I am a newbie and i would like to give artistic effects to the images such as photocopy , blur ,glow edge, mosaic bubble ,pencil sketch ,marker , glass effect,paint brush,glow diffused effect programatically?
I want to implement it and any input is appreciated. The following link depicts what i want to do exactly...
I believe that these effects are implemented in the GIMP.
The source code is available online http://www.gimp.org/source/ This may help you see how such algorithms are implemented.
You should check OpenCV, it will make your life easier. It is aimed at real-time computer vision, Not really what you are after, but it has a lot of useful functionality (eg. opening/saving different image formats) and standard image operations.
Matlab/octave is also a good tool to get feeling with image processing algorithms.