ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a free software package for creating and editing raster graphics. There may be more than 100 of the common image formats read, modify and write. In addition, images can be generated dynamically, so it is also used in the field of web applications.
ImageMagick is currently active worldwide developed by more than 30 master developers and independent contributors. The code itself is supported here by an organization called ImageMagick Studio LLC, roughly comparable to the Apache Software Foundation.
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- 3.2 See also
Operation
Command line
The ImageMagick package contains several utilities for the command line as well as an available for many programming languages, program library to use the functions available directly in a program. It is also particularly suitable for mass processing of images.
The dominated ImageMagick functions extend from joining several images about adding or creating simple forms and writing, distortion, resizing and rotating the images to known as GIMP and Adobe Photoshop filter functions such as blur, solarization, contrast adjustment or inversion.
The package provides a set of command line tools:
- Convert: is the most important tool of the collection. It can convert file formats, resize, blur, crop, denoise, dither, flip, rotate and more.
- Identify: gives a description of the format and characteristics of one or more graphic files.
- Mogrify: provides the same functions as convert, and it, in contrast to this the origin overwrites files with the result and does not write to a new file.
- Composite: two overlapping images.
- Montage: sets multiple images together into one.
- Compare: displays the differences between two graphics - as a report of a mathematical analysis and visual.
- Stream:
- Display: displays an image or image sequence on an X server.
- Import: created screenshots under X11. Thus, the function saves the graphical representation of an X server to a file - either the entire screen area, the area of a window or a defined rectangle.
- Conjure: interprets scripts in the Magick Scripting Language (MSL ) and executes it.
Graphical interface
The display or display command filename opens the graphical interface of the program in the X server and the access to the image become visible. In the main editing functions is then through the left mouse button to access. When processing the images from the command line, the image is not shown, the processing is correspondingly faster.
GraphicsMagick
GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, version 5.5.2, created in November 2002. Developers try for a more open development model, a constant user interface, more efficient programming and faster processing speed. GraphicsMagick provides improved support for images with high color depth and the one used in the film industry DPX format.
Some of the improvements were in turn taken over in ImageMagick.