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- Introduction to ImageMagick
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- ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
- It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100)
- including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG,
- and TIFF. 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 Bézier curves.
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- 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: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand
- (C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java),
- L-Magick (Lisp), NMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet (.NET), PascalMagick (Pascal),
- PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick
- (Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface,
- use ImageMagick to modify or create images dynamically and automagically.
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- ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution
- or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its
- license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.
- Features and Capabilities
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- Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
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- * Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG
- to JPEG)
- * Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image
- * Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
- * Draw: add shapes or text to an image
- * Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
- * Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image
- * Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images
- * Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image
- * Image identification: describe the format and properties of an image
- * Composite: overlap one image over another
- * Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas
- * Motion picture support: read and write the common image formats used in
- digital film work
- * Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image
- channels
- * High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the wide range of
- * intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct
- sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows
- * Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image
- sizes
- * Encipher or decipher an image: convert ordinary images into
- unintelligible gibberish and back again
- * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and many
- internal algorithms are already threaded to take advantage of speed-ups
- offered by the dual and quad-core processor technologies
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- For more information, see http://www.imagemagick.org.
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- Examples of Imagemagick Usage, http://www.imagemagick.org/usage/,
- shows how to use ImageMagick from the command-line to accomplish any
- of these tasks and much more. Also, see Fred's ImageMagick Scripts,
- http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/, a plethora of command-line scripts
- that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal,
- and color manipulations.
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