Überzug is a command line util which draws images on terminals by using child windows. The advantages of using Überzug are:

• No race conditions as a new window is created to display images.

• Expose events will be processed, so images will be redrawn on switch workspaces.

• Tmux support (excluding multi pane windows).

• Terminals without the WINDOWID environment variable are supported.

• Chars are used as position - and size unit.

• No memory leak (/ unlimited cache).

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.

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.

Libmng is the MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) reference library.

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.).

pngquant is a PNG compressor that significantly reduces file sizes by converting images to a more efficient 8-bit PNG format with alpha channel (often 60-80% smaller than 24/32-bit PNG files). Compressed images are fully standards-compliant and are supported by all web browsers and operating systems.

Features:

1. High-quality palette generation using a combination of vector quantization algorithms.

2. Unique adaptive dithering algorithm that adds less noise to images than the standard Floyd-Steinberg.

3. Easy to integrate with shell scripts, GUIs and server-side software.

4. Fast mode for real-time processing/large numbers of images.

The JasPer Project is an initiative to provide a reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e., ISO/IEC 15444-1).

libheif is an ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF and AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) file format decoder and encoder.

This package contains a reference implementation of JPEG XL (encoder and decoder).

LibSIXEL is a an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics, and some converter programs. SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by DEC. Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is cat it to your terminal.

GGG (Guile Glyph Generator) is a command-line utility that allows you to generate pretty images/badges which can be used for your projects, announcing tech used, sponsoring and appreciating other projects, distinguishing versions of things supported, etc.

GGG is highly configurable, reads Scheme files where you define your tasks, and supports badges between one and three parts. It leverages SVG generation from Lisp and S-expressions, building pixel perfect badges.

Zimg implements the commonly required image processing basics of scaling, colorspace conversion, and depth conversion. A simple API enables conversion between any supported formats to operate with minimal knowledge from the programmer.

Gifsicle is a command-line GIF image manipulation tool that:

• Provides a batch mode for changing GIFs in place.

• Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments.

• Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency, etc.

• Creates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses local color tables, etc.

• Shrinks colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe palette.

• Optimizes GIF animations, or unoptimizes them for easier editing.

Two other programs are included with Gifsicle: gifview is a lightweight animated-GIF viewer, and gifdiff compares two GIFs for identical visual appearance.

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

This package provides a C interface to the VIGRA C++ computer vision library. It is designed primarily to ease the implementation of higher-level language bindings to VIGRA.

Picket is a screen color picker that includes a magnifier and supports custom formats for representing color values..

Developer's Image Library (DevIL) is a library to develop applications with support for many types of images. DevIL can load, save, convert, manipulate, filter and display a wide variety of image formats.

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.

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

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.

JPEG XR is an approved ISO/IEC International standard (its official designation is ISO/IEC 29199-2). This library is an implementation of that standard.

imgp is a command line image resizer and rotator for JPEG and PNG images. It can resize (or thumbnail) and rotate thousands of images in a go while saving significantly on storage.

This package may optionally be built with python-pillow-simd in place of python-pillow for SIMD parallelism.

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.).

FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others.