ImageMagick is a cool toolkit; not only it’s a complete set of command-line applications, ported to Windows, Mac and Linux, supporting hundreds of different image formats, it’s also a C++ library that you can use in your own applications!
On Mac OS X, I installed it via MacPorts using the all-time classic:
sudo port install ImageMagickThen I created a C++ command-line application with Xcode, set the header and library paths in the target properties (/opt/local/include/ImageMagick and /opt/local/lib in this case) and I was ready to code. The API documentation and the tutorial give some hints, and using those examples I’ve cooked a quick image transformation utility to play with:
Interesting stuff indeed! The API provides a complete set of “Photoshop-like” operations on images, which I plan to study further in the near future.
2 Comments
#1. Yoan 05.28.2008
Why not using RMagick, PythonMagick instead of Magick++? Hey, it’s 2008! :-)
Respect.
#2. Adrian 05.28.2008
LOL Because sometimes you need to use C++ ;) Frankly, C++ rocks. Throw at it whatever you want, it’s a world of its own.
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