ImageMagick(1) ImageMagick ImageMagick(1)
Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00
NAME
ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation, modification
and display of bitmap images.
SYNOPSIS
convert input-file [options] output-file
OVERVIEW
ImageMagick[rg], is a software suite to create, edit, and compose
bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of
formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD,
TIFF, and DPX. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate,
scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various
special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and
B\['e]zier curves.
ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary
distribution or as source code that you can freely use, copy, modify,
and distribute. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all
major operating systems.
The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the
command line or you can use the features from programs written in your
favorite programming language. Choose from these interfaces:
MagickCore (C), MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), Magick++ (C++), JMagick
(Java), L-Magick (Lisp), PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl),
MagickWand for PHP (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), RMagick (Ruby), or
TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface, use ImageMagick to
modify or create images automagically and dynamically.
ImageMagick includes a number of command-line utilities for
manipulating images. Most of you are probably accustom to editing
images one at a time with a graphical user interface (GUI) with such
programs as gimp or Photoshop. However, a GUI is not always
convenient. Suppose you want to process an image dynamically from a
web script or you want to apply the same operations to many images or
repeat a specific operation at different times to the same or
different image. For these types of operations, the command-line image
processing utility is appropriate.
In the paragraphs below, find a short description for each command-
line tool.Cl ick on the program name to get details on the program
usage and a list of comman d-line options that alters how the program
performs. If you are just getting acq uainted with ImageMagick, start
at the top of the list, the convert program, and
work your way down. Also be sure to peruse Anthony Thyssen's tutorial
on how to
use ImageMagick utilities to convert, compose, or edit images from
the command- line.
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convert
convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur,
crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
more.
identify
describes the format and characteristics of one or more image
files.
mogrify
resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip,
join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the original
image file, whereas, convert writes to a different image file.
composite
overlaps one image over another.
montage
create a composite image by combining several separate images.
The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned
with a border, frame, image name, and more.
compare
mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an
image and its reconstruction..
stream
is a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components of
the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage
formats. It writes the pixel components as they are read from the
input image a row at a time making stream desirable when working
with large images or when you require raw pixel components.
display
displays an image or image sequence on any X server.
animate
animates an image sequence on any X server.
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import
saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an
image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen,
or any rectangular portion of the screen.
conjure
interprets and executes scripts written in the Magick Scripting
Language (MSL).
For more information about the ImageMagick, point your browser to
file:///usr/local/share/doc/ImageMagick-6/index.html or
http://www.imagemagick.org/.
SEE ALSO
convert(1), identify(1), composite(1), montage(1), compare(1),
display(1), animate(1), import(1), conjure(1), quantize(5), miff(4)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights
and licenses apply to this software, see
file:///usr/local/share/doc/ImageMagick-6/www/license.html or
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
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