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                        Open image from an external URL
Is it possible to open an image from an external source, e.g. an API and then resize it.
I agree, needing this too
This would be outside scope of this library imo.
Just use file_get_contents(), or curl, or guzzle, then pass onto gregwar.
To download a file, you should use a proper library instead of using just file_get_contents. Think about authentications. From my point of view, it's not purposeful to implement such this kind of library in this package.
I would suggest to create a class like:
class DownloadAndDoStuff {
    private function _download(string $remote_image_url, string $local_path = null) {
        if(null === $local_path ) {
            $local_path = dirname(__DIR__);
        }
        $file = curl_file_create($local_path);
        $curl = new anlutro\cURL\cURL;
        $response = $curl->rawPost($remote_image_url, ['file' => $file]);
        return $local_path;
    }
    public function resizeImage(string $remote_image_url) {
        if(!isset($this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url])) {
            $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url] = $this->_download($remote_image_url);
        }
        // File should be here: $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url]  do whatever you want
    }
    public function cropImage(string $remote_image_url) {
        if(!isset($this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url])) {
            $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url] = $this->_download($remote_image_url);
        }
        // File should be here: $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url]  do whatever you want
    }
    public function flipImage(string $remote_image_url) {
        if(!isset($this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url])) {
            $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url] = $this->_download($remote_image_url);
        }
        // File should be here: $this->remoteFiles[$remote_image_url]  do whatever you want
    }
}
see https://github.com/anlutro/php-curl for more