[Haskell] Image manipulation

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 21:40 , Don Stewart wrote:

> listuser07:
>>    Hi! I have lots and lots of images (jpegs) that I would like to  
>> manipulate
>>    and shrink (in size). They are around 5 Mb big, so I thought  
>> this would be
>>    a good Haskell project since it's a lazy evaluating language.  
>> The problem
>>    is that I can't find any libraries for image manipulation.  
>> Anyone who
>>    knows something that would interest me and maybe give me some  
>> advices?
>>
>
> check on hackage.haskell.org. There's gtk and imlib, at least.
> Using bytestrings also makes sense here.

There's also the GD binding:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/gd

I wrote it to be able to do image resizing and scaling in the photo  
album module for Hope, http://hope.bringert.net/

/Björn