11 best C++ Image Manipulation libraries in 2024

Image manipulation libraries have at least some of the following features: (1) The ability to read an image from a file in various formats (like PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, etc.). (2) The ability to save an image in various formats. (3) Allowing basic operations like resizing or cropping images. (4) A following advanced operations like manipulating the color channels or applying filters. Popular open source C++ libraries for Image Manipulaton include: YUView - a YUV player and analysis tool; Waterspout - simd abstraction library especially crafted. It checks the CPU and chooses the best streaming instruction set suited for that particular run of the application. It’s also possible to opt-in or out at compile time which kind of instructions to enable, and with the software FPU fallback it’s possible to run the same code on different and even older CPUs; Imquery - A simple scripting language focused on image manipulation. The following is a list of the most popular open source libraries: