From 9d566815605a680cd5c5ab6f2ba3abe923587b92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Fogleman <fogleman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:06:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] LoadImage

---
 README.md           |  1 +
 examples/ellipse.go |  2 +-
 util.go             | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dc93813..aabdd0b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ Sometimes you just don't want to write these yourself.
 ```go
 Radians(degrees float64) float64
 Degrees(radians float64) float64
+LoadImage(path string) (image.Image, error)
 LoadPNG(path string) (image.Image, error)
 SavePNG(path string, im image.Image) error
 ```
diff --git a/examples/ellipse.go b/examples/ellipse.go
index bb46543..e0de9f4 100644
--- a/examples/ellipse.go
+++ b/examples/ellipse.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ func main() {
 		dc.Fill()
 		dc.Pop()
 	}
-	if im, err := gg.LoadPNG("examples/gopher.png"); err == nil {
+	if im, err := gg.LoadImage("examples/gopher.png"); err == nil {
 		dc.DrawImageAnchored(im, S/2, S/2, 0.5, 0.5)
 	}
 	dc.SavePNG("out.png")
diff --git a/util.go b/util.go
index 4f1b6c0..62577f5 100644
--- a/util.go
+++ b/util.go
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ func Degrees(radians float64) float64 {
 	return radians * 180 / math.Pi
 }
 
+func LoadImage(path string) (image.Image, error) {
+	file, err := os.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+	im, _, err := image.Decode(file)
+	return im, err
+}
+
 func LoadPNG(path string) (image.Image, error) {
 	file, err := os.Open(path)
 	if err != nil {