Image Magick


>What is ImageMagick

ImageMagickTM 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, Photo CD, 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 work in 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 explained by following the links from this page or read the ImageMagick Users Guide.

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 OS2. 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.

Commercial users of ImageMagick may be interested in becoming an ImageMagick sponsor.

>How Can I Find Out More About ImageMagick
For detailed information about the ImageMagick command line utilities, select from these sources:
* ImageMagick Tools
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Magick Image File Format
* ImageMagick's Color Reduction Algorithm
* What's New
* Changes in Version 5.2.6
* How You Can Help
 
Get the ImageMagick source or binary distributions from here:
* ImageMagick Download Sites
* Concurrent Version System
 
You can access ImageMagick capabilities from a number of application interfaces:
* Magick Application Programming Interface
* Object-oriented Perl Interface to ImageMagick
* Object-oriented C++ Interface to ImageMagick
* Object-oriented Python Interface to ImageMagick
* Object-oriented Java Interface to ImageMagick
* Macintosh Scripting Interface to ImageMagick
* GDK Toolkit Interface to ImageMagick
* ImageMagick Integration Project
 
ImageMagick Defects:
* Defect Tracking System
 
Books that discuss ImageMagick:
* Graphics Programming with Perl
* Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software
 
Here are a few miscellaneous uses of ImageMagick:
* Common Desktop Environment Screen Saver
* Motif GUI for Animate
* 3-D Web Screamers
>Related Sites
Here is a list of ImageMagick related sites that you might want to visit:
* ImageMagick Studio
* WebMagick Image Navigator
* IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
* The Bitmap Information Tool
* Tripod's Banner Builder
* The Banner Generator
* Microsoft Vision SDK
* Anthony's Icon Library
* Equinox

MailImage manipulation software that works like magic.