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ImageMagick 5.5.6

Available on the computers: Dante, Homer, Ovid, and Vergil

ImageMagick is a package for display and interactive manipulation of images (including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF). With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.

Using the Software
You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command line using these ImageMagick tools:

  • composite - Composites images to create new images
  • identify - Describe the format and characteristics of an image
  • mogrify - Transforms an image or a sequence of images. These transforms include image scaling, image rotation, color reduction, and others
  • montage - Creates a composite image by combining several separate images
Use the display program to interactively manipulate your images or animate an image sequence from a graphical panel:
  • animate - Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
  • display - Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
ImageMagick also provides a powerful set of command line utilities:
  • conjure - Interprets the Magick Scripting Language an XML-based language to convert, edit, and compose images
  • convert - Convert an image from one format to another
  • import - Capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to a file
Finally you have access to the various image manipulation methods directly from the most popular application development environment: Perl , C++, C , Python, or Java.

Documentation
For most the of ImageMagick utilities, view documentation via the www by selecting the name of the utility listed in the "Using the Software" section.

Within a display session, a Help menu is available (press <left> mouse button for the commands menu and then select the Help button).

To view the man pages for the individual ImageMagick utilities listed above, at the system prompt type:

% man util

where util is one of the utilities listed above (ex: man animate).

Technical Support
Help is available from UW Technology. Send a question to help@u.washington.edu if you need help with this software.

Read the ImageMagick Frequently Asked Questions.