Intervention Image is a PHP image processing library that provides a simple and expressive way to create, edit, and compose images. It comes with a universal interface for the two most popular PHP image manipulation extensions. You can choose between the GD library or Imagick as the base layer for all operations.

• Simple interface for common image editing tasks
• Interchangeable driver architecture
• Support for animated images
• Framework-agnostic
• PSR-12 compliant

You can easily install this library using Composer. Simply request the package with the following command:

composer require intervention/image

Learn the basics on how to use Intervention Image and more with the official documentation.

use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;
// create image manager with desired driver
$manager = new ImageManager(
    new Intervention\Image\Drivers\Gd\Driver()
);
// open an image file
$image = $manager->read('images/example.gif');
// resize image instance
$image->resize(height: 300);
// insert a watermark
$image->place('images/watermark.png');
// encode edited image
$encoded = $image->toJpg();
// save encoded image
$encoded->save('images/example.jpg');

Before you begin with the installation make sure that your server environment supports the following requirements.

• PHP >= 8.1
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Image Processing PHP Extension

Depending on your environment Intervention Image lets you choose between different image processing extensions.

• GD Library
• Imagick PHP extension
• libvips

If you discover any security related issues, please email oliver@intervention.io directly.

This library is developed and maintained by Oliver Vogel

Thanks to the community of contributors who have helped to improve this project.

Intervention Image is licensed under the MIT License.