Hello Dave, > Hi All. I've been formulating in my head a simple image editor. I > actually started prototyping is some time ago in Java, but am liking > Python more and more. My editor will be nowhere near the level of Gimp/ > Photoshop, but I do need fast pixel level control and display. For > instance, that means no automatic anti-aliasing and that I will be > implementing my own line drawing algorithms. > > I've got the high level architectual aspects of my program down, but > am stuck on what graphics API to use. I want a canvas area of > adjustable size which users can draw on with as little lag as > possible. The canvas area will be composed of layers (i.e. I require > an alpha channel) and I need to be able to zoom in and out of it (zoom > levels will be at fixed intervals, so this can be simulated if need > be.) > > I started looking at PyGame but realize that I need to integrate a GUI > into the whole thing (or integrate the image into the GUI rather) and > I didn't see a straightforward way to do that. Of course, I don't even > know if PyGame is the right API for the job anyways :P > > Any thoughts or ideas that could help me get started? Thanks! Apart from PIL, some other options are: 1. Most GUI frameworks (wxPython, PyQT, ...) give you a canvas object you can draw on 2. A bit of an overkill, but you can use PyOpenGL 3. ImageMagick bindings? (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php)
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