What is a fantastic image processing library for java that does levels, colour balance, saturation, sharpness, noise reduction and compression?

Question

What is a fantastic image processing library for java that does levels, colour balance, saturation, sharpness, noise reduction and compression? I'm looking for something that is easy to learn, and has a high-level API... not something low level, unless it's the only option.

Answer 1

I don't know if it satisfies all your requirements, but JMagick is a good image processing library for Java - it's an interface to the well-known ImageMagick image processing tools.

Answer 2

I think JAI provides pretty good coverage of features, but it might not fall into easy-to-use category.