xzgv is a fast image viewer that provides extensive keyboard support.

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

libyuv is an open source project that includes YUV scaling and conversion functionality. It can:

• Scale YUV to prepare content for compression, with point, bilinear or box filter.

• Convert to YUV from webcam formats for compression.

• Convert to RGB formats for rendering/effects.

• Rotate by 90/180/270 degrees to adjust for mobile devices in portrait mode.

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.

Jp2a is a small utility that converts JPEG images to ASCII.

Libjpeg implements JPEG image encoding, decoding, and transcoding. JPEG is a standardized compression method for full-color and gray-scale images. It also includes programs that provide conversion between the JPEG format and image files in PBMPLUS PPM/PGM, GIF, BMP, and Targa file formats, as well as lossless JPEG manipulations such as rotation, scaling or cropping:

1. cjpeg

2. djpeg

3. jpegtran

4. rdjpgcom

5. wrjpgcom

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

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.

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files (by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs, a.k.a. checksums, and decompressing the image data); it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statistics about an image (dimensions, bit depth, etc.); to list the color and transparency info in its palette (assuming it has one); or to extract the embedded text annotations. This is a command-line program with batch capabilities (e.g. pngcheck *.png.)

Also includes pngsplit which can split a PNG, MNG or JNG file into individual, numbered chunks, and png-fix-IDAT-windowsize that allows resetting first IDAT's zlib window-size bytes and fix up CRC to match.

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.

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.

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).

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.

A pretty small png library. Currently all documentation resides in pnglite.h.

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

IQA is a C library for objectively measuring image/video quality. It implements many popular algorithms, such as MS-SSIM, MS-SSIM*, SIMM, MSE, and PSNR. It is designed to be fast, accurate, and reliable. All code is Valgrind-clean and unit tested.

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

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

GIFLIB is a library for reading and writing GIF images. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif which was in wide use while the LZW compression algorithm was patented. Tools are also included to convert, manipulate, compose, and analyze GIF images.

grim can create screenshots from a Wayland compositor.

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.

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.

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.).