TRUE = 1
FALSE = 0

root=tk.Tk()

kimage_width = 512
kimage_height = 512
kimgSize = (kimage_width,kimage_height)

# Make a color 256K pixel photo of 'stuff', in bytes
# The image data is in RGBX order

ColorImage=b''

for i in range (0,int(kimage_width * kimage_height/8)):
    ColorImage+=bytes([(i>>2) & 0xFF]) # Red
    ColorImage+=bytes([(i>>7) & 0xFF]) # Green
    ColorImage+=bytes([(i>>6) & 0xFF]) # Blue
    ColorImage+=bytes([(i>>0) & 0xFF]) # Not used

# copy it 8 times

ColorImage+=ColorImage+ColorImage+ColorImage # 4
ColorImage+=ColorImage # total = 8 copies

# make a PIL image?

kimage = Image.frombytes('RGBX', kimgSize, ColorImage, 'raw')

kimage.show() # Display image

#######photo = base64.b64encode(ColorImage) # Crash - makes a zombie

b=tk.Button(root,justify = tk.LEFT)
b.config(image=kimage, width="512", height="512")
b.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
root.mainloop()