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volatile · May 15th, 2006, 11:42 AM

OpenGL and DirectX is used for drawing graphics to the screen and is not suitable for manipulating images. I would recomend ImageMagick: www.imagemagick.org. It will create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B�zier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated. It support more than 95 image formats.

You may do these operations via command line tools or use libraries for the following languages: C, Ch, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk. It also has ready made interfaces. It's free, open source and runs on all major operating systems.

I dont know about sound manipulaiton/conversion, but I dont think OpenAL is the answer.

May 15th, 2006, 11:42 AM	#3
volatile Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	OpenGL and DirectX is used for drawing graphics to the screen and is not suitable for manipulating images. I would recomend ImageMagick: www.imagemagick.org. It will create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B�zier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated. It support more than 95 image formats. You may do these operations via command line tools or use libraries for the following languages: C, Ch, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk. It also has ready made interfaces. It's free, open source and runs on all major operating systems. I dont know about sound manipulaiton/conversion, but I dont think OpenAL is the answer.