1ImageMagick(1)              General Commands Manual             ImageMagick(1)
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NAME

6       ImageMagick  -  is a free software suite for the creation, modification
7       and display of bitmap images.
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SYNOPSIS

10       convert input-file [options] output-file
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OVERVIEW

13       ImageMagick®, is a software suite to create, edit, and  compose  bitmap
14       images.  It  can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats
15       (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG,  PDF,  PhotoCD,  TIFF,
16       and  DPX.  Use  ImageMagick  to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale,
17       shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various  special
18       effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.
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20       ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distri‐
21       bution or as source code that you can freely  use,  copy,  modify,  and
22       distribute.  Its  license  is  compatible  with the GPL. It runs on all
23       major operating systems.
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25       The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command
26       line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite
27       programming language. Choose from  these  interfaces:  MagickCore  (C),
28       MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java), L-Magick
29       (Lisp), PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl),  MagickWand  for  PHP
30       (PHP),  PythonMagick  (Python),  RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK).
31       With a language interface, use ImageMagick to modify or  create  images
32       automagically and dynamically.
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34       ImageMagick  includes a number of command-line utilities for manipulat‐
35       ing images. Most of you are probably accustom to editing images one  at
36       a time with a graphical user interface (GUI) with such programs as gimp
37       or Photoshop. However, a GUI is not always convenient. Suppose you want
38       to  process an image dynamically from a web script or you want to apply
39       the same operations to many images or repeat a  specific  operation  at
40       different  times  to  the  same  or different image. For these types of
41       operations, the command-line image processing utility is appropriate.
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43       In the paragraphs below, find a short description for each command-line
44       tool.Click  on the program name to get details on the program usage and
45       a list of command-line options that alters how the program performs. If
46       you  are  just getting acquianted with ImageMagick, start at the top of
47       the list, the convert program, and work your way dowm. Also be sure  to
48       peruse  Anthony  Thyssen's tutorial on how to use ImageMagick utilities
49       to convert, compose, or edit images from the command-line.
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53              convert between image formats as well as resize an image,  blur,
54              crop,  despeckle,  dither,  draw  on, flip, join, re-sample, and
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59              describes the format and characteristics of one  or  more  image
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64              resize  an  image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip,
65              join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the  original
66              image file, whereas, convert writes to a different image file.
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70              overlaps one image over another.
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74              create  a  composite image by combining several separate images.
75              The images are tiled on the composite  image  optionall  adorned
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80              mathematically  and  visually annotate the difference between an
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86              is a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components  of
87              the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage for‐
88              mats. It writes the pixel components as they are read  from  the
89              input image a row at a time making stream desirable when working
90              with large images or when you require raw pixel components.
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95              displays an image or image sequence on any X server.
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99              animates an image sequence on any X server.
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103              saves any visible window on an X server and  outputs  it  as  an
104              image  file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen,
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109              interprets and executes scripts written in the Magick  Scripting
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112       For  more  information  about  the  ImageMagick,  point your browser to
113       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.6.4/index.html                   or
114       http://www.imagemagick.org/.
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SEE ALSO

117       convert(1),  identify(1),  composite(1),  montage(1),  compare(1), dis‐
118       play(1), animate(1), import(1), conjure(1), quantize(5), miff(4)
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122       Copyright (C) 1999-2010 ImageMagick Studio LLC.  Additional  copyrights
123       and       licenses      apply      to      this      software,      see
124       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.6.4/www/license.html             or
125       http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
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