diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index afdf774ee..888c414e3 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Notes
 
 * There are no **mandatory** external dependencies. However, some optional feature are available only if additional components are installed:
 
-  * `Pillow <https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/>`_ is required for :meth:`Pixmap.pil_save` and :meth:`Pixmap.pil_tobytes`.
+  * `Pillow <https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/>`_ is required for :meth:`Pixmap.pil`, :meth:`Pixmap.pil_save` and :meth:`Pixmap.pil_tobytes`.
   * `fontTools <https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/>`_ is required for :meth:`Document.subset_fonts`.
   * `pymupdf-fonts <https://pypi.org/project/pymupdf-fonts/>`_ is a collection of nice fonts to be used for text output methods.
   * `Tesseract-OCR <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract>`_ for optical character recognition in images and document pages. Tesseract is separate software, not a Python package. To enable OCR functions in PyMuPDF, the software must be installed and the system environment variable `"TESSDATA_PREFIX"` must be defined and contain the `tessdata` folder name of the Tesseract installation location. See below.
diff --git a/docs/pixmap.rst b/docs/pixmap.rst
index 75251aeec..609338c79 100644
--- a/docs/pixmap.rst
+++ b/docs/pixmap.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Have a look at the :ref:`FAQ` section to see some pixmap usage "at work".
 :meth:`Pixmap.invert_irect`      invert the pixels of a given area
 :meth:`Pixmap.pdfocr_save`       save the pixmap as an OCRed 1-page PDF
 :meth:`Pixmap.pdfocr_tobytes`    save the pixmap as an OCRed 1-page PDF
+:meth:`Pixmap.pil`               get as pillow image
 :meth:`Pixmap.pil_save`          save as image using pillow
 :meth:`Pixmap.pil_tobytes`       write to `bytes` object using pillow
 :meth:`Pixmap.pixel`             return the value of a pixel
@@ -388,7 +389,15 @@ Have a look at the :ref:`FAQ` section to see some pixmap usage "at work".
                doc.save("ocr-images.pdf")
 
 
-   ..  method:: pil_save(*args, unmultiply=False, **kwargs)
+   ..  method:: pil()
+
+      * New in v1.17.3
+
+      Get the pixmap as Pillow image object. The returned image has the same colorspace as the pixmap.
+
+      :raises ImportError: if Pillow is not installed.
+
+   ..  method:: pil_save(*args, **kwargs)
 
       * New in v1.17.3
 
@@ -400,8 +409,6 @@ Have a look at the :ref:`FAQ` section to see some pixmap usage "at work".
 
       A simple example: `pix.pil_save("some.webp", optimize=True, dpi=(150, 150))`.
       
-      :arg bool unmultiply: If the pixmap's colorspace is RGB with transparency, the alpha values may or may not already be multiplied into the color components ref/green/blue (called "premultiplied"). To enforce undoing premultiplication, set this parameter to `True`. To learn about some background, e.g. look for "Premultiplied alpha" `here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_computer_graphics#P>`_.
-
 
       For details on other parameters see the Pillow documentation.
 
@@ -409,7 +416,7 @@ Have a look at the :ref:`FAQ` section to see some pixmap usage "at work".
 
       :raises ImportError: if Pillow is not installed.
 
-   ..  method:: pil_tobytes(*args, unmultiply=False, **kwargs)
+   ..  method:: pil_tobytes(*args, **kwargs)
 
       * New in v1.17.3
 
diff --git a/src/__init__.py b/src/__init__.py
index 39350d1c8..421b158f2 100644
--- a/src/__init__.py
+++ b/src/__init__.py
@@ -10168,12 +10168,8 @@ def pdfocr_tobytes(self, compress=True, language="eng", tessdata=None):
         self.pdfocr_save(bio, compress=compress, language=language, tessdata=tessdata)
         return bio.getvalue()
 
-    def pil_save(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Write to image file using Pillow.
-
-        Args are passed to Pillow's Image.save method, see their documentation.
-        Use instead of save when other output formats are desired.
-        """
+    def pil(self):
+        """Get pixmap as a Pillow image."""
         try:
             from PIL import Image
         except ImportError:
@@ -10190,7 +10186,15 @@ def pil_save(self, *args, **kwargs):
         else:
             mode = "CMYK"
 
-        img = Image.frombytes(mode, (self.width, self.height), self.samples)
+        return Image.frombytes(mode, (self.width, self.height), self.samples)
+
+    def pil_save(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Write to image file using Pillow.
+
+        Args are passed to Pillow's Image.save method, see their documentation.
+        Use instead of save when other output formats are desired.
+        """
+        img = self.pil()
 
         if "dpi" not in kwargs.keys():
             kwargs["dpi"] = (self.xres, self.yres)
diff --git a/tests/test_pixmap.py b/tests/test_pixmap.py
index c456f05fc..7062e0fa2 100644
--- a/tests/test_pixmap.py
+++ b/tests/test_pixmap.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import os
 import platform
 import sys
-import tempfile
 import pytest
 import textwrap
 
@@ -57,7 +56,31 @@ def test_filepixmap():
     assert pix1.digest == pix2.digest
 
 
-def test_pilsave():
+def test_pil(tmpdir):
+    # pixmaps from file then get pillow image
+    # make pixmap from this and confirm equality
+    try:
+        pix1 = pymupdf.Pixmap(imgfile)
+        pix1.pil().save(tmpdir / "foo.png")
+        pix2 = pymupdf.Pixmap(str(tmpdir / "foo.png"))
+        assert repr(pix1) == repr(pix2)
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        assert platform.system() == 'Windows' and sys.maxsize == 2**31 - 1
+
+
+def test_pil_save(tmpdir):
+    # pixmaps from file then save pillow image to temporary file
+    # make pixmap from this and confirm equality
+    try:
+        pix1 = pymupdf.Pixmap(imgfile)
+        pix1.pil_save(tmpdir / "foo.png")
+        pix2 = pymupdf.Pixmap(str(tmpdir / "foo.png"))
+        assert repr(pix1) == repr(pix2)
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        assert platform.system() == 'Windows' and sys.maxsize == 2**31 - 1
+
+
+def test_pil_tobytes():
     # pixmaps from file then save to pillow image
     # make pixmap from this and confirm equality
     try: