ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, and Compose Images
Description: ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Photo CD. With ImageMagick you can create GIFs 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.
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  ImageMagickTM 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, 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 working 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

> Click on the Wizard to immediately go to the download area.

> You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command line using the ImageMagick tools convert, mogrify, montage, composite, 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 discussed in detail. Just follow the appropriate link on this page.

> 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 OS/2. 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.

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
>   Recent Changes
>   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 programming interfaces (APIs):

>   C Language: the core programming interface to ImageMagick
>   Perl Language: PerlMagick provides an object-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick
>   C++ Language: Magick++ provides an object-oriented C++ interface to ImageMagick
>   Python Language: PythonMagick provides an object-oriented Python interface to ImageMagick
>   Java Language: JMagick provides an object-oriented Java interface to ImageMagick
>   Macintosh Scripting Interface: A scripting interface for the Mac

> In addition to the ImageMagick programming APIs, there are several projects to provide adaptation interfaces for other environments:

> > GDK Tool kit 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:

>   ImageMagick Studio
>   WebMagick Image Navigator
>   Common Desktop Environment Screen Saver
>   Motif GUI for Animate
>   3-D Web Screamers

ImageMagick Sponsors

> We want to thank these sponsors of the ImageMagick project:

> | The place for pictures online.
> | Protect your sensitive business information across the Internet.
> | Technology provider for e-Paper solutions.

> You or your company may want to sponsor the ImageMagick project as well.

Image manipulation software that works like magic.