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.

It comes in two main parts: nip2 is the graphical user-interface and libvips is the image-processing library. 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.

Requirements:

￭ X11 Installed.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

� minor docs fixes
� read and write CMYKA tiff (thanks Doron)
� performance improvements for morphology ops, esp. when zooming out
� oop, im_render() was broken for mask == NULL
� better support for multiple Python installs (thanks Jay)
� im_histcum() works for signed histograms
� better rounding for im_conv(), im_convsep()
� tiny speedup for im_conv()
� better /0 test for remainderconst
� revise i18n configure, removed intltool
� command-line IMAGVEC input could segv with non-vips image output