36.1 ImageMagick
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ImageMagick is a command line tool for transforming images. By combining digital image processing operations as a series of commands it provides a powerful ability to build image processing pipelines which can then be easily repeated. In contrast, graphical interfaces can sometimes become a burden, often requiring fiddly and manual interactions that do not have the precision and repeatability offered by ImageMagick.
ImageMagick provides the following commands:
- animate
- compare
- composite
- conjure
- convert: process the image and/or convert between formats;
- display: view the image
- identify
- import
- mogrify: process the image in place - list the image last on the command line;
- montage
Common operations include resize, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.
The basic command line will look something like the following which takes an input image file, resizes it to 25% of the original size, converts black to white, and writes the resulting image to the output file:
ImageMagick Tricks by Sohail
Salehi. 230 pages published by PACKT Publishing, 2006, ISBN
1904811868, available from
http://www.packtpub.com/imagemagick/book, is a useful guide to
using ImageMagick. It provides a
tutorial like presentation illustrating many trick and tips.
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