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A_Thyssen says:
ImageMagick Examples - A Review  
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written over 13 years ago

What is ImageMagick? A no holds barred summary

ImageMagick is designed for batch processing of images. That is, allow you to create more complex methods and techniques in a script (shell, dos, perl, PHP, etc) so that you can then apply the image processing operations to many images, or as part of a sub-system of some other tool, such as a web application, video processing tool, panorama generator, and so on. It is not a GUI image editor.

ImageMagick is first of all an image-to-image converter. It was what it ws originally designed to do. That is it will convert an image in just about any image format (tell us if it can't) to any other image format.

But it is also a library of Image Processing Algorithms. These can be access via the command line, and shell/dos scripts, which is what these example pages are specifically about, or via a large number of programming languages, such as C, C++, Perl, Ruby, PHP, etc, etc, etc. (see ImageMagick API's)

Speed was however never a major feature, more the quality of its image results. That is not to say that it can't transform images in a reasonable time, but it is not blindingly fast. Because of this it can be slow for some processing operations, especially in its attempts to compress images into image formats that have limited capability.

ImageMagick however concerns itself mainly with images in the form of a 'raster' or "rectangular array of pixels". It will handle 'vector' image formats like Postscript and PDF, but at the cost of converting those images into a 'raster', and generating a vector image wrapper around a raster image. As a result vector images are often processed badly in the default case, but specific options can be used to improve this situation. See, A word about Vector Image formats.

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A_Thyssen says:
ImageMagick Examples - A Review  
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written over 13 years ago

What is ImageMagick? A no holds barred summary

ImageMagick is designed for batch processing of images. That is, allow you to create more complex methods and techniques in a script (shell, dos, perl, PHP, etc) so that you can then apply the image processing operations to many images, or as part of a sub-system of some other tool, such as a web application, video processing tool, panorama generator, and so on. It is not a GUI image editor.

ImageMagick is first of all an image-to-image converter. It was what it ws originally designed to do. That is it will convert an image in just about any image format (tell us if it can't) to any other image format.

But it is also a library of Image Processing Algorithms. These can be access via the command line, and shell/dos scripts, which is what these example pages are specifically about, or via a large number of programming languages, such as C, C++, Perl, Ruby, PHP, etc, etc, etc. (see ImageMagick API's)

Speed was however never a major feature, more the quality of its image results. That is not to say that it can't transform images in a reasonable time, but it is not blindingly fast. Because of this it can be slow for some processing operations, especially in its attempts to compress images into image formats that have limited capability.

ImageMagick however concerns itself mainly with images in the form of a 'raster' or "rectangular array of pixels". It will handle 'vector' image formats like Postscript and PDF, but at the cost of converting those images into a 'raster', and generating a vector image wrapper around a raster image. As a result vector images are often processed badly in the default case, but specific options can be used to improve this situation. See, A word about Vector Image formats.

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Denilson Sá says:
Good tools, awful documentation  
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written almost 16 years ago

I guess basically all advanced users have used one of the imagemagick tools at least a few times (convert, identify, import, display...), and I guess all of them share the same feeling: the tool is great and very powerful, but lacks a good documentation.

Anyone who has ever tried to seriously use 'convert' has undoubtly spent a lot of time trying to find *some* documentation. Eventually, a tutorial page is found via Google, but the example in that tutorial might not work (probably because that tutorial is outdated). Some time later, finally the official documentation at ImageMagick's site is found, but it doesn't mean this documentation is easy to use.

Eventually, people either learn a 'magick' obscure command-line that does the trick, or they just stop wasting time trying to figure out how to use 'convert' and do what they need using any other software.

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