VIPS Reference Manual: VIPS Reference Manual

For VIPS 8.5.5. The latest version of this documentation can be found on the VIPS website.

VIPS from the command-line — How to use the VIPS library from the command-line
VIPS from C — How to use the VIPS library from C
VIPS from Python — How to use the VIPS library from Python
VIPS from C++ — How to use the VIPS library from C++
Writing bindings for libvips — How to write bindings for libvips
Extending VIPS — How to add operations to VIPS
VIPS function list — List of VIPS functions and operators
The VIPS file format — The VIPS file format
VIPS and threads — VIPS and threading
How libvips works
Opening files
Image pyramids
Using vipsthumbnail
Examples
Cite

arithmetic — operations which perform pixel arithmetic, trig, log, statistics
colour — colour operators
conversion — convert images in some way: change band format, change header, insert, extract, join
convolution — convolve and correlate images
VipsForeignSave — load and save images in a variety of formats
freqfilt — fourier transforms and frequency-domin filters
histogram — find, manipulate and apply histograms and lookup tables
draw — drawing operations: flood, paste, line, circle
VipsInterpolate — various interpolators: nearest, bilinear, and some non-linear
morphology — morphological operators, rank filters and related image analysis
mosaicing — build image mosaics
create — create images in various ways
resample — resample images in various ways