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.
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4 Comments
05.28.2008
Why not using RMagick, PythonMagick instead of Magick++? Hey, it’s 2008! :-)
Respect.
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.
03.01.2009
Hi,
I’m really interested in using this in iPhone development. Is that even possible?
Am I able to convert Cocoa/Quartz object (ie. UIImage, CGImageRef) to ImageMagick object and vice versa?
Thanks
03.01.2009
Hi Narut,
Thanks for your comment!
I found this link which might be of interest to you regarding the port of ImageMagick to the iPhone / iPod Touch environment (it is from February 10th, 2008):
http://tinyurl.com/imagemagickiphone
And apparently it only covers jailbroken devices.
However, you can’t simply convert one object to another just like that, in case you have the libraries installed and working. This just doesn’t work at all in general between libraries, unless there’s an explicit conversion method somewhere.
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