In this chapter we learned that ImageMagick is an X11 image-processing package that can be widely used on many platforms.
The power of this application comes from its internal utilities. The most important ones are Display, Convert, Import, Conjure, Montage, Composite, Identify, Mogrify, and Animate.
There are some programming interfaces with ImageMagick that programmers can use for creating customized applications.
The programming interfaces that we are going to study in this book are PerlMagick, MagickWand, Magick++, and MagickWand for PHP.
In the next chapter we will study installing and configuring ImageMagick.