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| <h1>Convert, Edit, or Compose Images from the Command-line</h1> |
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| <p>In the paragraphs below, find a short description for each command-line tool. Click on the program name to get details about the program usage and a list of command-line options that alters how the program behaves. If you are just getting acquainted with ImageMagick, start with the <a href="#convert">convert</a> program. Be sure to peruse Anthony Thyssen's tutorial on how to use ImageMagick utilities to <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/">create, edit, compose, or convert</a> images from the command-line.</p> |
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| <dd>mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an image and its reconstruction.</dd> |
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| <dd>resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the original image file, whereas, <a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a> writes to a different image file.</dd> |
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| <dd>create a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more.</dd> |
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| <dd>a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components of the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage formats. It writes the pixel components as they are read from the input image a row at a time making <kbd>stream</kbd> desirable when working with large images or when you require raw pixel components.</dd> |
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