What is ImageMagick

  ImageMagick TM is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, Photo CD, 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. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, and PERL-based programming interfaces.
  Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

  Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
  Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
  Create a montage of image thumbnails
  Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
  Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
  Create a composite image by combining several separate images
  Draw shapes or text on an image
  Decorate an image with a border or frame
  Describe the format and characteristics of an image

You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command line using the ImageMagick tools convert, mogrify, montage, combine, or identify. Use the display program to interactively manipulate your images or animate an image sequence from a graphical panel. Finally you have access to the various image manipulation methods directly from your favorite application development environment: Perl, C++, C, or Java. These programs and much more are explained by following the links from this page or read the ImageMagick Users Guide.

ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix. system and Linux. It also runs under Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Macintosh, VMS, and OS2. See the install guide for compiling instructions. Pre-compiled binaries are available for some of the more popular operating systems. The entire source and binary distribution is also available for a limited time on CD.

Developers will probably be interested in the latest source from the ImageMagick anonymous CVS server.

You can subscribe to the mailing list. Here you can ask questions and get advice from other ImageMagick users and see announcements of bug fixes, enhancements, and new releases.

ImageMagick is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio, a nonprofit organization. ImageMagick is available for free, may be used to support both open and proprietary applications, and may be redistributed without fee.

The ImageMagick logo is copyright Pineapple USA Inc. It is freely distributable, however, modifications to the logo are not permitted.

Commercial users of ImageMagick may be interested in becoming an ImageMagick sponsor.

How Can I Find Out More About ImageMagick

  For detailed information about the ImageMagick command line utilities, select from these sources:

  ImageMagick Tools
  Frequently Asked Questions
  Magick Image File Format
  ImageMagick's Color Reduction Algorithm
  What's New
  Changes in Version 5.2.3
  How You Can Help
Get the ImageMagick source or binary distributions from here:
  ImageMagick Download Sites
  Concurrent Version System
You can access ImageMagick capabilities from a number of application interfaces:
  Magick Application Programming Interface
  Object-oriented Perl Interface to ImageMagick
  Object-oriented C++ Interface to ImageMagick
  Object-oriented Python Interface to ImageMagick
  Object-oriented Java Interface to ImageMagick
  Macintosh Scripting Interface to ImageMagick
  GDK Toolkit Interface to ImageMagick
  ImageMagick Integration Project
ImageMagick Defects:
  Defect Tracking System
Books that Discuss ImageMagick:
  Graphics Programming with Perl
  Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software
Here are a few miscellaneous uses of ImageMagick:
  Common Desktop Environment Screen Saver
  Motif GUI for Animate
  3-D Web Screamers

Related Sites

Here is a list of ImageMagick related sites that you might want to visit:
  ImageMagick Studio
  WebMagick Image Navigator
  IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
  The Bitmap Information Tool
  Tripod's Banner Builder
  The Banner Generator
  Microsoft Vision SDK
  Anthony's Icon Library
  Equinox

Image manipulation software that works like magic.