Devlog 2!

Ran into my first real problem today, the SimpleImage library I started with wasn’t giving me direct pixel access the way I needed. Switched to Pillow and it made things a lot easier. getpixel() and putpixel() are what I needed.
Writing the encoder felt satisfying. You loop through every pixel, overwrite the Red channel with your character’s ASCII value, move to the next pixel, repeat. It sounds almost too simple but it works and the encoded image looks identical to the original.
Added a safety check too: if your message is longer than the image has pixels, it’ll tell you instead of crashing silently.