from PIL import Image background = Image.open("split/page1.png") #rescaling the logo basewidth = (background.size[0]) baseheight = (background.size[1]) finalcover = Image.open("cover.png") wpercent = (basewidth/float(finalcover.size[0])) hsize = int((float(finalcover.size[1])*float(wpercent))) finalcover = finalcover.resize((basewidth,hsize), Image.ANTIALIAS) finalcover.save("cover_rescale.png") foreground = Image.open("cover_rescale.png") foregroundheight = (foreground.size[1]) background.paste(foreground, (0, (baseheight-foregroundheight)), foreground.convert('RGBA')) background.save("split/page1.png")