Identify is one of the special utilities in ImageMagick because, unlike other utilities, it works on image characteristics and specifications. There is a lot of helpful information that identify can retrieve from an image and display at the command line.
Beside image characteristics it can find out if an image is corrupted and report it. Moreover there is an option named -list (which can be found in other utilities as
well) that helps us to find out more information about the ImageMagick software installed on our machine.
For running identify use the following scheme:
identify [options ...] image[ [options ...] file ... ]
The simplest way to get a list of identify options is typing identify at the command line (without any parameters):
-authenticate value decrypt image with this password -channel type apply option to select image channels -crop geometry cut out a rectangular region of the image -debug events display copious debugging information -define...