Looking For a Free Image Editing Component

Any good ones out there?

[ziggystardust]

What it has to be able to do:

- resize an image
- crop an image
- merge two pictures into one
- save an image in CMYK color mode
- read and save (at least) tiff/jpeg/gif
- work with ASP (or ASP.NET)

And on top of this, it has to be free.

I've tried GflAx but the merge functions in it are pretty weird and it doesn't save in CMYK.

All suggestions are appreciated
Thanks
//ZS

[txbakers]

Why does it have to be free? There are several fine ones out there including ASPJpeg which will do all that, but the programmer wants to be able to feed his children, pay his bills, and perhaps take the family to a movie once in a while.

Why free? Not all software developers are hobbyists and university supported. Some of us like to earn a living this way.

[ziggystardust]

The reason it has to be a free component is that I'm currently producing a demo of an application that *might*, with a bit of luck (fingers crossed), be done in the future.

I don't want to pay $300 for something that's perhaps only going to be used in a demo, but at the same time I can't use the trial versions that put some extra "Trial Version"-text on my images.

If we decide to do a full application, we'll need more features from the component, so we'll probably buy one then.

Hope that answered your question.
//ZS

[txbakers]

ASP Image is $69.95 from serverobjects.
They have a 30 day trial without a watermark.

ASPJpeg from ASPUpload.com is $150
They also have a 30 day trial without a watermark.

I understand that .NET has something like that built in, but I haven't used it yet.

[ziggystardust]

Thanks.

But in the end, we found a component called ImageGlue that we've decided to use. This is because according to their websites, neither AspImage nor AspJpeg do TIFFs.

//ZS

[Xoc]

If you want to manipulate images in .NET, I highly recommend that you buy the book Programming Microsoft Windows with C#, by Charles Petzold. It talks about all the image manipulation classes in .NET.

[raptorix]

Asp.NET has also libraries to do this. For classic asp, asppainter is a very cheap and goog product.