title: Which library should I use for server-side image manipulation on Node.JS?
body: <p>I found a quite <a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-graphics" rel="noreferrer">large list of available libraries</a> on Node.JS wiki but I'm not sure which of those are more mature and provide better performance. Basically I want to do the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>load some images to a server from external sources</li>
  <li>put them onto one big canvas</li>
  <li>crop and mask them a bit</li>
  <li>apply a filter or two</li>
  <li>Resize the final image and give a link to it</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Big plus if the node package works on both Linux <em>and Windows</em>.</p>