ImageMagick is a comprehensive suite of command-line tools for creating, converting, editing and composing bitmap images. Most operations can be automated in scripts or performed through an interactive graphical interface.
The software can read, convert and write images in a huge variety of formats (over 200) 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.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 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.
- Captures an X11 desktop, individual windows or selected regions using magick import; the import command does not provide native Wayland screenshot capture.
Website: imagemagick.org
Support:
Developer: Cristy and many contributors
License: ImageMagick License (compatible with GPL)
ImageMagick is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Batch Image Processors | |
|---|---|
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| Image Processing Libraries | |
|---|---|
| matplotlib | Python 2D plotting library |
| OpenCV | Library that includes several hundreds of computer vision algorithms |
| VIPS | Fast image processing library with low memory requirements |
| SciPy | Scientific Computing Tools for Python |
| Pillow | Fork of the Python Imaging Library |
| Pillow-SIMD | Highly optimized downstream Pillow fork |
| scikit-image | Collection of algorithms for image processing |
| Kornia | Differentiable computer vision library |
| ImageMagick | Uses multiple computational threads to increase performance |
| GraphicsMagick | Billed as the Swiss army knife of image processing. |
| GEGL | Generic Graphics Library |
| OpenImageIO | Library and utilities for reading, writing and processing image files |
| CImg | Lightweight C++ toolkit for developing image-processing applications |
| Mahotas | Library of fast computer vision algorithms |
| SimpleITK | Image analysis toolkit with a large number of components |
| Netpbm | Toolkit for manipulation of graphic images |
| LibGD | Library for the dynamic creation of images by developers |
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