WideImage is an object-oriented PHP image library. It is written in PHP 5 and for image manipulatiing it only requires GD2 library.

The library focuses on often-used image operations and ease of use. It provides a simple and unified way to loading and saving images from/to files, strings, database and even URLs (load only, must be enabled in PHP). Supports the most common image formats.

WideImage example use:

• Simple examples (load, resize, crop, save)
• Loading images (from file, database, URL, gd handle)
• Saving images (to file, database, gd handle)
• Image operations (resize, crop, rotate, mask, sharpen, merge, draw text, etc)

Requirements: Php 5.2+ & GD2 library

Website: http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/wiki/MainPage