In this chapter we will see some ImageMagick utilities that are a little different from the ones we have already studied. On the other hand, by referring to the previous workshops you'll see there is always at least one image processing function that has been performed during those workshops. We used convert, mogrify, compose, and montage for tasks like:
Creating a new canvas
Drawing images and shapes, and inserting text
Format conversion
Mixing and combining files and drawings together
Arranging files with customized settings in a new image file
The utilities that will be introduced in this chapter are different because their main task is input/output file management, and retrieving detailed info about images and ImageMagick environmental settings.
In this chapter we will see how to use display for showing the result of any image processing on an X window and we will see how to capture image data from a part of the screen or a window with the help of import...