ImageMagick - Image Conversion, Editing, and Composition

What is ImageMagick

ImageMagick^TM is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed working the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, and PERL-based programming interfaces.

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)

Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image

Create a montage of image thumbnails

Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web

Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence

Create a composite image by combining several separate images

Draw shapes or text on an image

Decorate an image with a border or frame

Describe the format and characteristics of an image

You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command line using the ImageMagick tools convert, mogrify, montage, combine, or identify. Use the display program to interactively manipulate your images or animate an image sequence from a graphical panel. Finally you have access to the various image manipulation methods directly from your favorite application development environment: Perl, C++, C, or Java. These programs, and much more, are discussed in detail. Just follow the appropriate link on this page.

ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix system and Linux. It also runs under Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Macintosh, VMS, and OS/2. See the install guide for compiling instructions. Pre compiled binaries are available for some of the more popular operating systems. The entire source and binary distribution is also available for a limited time on CD.

Developers will probably be interested in the latest source from the ImageMagick anonymous CVS server.

You can subscribe to the mailing list. Here you can ask questions and get advice from other ImageMagick users and see announcements of bug fixes, enhancements, and new releases.

ImageMagick is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio, a nonprofit organization. ImageMagick is available for free, may be used to support both open and proprietary applications, and may be redistributed without fee.

The ImageMagick logo is copyright Pineapple USA Inc. It is freely distributable, however, modifications to the logo are not permitted.

How Can I Find Out More About ImageMagick

For detailed information about the ImageMagick command line utilities, select from these sources:

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