ImageMagick - X11 Image Processing and Display Package

ImageMagick ^TM, version 4.2.7, 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.

Here is just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to GIF)

Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image

Create a montage of image tumbnails

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), interactively (display), from a Perl script (PerlMagick), with the C++ API (libMagick++), with the C API (libMagick), or from Java (JavaMagick).

ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix. system and Linux. It also runs under Windows NT, Windows 95, Macintosh, and VMS. See 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.

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.

Because ImageMagick is freeware, I am unwilling to certify that it is Y2K Compliant. However I am confident that it is. ImageMagick uses localtime to produce time-stamps for encoding PDF and Postscript output. It also uses system routines such as select to produce suitable sub-second delays when animating an image sequence.

For further information about ImageMagick, select from these sources:

ImageMagick Archives

Frequently Asked Questions

What's New

How You Can Help

ImageMagick Tools

Magick Image File Format

ImageMagick's color reduction algorithm

Magick Application Programming Interface

Object-oriented Perl Interface to ImageMagick

Object-oriented C++ Interface to ImageMagick

Object-oriented Python Interface to ImageMagick