ImageMagick Alternatives

Discussions revolve around ImageMagick, its alternatives like libvips, GraphicsMagick, and Sharp for image manipulation tasks such as resizing, conversion, and optimization, comparing speed, features, and usability.

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Gualdrapo Jul 29, 2023 View on HN

What about imagemagick/graphicsmagick?

thomasz Jan 20, 2017 View on HN

If you need something right now, consider imagemagick or graphicsmagick.

jrochkind1 Mar 25, 2018 View on HN

have you tried vips as an alternative to imagemagick? it's pretty amazing.

MengerSponge Mar 24, 2015 View on HN

How is this better than ImageMagick?

tobinfricke Mar 25, 2013 View on HN

What's wrong with "just using ImageMagic"?

If you prefer imagemagick to photoshop.

foverzar Feb 18, 2023 View on HN

I've always used ImageMagick for this kind of stuff.

yread Jun 29, 2022 View on HN

Have you tried libvips? I've found it much more pleasant to use than ImageMagick. And the maintainer has insanely short response time

hanoz Mar 13, 2018 View on HN

Would this be capable of doing image resizing?

mFixman Apr 11, 2021 View on HN

Why not use Imagemagick? It's by far the simplest and most practical tool for image manipulation.