csXImage

Programmers planning to integrate image functionality into the software utilities they create need a capable tool at their fingertips, and csXImage claims to be just that.

Being focused on environments driven by ActiveX, the image control provides you with the means of reading and manipulating photos in a multitude of ways, which should cover conversions, editing tasks, and more.

It is worth pointing out that importing images from TWAIN compliant webcams and scanners is an option, and naturally, turning to the clipboard, disk, binary data, or a URL for the same purpose should work as well.

Being able to handle various popular image file formats such as JPG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, and WBMP, the OCX control offers export capabilities as well, with PDF being supported in this regard. Needless to say, performing conversions between any of these image formats is possible.

In terms of editing, you should know that making adjustments to the contrast, brightness, grayscale, and blur should raise no difficulty, and adding text to your photos is equally simple. Moreover, optional color fills can be employed, and merging, resizing, cropping, scaling and flipping images can be done without a hassle.

Exporting the resulting images via an HTTP upload or FTP should raise no difficulty whatsoever, and printing them is a straightforward process too.

Given the extensive set of features csXImage puts at your disposal, the developer has also come up with a comprehensive user manual you can resort to in order get a better grip on the OCX control’s capabilities.