image/platimg - platform neutral image I/O utilities
Implementations for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, Exif, ICO, WMF, and EMF formats where available. Returns pixel matrix in ARGB (Alpha most significant) integer format. Expects ARGB, or triples of RGB in any axis of rank 3 array. Good for glpixels. Uses GDI+, Core Graphics (Quartz), The gdk-pixbuf Library from GTK+.
Authors
OlegKobchenko, see also http://olegykj.sourceforge.net/