OpenJPEG is an implementation of JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. It has been developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000, a still-image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). Since April 2015, it is officially recognized by ISO/IEC and ITU-T as a JPEG 2000 Reference Software.

Libpng is the official PNG (Portable Network Graphics) reference library. It supports almost all PNG features and is extensible.

OpenJPEG-Data contains all files required to run the openjpeg test suite, including conformance tests (following Rec. ITU-T T.803 | ISO/IEC 15444-4 procedures), non-regression tests and unit tests.

Imlib2 is a library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support, etc.

It does ALL of these operations FAST. Imlib2 also tries to be highly intelligent about doing them, so writing naive programs can be done easily, without sacrificing speed.

This is a complete rewrite over the Imlib 1.x series. The architecture is more modular, simple, and flexible.

Gpick is an advanced color picker and palette editing tool.

WebP is a new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller in size compared to JPEG images at equivalent SSIM index. WebP supports lossless transparency (also known as alpha channel) with just 22% additional bytes. Transparency is also supported with lossy compression and typically provides 3x smaller file sizes compared to PNG when lossy compression is acceptable for the red/green/blue color channels.

Libavif is a C implementation of AVIF. It can encode and decode all YUV formats and bit depths supported by AOM, including with alpha.

JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of bilevel (1-bit monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression ratios on the order of 100:1.

This is a decoder only implementation, and currently is in the alpha stage, meaning it doesn't completely work yet. However, it is maintaining parity with available encoders, so it is useful for real work.

Icoutils are a set of program for extracting and converting bitmaps from Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files). (Such embedded files are referred to as resources.)

Conversion of these files to and from PNG images is done icotool. extresso automates these tasks with the help of special resource scripts. Resources such can be extracted from MS Windows executable and library files with wrestool.

This package can be used to create favicon.ico files for web sites.

OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.

This is a tiny, header-only C++ library for manipulating INI files.

SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools.

SNG is implemented by a compiler/decompiler called sng that losslessly translates between SNG and PNG.

swappy is a command-line utility to take and edit screenshots of Wayland desktops. Works great with grim, slurp and sway. But can easily work with other screen copy tools that can output a final PNG image to stdout.

VIGRA stands for Vision with Generic Algorithms. It is an image processing and analysis library that puts its main emphasis on customizable algorithms and data structures. It is particularly strong for multi-dimensional image processing.

Nifti_clib is a set of I/O libraries for reading and writing files in the nifti-1, nifti-2, and (to some degree) cifti file formats. These are binary file formats for storing medical image data, e.g. MRI and fMRI brain images.

Gradia is a GTK 4 application for enhancing and preparing screenshots for blogs, social media, and documentation. It supports background customization, annotation tools (pen, arrow, text, highlight, stamp), padding, cropping, and various export formats.

Flameshot is a screenshot program. Features:

• Customizable appearance.

• Easy to use.

• In-app screenshot edition.

• DBus interface.

• Upload to Imgur.

Simple encoder and decoder for blurhashes. Contains a command line program as well as a shared library.

Phockup is a media sorting tool that uses creation date and time information in photos and videos to organize them into folders by year, month and day. All files which are not images or videos or those which do not have creation date information will be placed in a folder called unknown.

libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that accelerates baseline JPEG compression and decompression using SIMD instructions: MMX on x86, SSE2 on x86-64, NEON on ARM, and AltiVec on PowerPC processors. Even on other systems, its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines allow it to outperform libjpeg by a significant amount. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API and the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API, and provides a full-featured Java interface. It supports color space extensions that allow it to compress from and decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.).

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of images in various formats.

Libtiff provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a format used for storing image data. Included are a library, libtiff, for reading and writing TIFF and a small collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images.

libungif is the old GIF decompression library by the GIFLIB project.

jpegoptim provides lossless optimization (based on optimizing the Huffman tables) and "lossy" optimization based on setting maximum quality factor.