simplicity of wxImage, you will do all kinds of image manipulation
with this class, this includes loading images in various formats
such as GIF, TIFF or JPEG (these and some more are supported by wxWindows
-without further work), analyizing the image in terms of colour usage etc
+without further work), analyzing the image in terms of colour usage etc
and applying filters to the image for higher-level manipulation, such
as blurring, sharpening etc.