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ImageMagick Tricks

By : Sohail Salehi
Book Image

ImageMagick Tricks

By: Sohail Salehi

Overview of this book

<p>The book is packed with interesting and fun examples. We had a lot of fun coming up with cool ways to demonstrate ImageMagick's power, and we're sure you'll have fun learning how to create them.<br /><br />Although the printed book is in black and white, there is a full colour PDF of the screenshots freely available that includes all of the images in the book. Use it to see exactly what the ImageMagick effects look like in colour, or browse through it and see just what you'll learn to do with this book.<br /><br />ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images using text-based commands. The commands can be issued from the command line, but more often will be included in web or desktop applications &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; carrying out complex image-manipulation tasks in response to the user's input.<br /><br />ImageMagick is a popular way for generating images on-the-fly in web pages, whether it's generating thumbnails from a large image, or creating complex combinations of images, text, and effects chosen by a visitor or the web site's creator.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ImageMagick Tricks
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
5
Identify, Display, and Import
Index

Summary


In this chapter we learned about several aspects and usages of ImageMagick options in the Convert utility. We covered drawing primitive commands, defining color and painting methods, defining text characteristics and annotating images, various deformations and translations, and finally some artistic effects. We also covered the Mogrify command. These commands have been studied during several workshops. Although we cannot cover every single option in this book, you should now have plenty of ideas for your own experiments!

In the next chapter, another two powerful ImageMagick utilities, Composite and Montage will be studied and we will see how to use them with Convert to create complex graphics.