ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose and display bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated.

ImageMagick is free software delivered with full C++ source code and can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.

Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line. The images then are processed, but not displayed; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages Perl, C, C++, Python, Ruby, PHP, Pascal or Java, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, RMagick, MagickWand for PHP, PascalMagick and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically.

There is an X Window GUI front end for ImageMagick. The command display or display filename opens the GUI program for interactively viewing and editing images.

GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick 5.5.2 emphasising the cross-release stability of both the programming API and user interface.

ImageMagick is the software MediaWiki (on which Wikipedia runs) uses to handle images.

See also

• GD Graphics Library
• Netpbm

External links

• ImageMagick homepage
• GraphicsMagick homepage
• PascalMagick - Pascal bindings for ImageMagick
• Bash Batch Image Processing Script - Bash script that simplifies ImageMagick manipulation from the commandline
• Chapter from ImageMagick Tricks book (PDF format)

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