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+Introduction to ImageMagick
+
+ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
+It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100)
+including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG,
+and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and
+transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw
+text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
+
+The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command line
+or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite programming
+language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand
+(C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java),
+L-Magick (Lisp), NMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet (.NET), PascalMagick (Pascal),
+PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick
+(Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface,
+use ImageMagick to modify or create images dynamically and automagically.
+
+ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution
+or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its
+license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.
+Features and Capabilities
+
+Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
+
+ * Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG
+ to JPEG)
+ * Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image
+ * Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
+ * Draw: add shapes or text to an image
+ * Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
+ * Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image
+ * Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images
+ * Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image
+ * Image identification: describe the format and properties of an image
+ * Composite: overlap one image over another
+ * Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas
+ * Motion picture support: read and write the common image formats used in
+ digital film work
+ * Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image
+ channels
+ * High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the wide range of
+ * intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct
+ sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows
+ * Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image
+ sizes
+ * Encipher or decipher an image: convert ordinary images into
+ unintelligible gibberish and back again
+ * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and many
+ internal algorithms are already threaded to take advantage of speed-ups
+ offered by the dual and quad-core processor technologies
+
+For more information, see http://www.imagemagick.org.
+
+Examples of Imagemagick Usage, http://www.imagemagick.org/usage/,
+shows how to use ImageMagick from the command-line to accomplish any
+of these tasks and much more. Also, see Fred's ImageMagick Scripts,
+http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/, a plethora of command-line scripts
+that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal,
+and color manipulations.
+