Imaging

Package imaging provides basic image manipulation functions (resize, rotate, flip, crop, etc.). This package is based on the standard Go image package and works best along with it.

Image manipulation functions provided by the package take any image type that implements image.Image interface as an input, and return a new image of *image.NRGBA type (32bit RGBA colors, not premultiplied by alpha).

Installation

Imaging requires Go version 1.2 or greater.

go get -u github.com/disintegration/imaging

Documentation

http://godoc.org/github.com/disintegration/imaging

Usage examples

A few usage examples can be found below. See the documentation for the full list of supported functions.

Image resizing

// resize srcImage to size = 128x128px using the Lanczos filter
dstImage128 := imaging.Resize(srcImage, 128, 128, imaging.Lanczos)

// resize srcImage to width = 800px preserving the aspect ratio
dstImage800 := imaging.Resize(srcImage, 800, 0, imaging.Lanczos)

// scale down srcImage to fit the 800x600px bounding box
dstImageFit := imaging.Fit(srcImage, 800, 600, imaging.Lanczos)

// resize and crop the srcImage to fill the 100x100px area
dstImageFill := imaging.Fill(srcImage, 100, 100, imaging.Center, imaging.Lanczos)

Imaging supports image resizing using various resampling filters. The most notable ones:

NearestNeighbor - Fastest resampling filter, no antialiasing.
Box - Simple and fast averaging filter appropriate for downscaling. When upscaling it's similar to NearestNeighbor.
Linear - Bilinear filter, smooth and reasonably fast.
MitchellNetravali - А smooth bicubic filter.
CatmullRom - A sharp bicubic filter.
Gaussian - Blurring filter that uses gaussian function, useful for noise removal.
Lanczos - High-quality resampling filter for photographic images yielding sharp results, but it's slower than cubic filters.

The full list of supported filters: NearestNeighbor, Box, Linear, Hermite, MitchellNetravali, CatmullRom, BSpline, Gaussian, Lanczos, Hann, Hamming, Blackman, Bartlett, Welch, Cosine. Custom filters can be created using ResampleFilter struct.

Resampling filters comparison

Original image. Will be resized from 512x512px to 128x128px.

Filter	Resize result
`imaging.NearestNeighbor`
`imaging.Box`
`imaging.Linear`
`imaging.MitchellNetravali`
`imaging.CatmullRom`
`imaging.Gaussian`
`imaging.Lanczos`

Resize functions comparison

Original image:

Resize the image to width=100px and height=100px:

dstImage := imaging.Resize(srcImage, 100, 100, imaging.Lanczos)

Resize the image to width=100px preserving the aspect ratio:

dstImage := imaging.Resize(srcImage, 100, 0, imaging.Lanczos)

Resize the image to fit the 100x100px boundng box preserving the aspect ratio:

dstImage := imaging.Fit(srcImage, 100, 100, imaging.Lanczos)

Resize and crop the image with a center anchor point to fill the 100x100px area:

dstImage := imaging.Fill(srcImage, 100, 100, imaging.Center, imaging.Lanczos)

Gaussian Blur

dstImage := imaging.Blur(srcImage, 0.5)

Sigma parameter allows to control the strength of the blurring effect.

Original image	Sigma = 0.5	Sigma = 1.5

Sharpening

dstImage := imaging.Sharpen(srcImage, 0.5)

Uses gaussian function internally. Sigma parameter allows to control the strength of the sharpening effect.

Original image	Sigma = 0.5	Sigma = 1.5

Gamma correction

dstImage := imaging.AdjustGamma(srcImage, 0.75)

Original image	Gamma = 0.75	Gamma = 1.25

Contrast adjustment

dstImage := imaging.AdjustContrast(srcImage, 20)

Original image	Contrast = 20	Contrast = -20

Brightness adjustment

dstImage := imaging.AdjustBrightness(srcImage, 20)

Original image	Brightness = 20	Brightness = -20

Complete code example

Here is the code example that loads several images, makes thumbnails of them and combines them together side-by-side.

package main

import (
    "image"
    "image/color"
    
    "github.com/disintegration/imaging"
)

func main() {

    // input files
    files := []string{"01.jpg", "02.jpg", "03.jpg"}

    // load images and make 100x100 thumbnails of them
    var thumbnails []image.Image
    for _, file := range files {
        img, err := imaging.Open(file)
        if err != nil {
            panic(err)
        }
        thumb := imaging.Thumbnail(img, 100, 100, imaging.CatmullRom)
        thumbnails = append(thumbnails, thumb)
    }

    // create a new blank image
    dst := imaging.New(100*len(thumbnails), 100, color.NRGBA{0, 0, 0, 0})

    // paste thumbnails into the new image side by side
    for i, thumb := range thumbnails {
        dst = imaging.Paste(dst, thumb, image.Pt(i*100, 0))
    }

    // save the combined image to file
    err := imaging.Save(dst, "dst.jpg")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

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