Answer: 
[Pillow](http://pillow.readthedocs.org/) is a fork of PIL that is still actively developed. While PIL is not dead it has been a number of years since the last release.
If you should generate text or other vector based images (and then save to .png or .jpg), you could also consider Cairo (PyCairo, in this case). I use it a lot.
Otherwise, for pixel-level manipulation, PIL is the obvious choice.