Does Magick++ provide everything from the underlying API?

Question

Does Magick++ let you do everything that ImageMagick can do? A quick skim through the docs doesn't answer that question, and for example I couldn't find a Magick++ equivalent of MagickSelectiveBlurImage.

In case Magick++ is limited in that way, is it possible to e.g. use some methods from the C API to fill in the blanks? I.e. do the 2 APIs interoperate?

How about PythonMagick?

Answer 1

The Magick++ API has likely not kept up with ImageMagick API changes. The ImageMagick API is still available via a MagickLib namespace and if you study how the Magick++ Image class works, you will see that it is possible to use the C API and pass the result into Image. It might be possible to inherit from Magick++ Image and add new methods that way.

PythonMagick is based on the Magick++ API so it supports what Magick++ does.

Bob Friesenhahn (Magick++ author)