from PIL import Image,ImageFilter
im_og = Image.open(«original.jpg»)
width, height = im_og.size
im_bw = im_og.convert(«L»)
im_cont = im_bw.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(15))
im_final = Image.blend(im_og, im_cont, 0.5) # blend the original and processed image
im_final.save(«tuned.jpg»)