diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fc94d39..d1554b0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 [package]
 name = "fimg"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.4.1"
 authors = ["bend-n <bend.n@outlook.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "fast image operations"
 repository = "https://github.com/bend-n/fimg"
+exclude = ["src/cat.png", "src/small_cat.png", "benches/"]
 
 [dependencies]
 png = { version = "0.17", features = ["unstable"], optional = true }
diff --git a/src/cat.png b/src/cat.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..361804d
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diff --git a/src/drawing/box.rs b/src/drawing/box.rs
index 294569a..15f183f 100644
--- a/src/drawing/box.rs
+++ b/src/drawing/box.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! Box<cat>
+//! `Box<cat>`
 use crate::Image;
 
 impl<const CHANNELS: usize> Image<&mut [u8], CHANNELS> {
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index e72ea42..9de0643 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ mod affine;
 pub mod builder;
 mod drawing;
 mod overlay;
+pub mod scale;
 pub use overlay::{Overlay, OverlayAt};
 
 /// like assert!(), but causes undefined behaviour at runtime when the condition is not met.
@@ -361,6 +362,29 @@ macro_rules! save {
     };
 }
 
+impl<const CHANNELS: usize> Image<Vec<u8>, CHANNELS> {
+    #[cfg(feature = "save")]
+    /// Open a PNG image
+    pub fn open(f: impl AsRef<std::path::Path>) -> Self {
+        let p = std::fs::File::open(f).unwrap();
+        let r = std::io::BufReader::new(p);
+        let dec = png::Decoder::new(r);
+        let mut reader = dec.read_info().unwrap();
+        let mut buf = vec![0; reader.output_buffer_size()];
+        let info = reader.next_frame(&mut buf).unwrap();
+        use png::ColorType::*;
+        match info.color_type {
+            Indexed | Grayscale => {
+                assert_eq!(CHANNELS, 1, "indexed | grayscale requires one channel")
+            }
+            Rgb => assert_eq!(CHANNELS, 3, "rgb requires three channels"),
+            Rgba => assert_eq!(CHANNELS, 4, "rgba requires four channels"),
+            GrayscaleAlpha => assert_eq!(CHANNELS, 2, "ya requires two channels"),
+        }
+        Self::build(info.width, info.height).buf(buf)
+    }
+}
+
 save!(3 == Rgb("RGB"));
 save!(4 == Rgba("RGBA"));
 save!(2 == GrayscaleAlpha("YA"));
diff --git a/src/scale.rs b/src/scale.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ba614b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/scale.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+//! holds scaling operations, at current only the Nearest Neighbor
+use crate::Image;
+
+/// [Nearest Neighbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest-neighbor_interpolation) image scaling algorithm implementation.
+/// Use [`Nearest::scale`].
+pub struct Nearest;
+impl Nearest {
+    /// Resize a image.
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// `image` must be as big or bigger than `width`, `height.
+    pub unsafe fn scale<const N: usize>(
+        image: Image<&[u8], N>,
+        width: u32,
+        height: u32,
+    ) -> Image<Vec<u8>, N> {
+        let x_scale = image.width() as f32 / width as f32;
+        let y_scale = image.height() as f32 / height as f32;
+        let mut out = Image::alloc(width, height);
+        for y in 0..height {
+            for x in 0..width {
+                let x1 = ((x as f32 + 0.5) * x_scale).floor() as u32;
+                let y1 = ((y as f32 + 0.5) * y_scale).floor() as u32;
+                // SAFETY: i asked the caller to make sure its ok
+                let px = unsafe { image.pixel(x1, y1) };
+                // SAFETY: were looping over the width and height of out. its ok.
+                unsafe { out.set_pixel(x, y, px) };
+            }
+        }
+        out
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_nearest() {
+    let i = Image::<_, 3>::open("src/cat.png");
+    assert_eq!(
+        unsafe { Nearest::scale(i.as_ref(), 268, 178) }.buffer,
+        Image::<_, 3>::open("src/small_cat.png").buffer
+    );
+}
diff --git a/src/small_cat.png b/src/small_cat.png
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