What programming language to use.

[tank171]

I want to know which programming language for editing 2d images. I need to be able to make a program which looks at the individual pixels of an image and change some pixels according to certain perameters. It would be good if it could look at frames in a video clip too.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[kamper]

Are you going for speed or ease of programming (or both)? Actually, depending on what you want to do, you could probably pick just about any language that has an interface to gd or other similar image libraries. Frames in video clips is probably harder. Focus your search on a library that can do what you want and then pick a language depending on that.

 

[tank171]

I would definately prefer ease of use, as I am new to programming. I really dont know which libraries to pick from, there are so many of them.

 

[kamper]

Python and PIL are pretty easy as far as 2d images go. There's also python bindings for gd and other stuff. Dunno about video though.

But maybe a better question is: what languages are you familiar with and what sort of an environment will you be running the code in?

 

[tank171]

I am really new to programming in general, my OP was to pick which language that I want to start learning in. I have some experience in C++ and python. I will be running this on windows xp probably as a DOS file, just whatever kind of file that works.

 

[jetbrains]

You can try java 2d API.
Hope it helps