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ImageMagick is a robust collection of UNIX tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89 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 or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, or from the
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Version 6.7.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:52,407 |
| Version Downloads:95 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Free |
| Date:05 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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ImageMagick is a robust collection of UNIX tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89 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 or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, or from the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming languages. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. ImageMagick's focus is on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs.
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
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
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Having said that I use the one installed with MacTeX most of the time!
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ln -s /usr/local Desktop/local
Another way, without using Terminal, is the following:
1) in the Finder, press command-shift-g and type /usr
2) after that the window of /usr directory is opened, click on the folder named "local" and drag it on the Desktop while holding option and command
As you can see, these two ways make easy the access to /usr/local directory from Finder, thus there isn't any need of extra directories like /opt (macports) or /sw (fink).
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One definitely should not compare CLI of ImageMagick with click interface of Desktop publishing tools as they are different programs used for different tasks. It does not mean that Photoshop cannot do some batch jobs or one can write a GUI using (some) of the features of IM.
There are tasks which simply can have no reasonable GUI except drag-and-drop. Example? autotrace or potrace converting bw bitmap graphics to a vector one. Another? pdfcrop (not part of IM but TeX distribution) which by default crops according to bounding box. There is no controversy CLI vs GUI and depending on the task I use one or another
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apparently the new 6.5.5 is only for windows at present and MU is mis-informed :(
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Imagemagick simply has too many features to wrap in a gui, and many people use it from scripts. Take a look around the internet. Anywhere you see a thumbnail it's probably imagemagick doing it. I use it for that and many more things.
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a) there exist some more types of graphics workflow besides ‘interactively creating and touching up images by hand'. Think of batch processing. Though there might also be e.g. GraphicsConverter, the abilities of ImageMagick surpass it by far. (Not even speaking of Photoshop's comparably extremely lame and pathetic batch jobs.)
b) there is no GUI running on servers. That is: besides web apps, mostly. But if these need image processing capabilities, it is done in the backend - i. e. mostly by ImageMagick or something similar.
And then, you should not underestimate the power of the command line when it comes to abstraction. The GUI as we know it is quite challenged in that area.
Anyway, ImageMagick is by no means software that is intended to be used by the average (i.e. GUI-dependent) end user. Most people, including myself, who actually have use for its features do not seem to mind the least not having a GUI for it. (And putting GUIs on CLI tools mostly fails, anyway - the designs/concepts are actually just too different.)
And that's from someone with an MFA in visual communication (aka graphics design) ;-) (Ok, I'm probably also a geek and the majority of my colleagues might think differently in that matter.)
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IF you use a CLI then you're encouraged to think about tasks programmatically. This encourages consistency and thought rather than point and click which sometimes makes ideas too easy to realise.
This is going to make me sound a bit mad, but I actually avoid GUI for image creation, opting for PGF/TIKZ (you may have heard of this or use it if you're into LaTeX) because it keeps things consistent and forces me to think; a must for technical drawing and scientific diagrams.
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Yes I did read the comment before mine, however I did not open up the replies. My comment wasn't meant to offend, it was a serious question.
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Sorry if my response to your initial post was harsh. I know that it was a legitimate question. There are just easier ways of finding out the answer though. A quick visit to their site would have answered your question and saved you time in the long run. Having said that I really do enjoy conversations like these! I guess, as in most things, the key is compromise. I reckon you should give Imagemagick a go next time you run into batch problems in Photoshop or something similar. It sounds like you're far more advanced than me when it come to real graphical work! I must confess I had to look up clone stamping.
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This software seems extremely useful but, unfortunately, many of us are not familiar with UNIX and Command Line Interface.
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ImageMagick is an open source technology to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It is used as a core for Pixelmator
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Anonymous reviewed on 02 Oct 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 20 Jun 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Apr 2005
imagemagick does many, many things that sips doesn't
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scacinto rated on 21 Jan 2011
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Bottacco rated on 03 Dec 2010