wand

Released on February 23rd, 2026.

Added Image.affine() method.

Added Image.bilateral_blur() method.

Added Image.channel_fx() method.

Added Image.evaluate_images() method.

Added Image.floodfill() method.

Added Image.morph() method.

Fixed Image.quantize() behavior by switching default value of colorspace_type from None to "undefined" . [ #644 ]

Fixed Image.liquid_rescale() behavior by switching default value of delta_x from 0 to 1 . [ #653 ]

Fixed Image.sparse_color() ’s colors argument structure to allow multiple (x, y) points with the same color value.

Fixed offset coordinates when used with gravity parameters. [ #669 ]

Image.chop()

Image.composite()

Image.composite_channel()

Image.crop()

Image.extent()

Image.region()

Image.splice()

Fixed File I/O handling. [ #675 ]

Image.ping()

Image.read()

Image.save()

[DOC] Updated Python versions to reflect current regression testing.

[TEST] Added Python 3.12 regression test. [ #648 by Thijs Triemstra]

[TEST] Added pyproject.toml regression test.

0.6 series

Released on November 3rd, 2023.

Removed broken pyproject.toml file from source distribution.

Released on November 3rd, 2023.

• Removed broken pyproject.toml file from source distribution.

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Released on November 3rd, 2023.

Fixed behavior when passing zero to Image.chop() . [ #622 ]

Fixed libmagick yield MagickCore library on Linux. [ #612 ]

Fixed removing mask when passing None to Image.write_mask() method. [ #636 ]

Added new COMPOSITE_OPERATORS operators. [ #627 by druzhynin-oleksii]

'freeze'

'interpolate'

'negate'

'reflect'

'rmse'

'saliency'

'seamless_blend'

'soft_burn'

'soft_dodge'

'stamp'

[DOC] Updated Sphinx version to 7.2.6

Released on January 5th, 2023.

Fixed format issue when calling Image.convert() , and Image.make_blob() methods. [ #594 ]

Fixed storage type size for “long” & “quantum” values in Image.export_pixels() and Image.import_pixels() methods. [ #596 ]

Added filter parameter to Image.distort() method.

[TEST] Added Python 3.11 to regression tests for github actions .

[TEST] Replaced py.path fixtures with pythlib . [ !607 & #608 by Louis Sautier]

[TEST] Retired Python2 support from regression testing.

[TEST] Upgraded Travis CI https://travis-ci.org/github/emcconville/wand build environments.

Released on August 14th, 2022.

Fixed segmentation fault during resource allocation on M1 processor. [ #587 ]

Fixed additional segmentation faults introduced with ImageMagick 7.1.0-45. [ #587 & #586 ]

Released on August 14th, 2022.

• Fixed segmentation fault during resource allocation on M1 processor. [587]

• Fixed additional segmentation faults introduced with ImageMagick 7.1.0-45. [587 & 586]

Released on August 3rd, 2022.

Updated Image.fx() method to raise WandRuntimeError if ImageMagick is unable to generate an image. [ #582 ]

Fixed Image.from_array() classmethod to handle Numpy’s strided arrays. [ #582 ]

Fixed segmentation fault introduced with ImageMagick 7.1.0-45. [ #586 ]

Released on August 3rd, 2022.

• Updated Image.fx() method to raise ~wand.exceptions.WandRuntimeError if ImageMagick is unable to generate an image. [582]

• Fixed Image.from_array() classmethod to handle Numpy's strided arrays. [582]

• Fixed segmentation fault introduced with ImageMagick 7.1.0-45. [586]

Released on July 16th, 2022.

Added Image.label() method.

Added Image.region() method.

Updated Image.chop() method to support gravity keyword.

Updated Image.extent() method to support gravity keyword. [ #554 ]

Added .so.9 shared library suffix to wand.api.library_paths() generator when searching MAGICK_HOME path.

Added QUANTUM_SCALE constant.

Added Image.montage() method. [ #575 ]

Added Image.roll() method.

Fixed returned values for Image.connected_components() method for ImageMagick 7.1.1. [ #574 ]

Fixed MagickSetImageDepth() C-API method signature. [ #577 by Pavel Borzenkov]

Fixed Image.encipher() method to call the correct API. [ #578 by Pavel Borzenkov]

[DOC] Improved FontMetrics documentation. [ #566 ]

[TEST] Migrated CI from travis-ci.org to travis-ci.com .

[TEST] Removed unneeded SVG dependency from regression test.

[TEST] Suppressed OptionWarning when testing user errors.

[TEST] Added Python 3.9 regression test for travis-ci.com .

[TEST] Removed Python 3.7 & 3.8 regression test for travis-ci.com .

[TEST] Added Python 3.10 regression tests for github actions .

Released on August 16th, 2021.

Added Image.image_add() method.

Added Image.image_get() method.

Added Image.image_remove() method.

Added Image.image_set() method.

Added Image.image_swap() method.

Fixed sub-image extraction on read. [ #532 ]

Fixed background_color attribute when image was not read.

[DOC] Completed Distortion guide. [ #534 ]

[DOC] Added Morphology guide.

Released on August 16th, 2021.

• Added Image.image_add() method.

• Added Image.image_get() method.

• Added Image.image_remove() method.

• Added Image.image_set() method.

• Added Image.image_swap() method.

• Fixed sub-image extraction on read. [532]

• Fixed ~wand.image.BaseImage.background_color attribute when image was not read.

• [DOC] Completed Distortion guide. [534]

• [DOC] Added Morphology guide.

Released on February 28th, 2021.

Added Image.get_image_distortion() method.

Fixed QuantumType allocation for 32-bit architectures using HDRI. [ #518 ]

Fixed MagickSizeType allocation for ResourceLimits.set_resource_limit() and segfault with armv7l architecture. [ #520 ]

Fixed Color deallocation error on 32-bit architectures.

Deprecated wand.color.scale_quantum_to_int8()

[TEST] Deprecated PDF format from test assets.

[TEST] Deprecated Drawing test fx_wand fixture to improve parallel CI testing.

[TEST] Marked all ImageMagick-7 features skipped when running test suite with ImageMagick-6. [ #522 ]

Released on February 28th, 2021.

• Added Image.get_image_distortion() method.

• Fixed QuantumType allocation for 32-bit architectures using HDRI. [518]

• Fixed MagickSizeType allocation for ResourceLimits.set_resource_limit() and segfault with armv7l architecture. [520]

• Fixed ~wand.color.Color deallocation error on 32-bit architectures.

• Deprecated wand.color.scale_quantum_to_int8()

• [TEST] Deprecated PDF format from test assets.

• [TEST] Deprecated ~wand.drawing.Drawing test fx_wand fixture to improve parallel CI testing.

• [TEST] Marked all ImageMagick-7 features skipped when running test suite with ImageMagick-6. [522]

Released on November 29th, 2020.

Fixed memory allocation & deallocation bugs with PyPy3, and various memory leaks identified during regression testing. [ #510 ]

[TEST] Added Python 3.9 into Github regression tests. [ #513 by Thijs Triemstra]

Released on November 29th, 2020.

• Fixed memory allocation & deallocation bugs with PyPy3, and various memory leaks identified during regression testing. [510]

• [TEST] Added Python 3.9 into Github regression tests. [513 by Thijs Triemstra]

Released on November 21st, 2020.

Fixed MagickFloatType mapping for s390x architecture. [ #504 & #505 ]

Fixed image order when calling wand.sequence.Sequence.setitem() method. [ #506 ]

Fixed Image.gaussian_blur() method with channel parameter. [ #507 ]

Added Image.color_threshold() method.

Added Image.convex_hull() method. Requires ImageMagick-7.0.10 or above.

Added Image.kmeans() method. Only available with ImageMagick-7.0.10-37 or later.

Added Image.minimum_bounding_box() method. Requires ImageMagick-7.0.10 or above;

Added Image.white_balance() method. Only available with ImageMagick-7.0.10-37 or later.

Added percent_background & background_color parameters to Image.trim() method.

Added the following arguments to Image.connected_components() :

angle_threshold

background_id

circularity_threshold

diameter_threshold

eccentricity_threshold

keep_colors

keep_top

major_axis_threshold

minor_axis_threshold

perimeter_threshold

remove_colors

Added 'inverse_log' operator to Image.evaluate() method.

Added 'rigidaffine' operator to Image.distort() method. Requires ImageMagick-7.0.10 or above.

Added PAPERSIZE_MAP dict as a convenience lookup table.

Added support for setting Image.page attribute with papersizes defined in PAPERSIZE_MAP .

[DOC] Created Threshold guide.

[DOC] Created Quantize guide.

Released on September 14th, 2020.

Fixed buffer overflow bug in Image.connected_components() method. [ #496 ]

Added Image.data_url() method. [ #489 ]

Added Image.sampling_factors property. [ #491 ]

Added Image.encipher() & Image.decipher() methods.

Argument fuzz for Image.transparent_color() now accepts numbers.Real numbers.

Uniformed additional pre-read parameters between Image.init() & Image.read() .

Released on July 6th, 2020.

Added aspect cropping support for Image.transform() method.

Added iterator methods to directly navigate the internal image-stack.

Image.iterator_first()

Image.iterator_get()

Image.iterator_last()

Image.iterator_length()

Image.iterator_next()

Image.iterator_previous()

Image.iterator_reset()

Image.iterator_set()

Added gray & cmyk support for Numpy’s array interface.

Fixed display() on Windows & MacOS when previewing MIFF & XC formats.

Fixed memory leak in Image.transform() for ImageMagick-6.

Fixed animation preservation with Image.transform() method. [ #251 ]

Fixed Image.interlace_scheme property. [ #488 ]

[DOC] Make the documentation reproducible. [ #484 by Chris Lamb]

Released on May 15th, 2020.

Fixed RuntimeError on deallocation when allocation_map changes. [ #482 by Louis Sautier]

Released on May 15th, 2020.

• Fixed RuntimeError on deallocation when allocation_map changes. [482 by Louis Sautier]

Released on May 14th, 2020.

Updated numpy array interface methods to accept / generate shape data values as rows , columns , and channels . This change should match other python-image numpy integrations. [ #447 ]

Added adjoin= argument to Image.save() method.

Added reset_coords= argument to Image.trim() method. [ #472 ]

Added support for atexit ’s shutdown routine. [ #248 & #361 ]

Added Python 2 classifiers to MANIFEST.in . [ #462 by Thijs Triemstra]

Added both test-cases and documentation to source distribution packages. [ #7 , #479 , #480 ]

Removed README.rst from setup.py . [ #460 ]

Rewrote memory allocation manager. [ #300 & #312 ]

Fixed segfault on macOS when invoking resource limits without calling MagickWandGenesis() .

Fixed grayscalealpha spelling. [ #463 ]

Fixed Image.deskew() threshold argument. [ #467 ]

Fixed Image.alpha_channel property to apply changes to all images in the stack. [ #468 ]

Fixed Image.trim() paging offsets affected by 1x1 border. [ #475 ]

[TEST] Updated Travis CI environment to Ubuntu 18.04.04 LTS (Bionic)

[TEST] Deprecated display fixtures.

0.5 series

Released on February 10th, 2020.

Fixed dither parameter in Image.quantize() method for ImageMagick-7.

Added Image.combine() method. [Thanks Fred!]

Check fspath attribute for filename parameter when calling Image.save() . [ #452 ]

Fixed typo in ProfileDict documentation. [ #450 by Thijs Triemstra]

Fixed typo in Resource.c_is_resource documentation. [ #448 ]

Updated broken sentence in Image.thumbnail() method. [ #446 ]

Check for linux_distribution() as method was removed in Python 3.8. [ #456 ]

Added Image.delay property. Previously only available with SingleImage class.

Released on December 5th, 2019.

Check WAND_MAGICK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX for additional library suffixes. [ #436 ]

Fixed MagickCompareImagesLayers() loading for ImageMagick-6 [ #439 ]

Fixed incorrect color values for first 5 pixels when exporting to numpy.array [ #442 ]

Updated example in Image.annotate() docstring. [ #441 by alexgv]

Fixed Image.resolution property to return a tuple of float values. [ #444 ]

Improved pycache performance by explicitly defining all ImageMagick warnings & errors in wand.exceptions . Previously all ImageMagick exceptions were generated dynamically during run-time.

Released on September 3rd, 2019.

Added Image.color_decision_list() method.

Added Image.contrast() method.

Added Image.local_contrast() method.

Added Image.ordered_dither() method.

Added Image.random_threshold() method.

Added Image.read_mask() method. [ #433 ]

Added Image.scale() method.

Added Image.sepia_tone() method.

Added Image.swirl() method.

Added Image.write_mask() method. [ #433 ]

Converted positional to key-word arguments to allow default values & allow more consistent behavior with CLI operations for the following methods:

Image.blur()

Image.gaussian_blur()

Image.selective_blur()

Image.spread()

Image.unsharp_mask()

Restored #320 fix. [Reported by #435 ]

Added colorspace & units argument to Image init. This is useful for defining sRGB ahead of reading CMYKA PDF documents.

Released on August 2nd, 2019.

Fixed invalid escape sequence warnings [ #428 ]

Fixed error on Drawing exception handling. [ #427 ]

Fixed undefined behavior when working with image frames in ImageMagick-7. [ #431 ]

Added Image.annotate() method. [ #418 ]

Added Image.level_colors() method.

Added Image.levelize_colors() method.

Added Image.parse_meta_geometry() method.

Added Image.percent_escape() helper method. [ #421 ]

Added Image.ping() class method. [ #425 ]

Added mean_color , keep , & remove parameters in Image.connected_components() method.

Released on July 8th, 2019.

Rewrote Image.contrast_stretch() method to follow modern CLI behavior.

Added Image.chop() method.

Added Image.clahe() method.

Added Image.features() method.

Added Image.forward_fourier_transform() method.

Added Image.inverse_fourier_transform() method.

Added Image.magnify() method.

Added channel parameter support for the following methods.

Image.adaptive_blur()

Image.adaptive_sharpen()

Image.blur()

Image.brightness_contrast()

Image.clamp()

Image.clut()

Image.equalize()

Image.gaussian_blur()

Image.hald_clut()

Image.noise()

Image.morphology()

Image.opaque_paint()

Image.selective_blur()

Image.sharpen()

Image.sigmoidal_contrast()

Image.solarize()

Image.statistic()

Image.unsharp_mask()

Added support for new methods introduced with ImageMagick 7.0.8-41. Upgrade to the latest ImageMagick version to take advantage of the following features.

Image.auto_threshold()

Image.canny()

Image.complex()

Image.connected_components()

Image.hough_lines()

Image.kuwahara()

Image.levelize()

Image.mean_shift()

Image.polynomial()

Image.range_threshold()

Image.seed

Image.wavelet_denoise()

Released on May 25th, 2019.

Rewrote libc library loader. [ #409 ]

Respect background parameter in Image.init() constructor. [ #410 ]

Fixed Drawing.get_font_metrics() not raising internal ImageMagick exception on rendering error. [ #411 ]

Fixed deleting image artifact value.

Fixed offset memory calculation in Image.export_pixels() & Image.import_pixels() methods. [ #413 ]

Added Image.auto_gamma() method.

Added Image.auto_level() method.

Added Image.border_color property.

Added Image.brightness_contrast() method.

Added Image.mode() method.

Added Image.motion_blur() method.

Added Image.oil_paint() method.

Added Image.opaque_paint() method.

Added Image.polaroid() method.

Added Image.rendering_intent property.

Added Image.rotational_blur() method.

Added Image.scene property.

Added Image.shear() method.

Added Image.sigmoidal_contrast() method.

Added Image.similarity() method.

Added Image.stegano() method.

Added Image.stereogram() class method.

Added Image.texture() method.

Added Image.thumbnail() method. [ #357 by yoch]

Added Image.ticks_per_second property.

Released on April 20, 2019.

Fixed alpha channel set to “on” & “off” values for ImageMagick-7. [ #404 ]

Updated Image.composite & Image.composite_channel to include optional arguments for composite methods that require extra controls.

Updated Image.composite & Image.composite_channel to include optional gravity argument.

• Support for numpy arrays. [ #65 ]

Added Image.from_array class method.

• Support color map / palette manipulation. [ #403 ]

Added Image.colors property.

Added Image.color_map() method.

Added Image.cycle_color_map() method.

Support for highlight & lowlight has been added to Image.compare() method.

Support for PEP-519 for objects implementing fspath , in encode_filename() .

Added Image.adaptive_blur() method.

Added Image.adaptive_resize() method.

Added Image.adaptive_sharpen() method.

Added Image.adaptive_threshold() method.

Added Image.black_threshold() method.

Added Image.blue_shift() method.

Added Image.charcoal() method.

Added Image.color_matrix() method.

Added Image.colorize() method.

Added Image.fuzz property.

Added Image.kurtosis property.

Added Image.kurtosis_channel() method

Added Image.maxima property.

Added Image.mean property.

Added Image.mean_channel() method

Added Image.minima property.

Added Image.noise() method.

Added Image.range_channel() method

Added Image.remap() method.

Added Image.selective_blur() method.

Added Image.skewness property.

Added Image.sketch() method.

Added Image.smush() method.

Added Image.sparse_color() method.

Added Image.splice() method.

Added Image.spread() method.

Added Image.standard_deviation property.

Added Image.statistic() method.

Added Image.tint() method.

Special thanks to Fred Weinhaus for helping test this release.

Released on March 24, 2019.

Import collections.abc explicitly. [ #398 by Stefan Naumann]

Fixed memory leak in HistogramDict . [ #397 ]

Fixed compression & compression quality bug. [ #202 & #278 ]

Image.read() will raise WandRuntimeError if MagickReadImage() returns MagickFalse , but does not emit exception. [ #319 ]

Added Image.implode() method.

Added Image.vignette() method.

Added Image.wave() method.

Added Image.white_threshold() method.

Added Image.blue_primary property.

Added Image.green_primary property.

Added Image.interlace_scheme property.

Added Image.interpolate_method property.

Added Image.red_primary property.

Added Image.white_point property.

Released on March 24, 2019.

• Import collections.abc explicitly. [398 by Stefan Naumann]

• Fixed memory leak in ~wand.image.HistogramDict. [397]

• Fixed compression & compression quality bug. [202 & 278]

• Image.read() will raise ~wand.exceptions.WandRuntimeError if MagickReadImage returns MagickFalse, but does not emit exception. [319]

• Added Image.implode() method.

• Added Image.vignette() method.

• Added Image.wave() method.

• Added Image.white_threshold() method.

• Added Image.blue_primary property.

• Added Image.green_primary property.

• Added Image.interlace_scheme property.

• Added Image.interpolate_method property.

• Added Image.red_primary property.

• Added Image.white_point property.

Released on February 15, 2019.

Added set pixel color via Image[x, y] = Color(’…’) . [ #105 ]

Added limits helper dictionary to allows getting / setting ImageMagick’s resource-limit policies. [ #97 ]

Fixed segmentation violation for win32 & ImageMagick-7. [ #389 ]

Fixed AssertError by moving SingleImage sync behavior from destroy to context exit . [ #388 ]

Fixed memory leak in get_font_metrics . [ #390 ]

Added property setters for Color attributes.

Added cyan , magenta , yellow , & black properties for CMYK Color instances.

Color instance can be created from HSL values with from_hsl() class method.

Added Image.compose property for identifying layer visibility.

Added Image.profiles dictionary attribute. [ #249 ]

Moved collections.abc to wand.compat.abc for Python-3.8. [ #394 by Tero Vuotila]

Update wand.display to use Python3 compatible print() function. [ #395 by Tero Vuotila]

Released on February 15, 2019.

• Added set pixel color via Image[x, y] = Color('...'). [105]

• Added limits helper dictionary to allows getting / setting ImageMagick's resource-limit policies. [97]

• Fixed segmentation violation for win32 & ImageMagick-7. [389]

• Fixed AssertError by moving ~wand.sequence.SingleImage sync behavior from destroy to context __exit__. [388]

• Fixed memory leak in ~wand.drawing.Drawing.get_font_metrics. [390]

• Added property setters for ~wand.color.Color attributes.

• Added ~wand.color.Color.cyan, ~wand.color.Color.magenta, ~wand.color.Color.yellow, & ~wand.color.Color.black properties for CMYK ~wand.color.Color instances.

• ~wand.color.Color instance can be created from HSL values with ~wand.color.Color.from_hsl() class method.

• Added Image.compose property for identifying layer visibility.

• Added Image.profiles dictionary attribute. [249]

• Moved collections.abc to wand.compat.abc for Python-3.8. [394 by Tero Vuotila]

• Update wand.display to use Python3 compatible print() function. [395 by Tero Vuotila]

Released on January 1, 2019.

Support for ImageMagick-7.

Improved support for 32-bit systems.

Improved support for non-Q16 libraries.

Removed README.rst from setup.py’s data_files . [ #336 ]

Improved EXIF:ORIENTATION handling. [ #364 by M. Skrzypek]

Tolerate failures while accessing wand.api. [ #220 by Utkarsh Upadhyay]

Added support for Image Artifacts through Image.artifacts . [ #369 ]

Added optional stroke color/width parameters for Font .

Image layers support ( #22 )

Added Image.coalesce() method.

Added Image.deconstruct method.

Added Image.dispose property.

Added Image.optimize_layers() method.

Added Image.optimize_transparency() method.

Implemented array_interface() for NumPy [ #65 ]

Migrated the following methods & attributes from Image to BaseImage for a more uniformed code-base.

Image.compression

Image.format

Image.auto_orient()

Image.border()

Image.contrast_stretch()

Image.gamma()

Image.level()

Image.linear_stretch()

Image.normalize()

Image.strip()

Image.transpose()

Image.transverse()

Image.trim()

Added Image.clut() method.

Added Image.concat() method. [ #177 ]

Added Image.deskew() method.

Added Image.despeckle() method.

Added Image.edge() method.

Added Image.emboss() method. [ #196 ]

Added Image.enhance() method. [ #132 ]

Added Image.export_pixels() method.

Added Image.import_pixels() method.

Added Image.morphology() method. [ #132 ]

Added Image.posterize() method.

Added Image.shade() method.

Added Image.shadow() method.

Added Image.sharpen() method. [ #132 ]

Added Image.shave() method.

Added Image.unique_colors() method.

Method Drawing.draw() now accepts BaseImage for folks extended classes.

Added Image.loop property. [ #227 ]

Fixed SingleImage.delay property. [ #153 ]

Attribute Image.font_antialias has been deprecated in favor of Image.antialias . [ #218 ]

Fixed ordering of COMPRESSION_TYPES based on ImageMagick version. [ #309 ]

Fixed drawing on SingleImage . [ #289 ]

Fixed wrapping issue for larger offsets when using gravity kwarg in Image.crop() method. [ #367 ]

0.4 series

Released on November 12, 2018.

Improve library searching when MAGICK_HOME environment variable is set. [ #320 by Chase Anderson]

Fixed misleading TypeError: object of type ‘NoneType’ has no len() during destroy routines. [ #346 by Carey Metcalfe]

Added Image.blur() method ( MagickBlurImage() ). [ #311 by Alexander Karpinsky]

Added Image.extent() method ( MagickExtentImage() ). [ #233 by Jae-Myoung Yu]

Added Image.resample() method ( MagickResampleImage() ). [ #244 by Zio Tibia]

Released on October 22, 2016.

• Added ~wand.exceptions.BaseError, ~wand.exceptions.BaseWarning, and ~wand.exceptions.BaseFatalError, base classes for domains. [292]

• Fixed TypeError during parsing version caused by format change of ImageMagick version string (introduced by 6.9.6.2). [310, Debian bug report #841548]

• Properly fixed again memory-leak when accessing images constructed in Image.sequence[]. It had still leaked memory in the case an image is not closed using with but manual wand.resource.Resource.destroy()/wand.image.Image.close() method call. [237]

Released on February 20, 2015.

• Complete wand.drawing API. The whole work was done by Eric McConville. Huge thanks for his effort! [194 by Eric McConville]

  • Added Drawing.arc() method (draw-arc).

  • Added Drawing.bezier() method (draw-bezier).

  • Added Drawing.circle() method (draw-circle).

  • draw-color-and-matte

    • Added wand.drawing.PAINT_METHOD_TYPES constant.

    • Added Drawing.color() method.

    • Added Drawing matte() method.

  • Added Drawing.composite() method (draw-composite).

  • Added Drawing.ellipse() method (draw-ellipse).

  • draw-paths

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_start() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_finish() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_close() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_curve() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_curve_to_quadratic_bezier() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_elliptic_arc() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_horizontal_line() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_line() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_move() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.path_vertical_line() method.

  • Added Drawing.point() method (draw-point).

  • Added Drawing.polygon() method (draw-polygon).

  • Added Drawing.polyline() method (draw-polyline).

  • draw-push-pop

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.push() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.push_clip_path() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.push_defs() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.push_pattern() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.clip_path property.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.set_fill_pattern_url() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.set_stroke_pattern_url() method.

    • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.pop() method.

  • Added Drawing.rectangle() method (draw-rectangles).

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_dash_array property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_dash_offset property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_line_cap property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_line_join property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_miter_limit property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_opacity property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.stroke_width property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.fill_opacity property.

  • Added ~wand.drawing.Drawing.fill_rule property.

• Error message of ~wand.exceptions.MissingDelegateError raised by Image.liquid_rescale() became nicer.

0.3 series

Released on August 4, 2013. It's author's birthday.

• Added Image.gaussian_blur() method.

• Added Drawing.stroke_color property. [129 by Zeray Rice]

• Added Drawing.stroke_width property. [130 by Zeray Rice]

• Fixed a memory leak of ~wand.color.Color class. [127 by Wieland Morgenstern]

• Fixed a bug that Image.save() to stream truncates data. [128 by Michael Allen]

• Fixed broken ~wand.display.display() on Python 3. [126]

Released on June 23, 2013.

• Fixed ~exceptions.ImportError on Windows.

Released on June 17, 2013.

• Now also works on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 or higher.

• Added wand.drawing module. [64 by Adrian Jung]

• Added Drawing.get_font_metrics() method. [69, 71 by Cha, Hojeong]

• Added Image.caption() method. [74 by Cha, Hojeong]

• Added optional color parameter to Image.trim() method.

• Added Image.border() method. [2496d37f75d75e9425f95dde07033217dc8afefc by Jae-Myoung Yu]

• Added resolution parameter to Image.read() method and the constructor of ~wand.image.Image. [75 by Andrey Antukh]

• Added Image.liquid_rescale() method which does seam carving. See also seam-carving.

• Added Image.metadata immutable mapping attribute and ~wand.image.Metadata mapping type for it. [56 by Michael Elovskikh]

• Added Image.channel_images immutable mapping attribute and ~wand.image.ChannelImageDict mapping for it.

• Added Image.channel_depths immutable mapping attribute and ~wand.image.ChannelDepthDict mapping for it.

• Added Image.composite_channel() method.

• Added Image.read() method. [58 by Piotr Florczyk]

• Added Image.resolution property. [58 by Piotr Florczyk]

• Added Image.blank() method. [60 by Piotr Florczyk]

• Fixed several memory leaks. [62 by Mitch Lindgren]

• Added ~wand.image.ImageProperty mixin class to maintain a weak reference to the parent image.

• Ranamed wand.image.COMPOSITE_OPS to ~wand.image.COMPOSITE_OPERATORS.

• Now it shows helpful error message when ImageMagick library cannot be found.

• Added IPython-specialized formatter.

• Added ~wand.version.QUANTUM_DEPTH constant.

• Added these properties to ~wand.color.Color class:

  • ~wand.color.Color.red_quantum

  • ~wand.color.Color.green_quantum

  • ~wand.color.Color.blue_quantum

  • ~wand.color.Color.alpha_quantum

  • ~wand.color.Color.red_int8

  • ~wand.color.Color.green_int8

  • ~wand.color.Color.blue_int8

  • ~wand.color.Color.alpha_int8

• Added Image.normalize() method. [95 by Michael Curry]

• Added Image.transparent_color() method. [98 by Lionel Koenig]

• Started supporting resizing and cropping of GIF images. [88 by Bear Dong, 112 by Taeho Kim]

• Added Image.flip() method.

• Added Image.flop() method.

• Added Image.orientation property. [88574468a38015669dae903185fb328abdd717c0 by Taeho Kim]

• wand.resource.DestroyedResourceError becomes a subtype of wand.exceptions.WandException.

• ~wand.color.Color is now hashable, so can be used as a key of dictionaries, or an element of sets. [114 by klutzy]

• ~wand.color.Color has ~wand.color.Color.normalized_string property.

• ~wand.image.Image has ~wand.image.BaseImage.histogram dictionary.

• Added optional fuzz parameter to Image.trim() method. [113 by Evaldo Junior]

0.2 series

Released on August 19, 2012. Beta version.

• Added Image.trim() method. [26 by Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson]

• Added Image.depth property. [31 by Piotr Florczyk]

• Now ~wand.image.Image can take an optional format hint. [32 by Michael Elovskikh]

• Added Image.alpha_channel property. [35 by Piotr Florczyk]

• The default value of Image.resize()'s filter option has changed from 'triangle' to 'undefined'. [37 by Piotr Florczyk]

• Added version data of the linked ImageMagick library into wand.version module:

  • ~wand.version.MAGICK_VERSION (GetMagickVersion)

  • ~wand.version.MAGICK_VERSION_INFO (GetMagickVersion)

  • ~wand.version.MAGICK_VERSION_NUMBER (GetMagickVersion)

  • ~wand.version.MAGICK_RELEASE_DATE (GetMagickReleaseDate)

  • ~wand.version.MAGICK_RELEASE_DATE_STRING (GetMagickReleaseDate)

Released on May 8, 2012. Still alpha version.

• So many Windows compatibility issues are fixed. [14 by John Simon]

• Added wand.api.libmagick.

• Fixed a bug that raises ~exceptions.AttributeError when it's trying to warn. [16 by Tim Dettrick]

• Now it throws ~exceptions.ImportError instead of ~exceptions.AttributeError when the shared library fails to load. [17 by Kieran Spear]

• Fixed the example usage on index page of the documentation. [18 by Jeremy Axmacher]

Released on December 23, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Now wand.version.VERSION_INFO becomes tuple and wand.version.VERSION becomes a string.

• Added Image.background_color property.

• Added == operator for ~wand.image.Image type.

• Added hash() support of ~wand.image.Image type.

• Added Image.signature property.

• Added wand.display module.

• Changed the theme of Sphinx documentation.

• Changed the start example of the documentation.

Released on December 2, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Wrote some guide documentations: guide/read, guide/write and guide/resizecrop.

• Added Image.rotate() method for in-place rotation.

• Made Image.crop() to raise proper ValueError instead of IndexError for invalid width/height arguments.

• Changed the type of Image.resize() method's blur parameter from numbers.Rational to numbers.Real.

• Fixed a bug of raising ~exceptions.ValueError when invalid filter has passed to Image.resize() method.

Released on October 28, 2011. Slightly mature alpha version.

• Now ~wand.image.Image can read Python file objects by file keyword argument.

• Now Image.save() method can write into Python file objects by file keyword argument.

• Image.make_blob()'s format argument becomes omittable.

Released on October 27, 2011. Slightly mature alpha version.

• Pixel getter for ~wand.image.Image.

• Row getter for ~wand.image.Image.

• Mac compatibility.

• Windows compatibility.

• 64-bit processor compatibility.

Released on October 16, 2011. Still alpha version.

• ~wand.image.Image implements iterable interface.

• Added wand.color module.

• Added the abstract base class of all Wand resource objects: wand.resource.Resource.

• ~wand.image.Image implements slicing.

• Cropping ~wand.image.Image using its slicing operator.