Scripting with ImageMagick
ImageMagick is an awesome package of graphics manipulation tools. You can use these tools to perform many of the same jobs that you’d perform with GUI-type tools such as The GIMP and Adobe Photoshop. But, the ImageMagick tools are command-line tools, which allows you to use them in scripts in order to automate many types of jobs. These scripts can either be normal shell scripts, or scripts that use the ImageMagick scripting environment.
Topics in this chapter include:
- Converting non-standard filename extensions
- Installing ImageMagick
- Displaying images
- Viewing image properties
- Resizing and customizing images
- Batch-processing image files
- Using Fred’s ImageMagick scripts
If you’re ready, let’s get started.