ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose
bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through
shell commands as well as through a graphical interface.
The software can read, convert and write images in a huge
variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,
PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale,
shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special
effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
Features include:
- Format conversion: convert an image from one format to
another (e.g. PNG to JPEG)
- Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image
- Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
- Draw: add shapes or text to an image
- Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
- Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image
- Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of
images
- Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic
text in an image
- Image identification: describe the format and properties of
an image
- Composite: overlap one image over another
- Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas
- Motion picture support: read and write the common image
formats used in digital film work
- Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an
image or image channels
- High dynamic-range images:
accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real
scenes ranging from the brightest direct sunlight to the deepest
darkest shadows
- Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and
giga-pixel image sizes
- Encipher or decipher an image: convert ordinary images into
unintelligible gibberish and back again
- Threads of execution support:
ImageMagick is thread safe and many internal algorithms are already
threaded to take advantage of speed-ups offered by the dual and
quad-core processor technologies
- Take screenshots using the import command
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