ImageMagick(1)						      General Commands Manual						    ImageMagick(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       convert input-file [options] output-file

OVERVIEW

       ImageMagick(R),	is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of for-
       mats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX. 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
       B['e]zier curves.

       ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you can freely use, copy,  modify,  and
       distribute. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.

       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: MagickCore (C), MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java),
       L-Magick  (Lisp),  PascalMagick	(Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick
       (Tcl/TK). With a language interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create images automagically and dynamically.

       ImageMagick includes a number of command-line utilities for manipulating images. Most of you are probably accustom to editing images one at
       a  time with a graphical user interface (GUI) with such programs as gimp or Photoshop. However, a GUI is not always convenient. Suppose you
       want to process an image dynamically from a web script or you want to apply the same operations to many images or repeat a specific  opera-
       tion  at different times to the same or different image. For these types of operations, the command-line image processing utility is appro-
       priate.

       In the paragraphs below, find a short description for each command-line tool.Click on the program name to get details on the program  usage
       and  a list of command-line options that alters how the program performs. If you are just getting acquianted with ImageMagick, start at the
       top of the list, the convert program, and work your way dowm. Also be sure to peruse Anthony Thyssen's tutorial on how to  use  ImageMagick
       utilities to convert, compose, or edit images from the command-line.

       convert

	      convert  between	image  formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
	      more.

       identify

	      describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files.

       mogrify

	      resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the original image
	      file, whereas, convert writes to a different image file.

       composite

	      overlaps one image over another.

       montage

	      create  a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionall adorned with a
	      border, frame, image name, and more.

       compare

	      mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an image and its reconstruction..

       stream

	      is a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components of the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage formats.
	      It writes the pixel components as they are read from the input image a row at a time making stream desirable when working with large
	      images or when you require raw pixel components.

       display

	      displays an image or image sequence on any X server.

       animate

	      animates an image sequence on any X server.

       import

	      saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or  any
	      rectangular portion of the screen.

       conjure

	      interprets and executes scripts written in the Magick Scripting Language (MSL).

       For   more   information   about   the	ImageMagick,   point   your   browser	to  file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.4/index.html	or
       http://www.imagemagick.org/.

SEE-ALSO
       convert(1), identify(1), composite(1), montage(1), compare(1), display(1), animate(1), import(1), conjure(1), quantize(5), miff(4)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright   (C)	 1999-2007   ImageMagick   Studio   LLC.   Additional	copyrights   and   licenses   apply   to   this   software,    see
       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.4/www/license.php or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php

ImageMagick						     Date: 2005/03/01 01:00:00						    ImageMagick(1)