Documentation v0.2.0

Getting started

Install picturium with one command, keep it up to date, and transform your first image.

• Install
• Upgrade
• Configure
• Run with Docker manually
• +1 more

Request model

Learn how picturium reads, verifies, caches, and serves a request.

• URL grammar
• Signed URLs
• Caching & force
• HTTP caching
• +2 more

Configuration & operations

Configure, deploy, monitor, and tune the server.

• Config file
• Environment overrides
• Cache tuning
• Concurrency
• +1 more

Sizing & layout

Fit an image into a requested box.

• Width, height, aspect ratio
• Fit modes
• Gravity
• Scaling: dpr, scale, upsize
• +4 more

Cropping

Cut a region out of the source before sizing.

• The crop parameter
• Smart crop

Filters & effects

Combine several colour and image adjustments in one filter= value.

• Tone & colour
• Presets
• Blur, sharpen, pixelate
• Palette

Output format & quality

Choose an output format and balance image quality against file size.

• Format selection
• Quality
• Encoder options
• Metadata
• +2 more

Animation & video

Keep, flatten, or adjust animated images and extract video frames or clips.

• Animated images
• The anim parameter
• Video frames & clips

Documents & vectors

Render pages from PDF, SVG, Office, and vector-art files.

• Page selection
• SVG
• PDF
• Office documents
• +2 more

Watermarking

Overlay an image or text mark.

• watermark parameter
• Config defaults
• Behaviour

PHP library

Use picturium in your PHP applications, including your favourite frameworks.