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PeterSieg · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany, 37603

Hi. go here:

http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php

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 in your machine), and for working with colour. Here is a recent publication on VIPS.

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 Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD),
Windows (NT, 2k and XP only) 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.

VIPS has been used and developed in the EU projects VASARI, MARC, VISEUM, ACOHIR, CRISATEL,
ARTISTE and MUSA. The Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
use it as an image processing framework in research projects. It's used at The National Gallery,
London for most of their imaging research. VIPS is also used in a number of other labs, museums and
galleries around the world (including MOMA, the Louvre and BStGS), mostly for infra-red reflectogram
mosaic assembly. IIPimage use it to manipulate very large images.

I have NOT tested this or compilled it under Puppy...

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Nathan F · Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2005, 11:00 Post subject:

Looks very interesting, thank you Peter.

Nathan

Nathan F · Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2005, 11:13 Post subject:

I'm playing around with the static binary right now. Looks promising in some ways. Not the greatest interface but it's fast. Looks like a good way to get images color corrected quickly, as long as their in one of the few formats it can handle. I'll see about building from source sometime.

Nathan

PeterSieg · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany, 37603

I new you were interested... Laughing

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jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

and people say Linux isn't a very good OS for graphic design...what are they thinking?

I've not tried VIPS yet. I'm pretty happy with GIMP and Inkscape right now, and I'm anxiously awaiting Xara Xtreme. I'm going to look today and see if they have any updated news.

Nathan F · Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2005, 23:09 Post subject:

I've been watching that one as well, but make sure to drop me a line if you see anything new just in case I miss it.

Nathan