VIPS

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What is it?

VIPS is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel. It is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop get used for. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM you have available), with many CPUs (see Benchmarks), for working with colour and for general research & development.

It comes in two main parts: libvips is the image-processing library and nip2 is the graphical user-interface. Both work on Unix (with convenient packages for most popular distributions, see links), Windows (NT, 2k and XP tested) and Macintosh (OS 10.2 and later). The VIPS library is licensed under the LGPL and and the user-interfaces are licensed under the GPL. See http://www.gnu.org.

Download

Supported 

Download and install the current supported version.

Development 

Read about and download the current development version.

Bluesky 

What we have so far for the version after next.

Site highlights

News 

News about VIPS.

Screenshots 

Various screenshots.

Documentation 

Documentation for the current supported version.

FAQ 

Frequently asked questions.

Contact 

Maintainers and the mailing list.

Links 

Related sites, pages about VIPS, people who use VIPS.

Quotes 

from users/developers

Other stuff

What's New in 7.12 

We've just released 7.12, a fancy new version. This page explains what's new in headline form.

Hello World 

Minimal programs using VIPS, handy for testing.

HOWTO 

Various HOWTO guides, including building on windows.

Extras 

Add-ons for VIPS.

libvips 

Quick introduction to the library.

nip2 

Quick overview of the graphical user interface.

TODO 

Stuff that's being planned for upcoming versions. Also bug reports and suggestions.

Benchmarks 

Results from the vips im_benchmark command.

Python 

About the Python interface.