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Unix Software: Graphics: ImageMagick

Description

ImageMagick is a suite of image processing programs. It's various command-line tools can disply, resize, reshape, transform, and translate most pertinate image file formats. ImageMagick is highly popular on the various Unix platforms because each feature of the package can be accessed from the command line and thus used in automated scripts and other programs. Most users would prefer to use Photoshop for manual image processing, but ImageMagick does have a fairly decent GUI for most everyday tasks.

ImageMagick also provides APIs for Perl, C/C++, and Java, allowing its tools to be accessed directly by programmers in those languages.

Location

/usr/site/ImageMagick/.

Commands

convert 
	[options] inputfile outputfile

- convert an image in one file format to another.

mogrify
	[options] file [[options] file1 file2 ....]

- transform an image or sequence of images.

montage 
       [options ...] file [ [ options ...] file ...]
	output_file

- create a composite image from a series of separate images.

combine
	[ options ... ] imagecomposite [ mask ] combined

- Combine images to create new images.
identify file [ file ... ] - reports the format and characteristics of image files.

display
	[ options ...] file [options...]file

- graphically displays and manipulates images. This is what most users will want to use.

animate
	[ options ...] file [ [ options ...] file ...]

- display a series of images in sequence

Documentation