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cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	173	<p class="navigation-index">[<a href="#anatomy">The Anatomy of the Command Line</a> • <a href="#input">Input Filename</a> • <a href="#setting">Image Setting</a> • <a href="#operator">Image Operator</a> • <a href="#sequence">Image Sequence Operator</a> • <a href="#geometry">Image Geometry</a> • <a href="#stack">Image Stack</a> • <a href="#output">Output Filename</a>]</p>
				174
				175	<p>The ImageMagick command line can be as simple as this.</p>
				176
				177	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.jpg image.png</span></p>
				178	<p>Or it can be very complex, as in the following.</p>
				179
				180	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert label.gif +matte \ <br/>
				181	$ +clone -shade 110x90 -normalize -negate +clone -compose Plus -composite $ \<br/>
				182	$ -clone 0 -shade 110x50 -normalize -channel BG -fx 0 +channel -matte $ \<br/>
				183	-delete 0 +swap -compose Multiply -composite button.gif</span></p>
				184	<p>Without knowing much about the ImageMagick command line, you can probably figure out that the first command above converts an image in the JPEG format to one in the PNG format. However, very few may realize the second, more complex command, gives a flat two-dimensional label a three-dimensional look with rich textures and simulated depth:</p>
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				195	<p class="warn">[<em>A quick word about our formatting of commands:</em> The second example above is long enough that the command must be written across several lines, so we have formatted it for clarity by inserting backslashes (<kbd>\</kbd>). The backslash is the Unix <em>line continuation</em> character. In the Windows shell, a carat character (<kbd>^</kbd>) may be used for line continuation. We will use the Unix style on these web pages, as above. Sometimes, however, the lines may be wrapped by your browser if the browser window is small enough, but the command lines, shown in white, are still intended to be typed as one line. Line continuation characters need not be entered. The <em>parentheses</em> that are <em>escaped</em> above using the backslash are not escaped in Windows. There are some other differences between Windows and Unix (involving quotation marks, for instance), but we'll discuss some of those issues later, as they arise.]</p>
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cristy	61365ad	2010-11-28 02:38:34 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	197	<p>Our final example is a shaded cylinder that shows the percent completion of a task:</p>
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				206	<p>And here is the command that generates the shaded cylinder:</p>
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				209	<pre class="text">
				210	convert -size 320x90 -stroke snow4 \
				211	\( xc:none \
				212	-fill chartreuse3 -draw 'roundrectangle 16, 5, 180, 85 20,40' \
				213	gradient:chartreuse-chartreuse4 -compose ATop -composite -compose Over \
				214	-fill chartreuse2 -draw 'roundrectangle 140, 5, 180, 85 20,40' \
				215	\) \
				216	\( xc:none -draw 'roundrectangle 16, 5, 304, 85 20,40' \
				217	gradient:'none-graya(0,.4)' -compose In -composite -compose Over \
				218	$ xc:none -draw 'roundrectangle 264, 5, 304, 85 20,40' $ \
				219	-compose DstOut -composite -compose Over \
				220	-fill 'graya(0,.07)' -draw 'roundrectangle 264, 5, 304, 85 20,40' \
				221	-strokewidth 2 -draw 'roundrectangle 16, 5, 304, 85 20,40' \
				222	\) \
				223	\( xc:none -fill white -draw 'roundrectangle 16, 5, 304, 85 20,40' \
				224	$ +clone -background snow4 -shadow 80x3+3+3 $ \
				225	\) \
				226	-insert 0 -insert 1 -background none -layers merge \
				227	\
				228	\( -font Helvetica -pointsize 80 \
				229	-strokewidth 1 -fill red label:'50 %' -trim +repage \
				230	\( +clone -background firebrick3 -shadow 80x3+3+3 \
				231	\) +swap -background none -layers merge \) \
				232	-insert 0 -gravity center -append \
				233	-background white -gravity center -extent 320x200 \
				234	cylinder_shaded_2.png
				235	</pre>
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				239	<p>In the next sections we dissect the anatomy of the ImageMagick command line. Hopefully, after carefully reading and better understanding how the command line works, you should be able to accomplish complex image-processing tasks without resorting to the sometimes daunting <a href="../www/api.html">program interfaces</a>.</p>
				240
				241	<p>See <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/">Examples of ImageMagick Usage</a> for additional help when using ImageMagick from the command-line.</p>
				242
				243	<h2><a name="anatomy"></a>The Anatomy of the Command Line</h2>
				244	<p>The ImageMagick command line consists of</p>
				245
				246	<ol>
				247	<li>one or more required input filenames.</li>
				248	<li>zero, one, or more image settings.</li>
				249	<li>zero, one, or more image operators.</li>
				250	<li>zero, one, or more image sequence operators.</li>
				251	<li>zero, one, or more image stacks.</li>
				252	<li>zero or one output image filenames (required by
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				254	<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>,
				255	<a href="../www/montage.html.html">montage.html</a>,
				256	<a href="../www/compare.html">compare</a>,
				257	<a href="../www/import.html">import</a>,
				258	<a href="../www/conjure.html">conjure</a>).
				259	</li>
				260	</ol>
				261
				262	<p>You can find a detailed explanation of each of the constituent parts of the command line in the sections that follow.</p>
				263
				264	<h2><a name="input"></a>Input Filename</h2>
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				267	<p>ImageMagick extends the concept of an input filename to include:</p>
				268	<ul>
				269	<li>filename globbing</li>
				270	<li>an explicit image format</li>
				271	<li>using built-in images and patterns</li>
				272	<li>STDIN, STDOUT, and file descriptors</li>
				273	<li>selecting certain frames from an image</li>
				274	<li>selecting a region of an image</li>
				275	<li>forcing an inline image resize</li>
				276	<li>forcing an inline image crop</li>
				277	<li>using filename references</li>
				278	</ul>
				279
				280	<p>These extensions are explained in the next few paragraphs.</p>
				281
				282	<h3>Filename Globbing</h3>
				283	<div class="doc-section">
				284	<p>In Unix shells, certain characters such as the asterisk (<kbd>*</kbd>) and question mark (<kbd>?</kbd>) automagically cause lists of filenames to be generated based on pattern matches. This feature is known as globbing. ImageMagick supports filename globbing for systems, such as Windows, that does not natively support it. For example, suppose you want to convert <kbd>1.jpg</kbd>, <kbd>2.jpg</kbd>, <kbd>3.jpg</kbd>, <kbd>4.jpg</kbd>, and <kbd>5.jpg</kbd> in your current directory to a GIF animation. You can conveniently refer to all of the JPEG files with this command:
				285	</p>
				286
				287	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert *.jpg images.gif</span></p>
				288	</div>
				289
				290	<h3>Explicit Image Format</h3>
				291	<div class="doc-section">
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	292	<p>Images are stored in a myriad of image formats including
				293	the better known JPEG, PNG, TIFF and others. ImageMagick must know the format
				294	of the image before it can be read and processed. Most formats have a
				295	signature within the image that uniquely identifies the format. Failing
				296	that, ImageMagick leverages the filename extension to determine the format.
				297	For example, <kbd>image.jpg</kbd> or <kbd>image.JPG</kbd> tells ImageMagick
				298	it is reading an image in the JPEG format. </>
				299
				300	<p>In some cases the image may not contain a signature
				301	and/or the filename does not identify the image format. In these cases an
				302	explicit image format must be specified. For example, suppose our image
				303	is named <kbd>image</kbd> and contains raw red, green, and blue intensity
				304	values. ImageMagick has no way to automagically determine the image format
				305	so we explicitly set one:
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	306	</p>
				307
				308	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 640x480 -depth 8 rgb:image image.png</span></p>
cristy	d3ef010	2009-09-12 18:11:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	309	</div>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	310
				311	<h3>Built-in Images and Patterns</h3>
				312	<div class="doc-section">
				313	<p>ImageMagick has a number of built-in <a href="../www/formats.html#builtin-images">images</a> and <a href="../www/formats.html#builtin-patterns">patterns</a>. To utilize the checkerboard pattern, for example, use:
				314	</p>
				315
				316	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 640x480 pattern:checkerboard checkerboard.png</span></p>
				317	</div>
				318
				319	<h3>STDIN, STDOUT, and file descriptors</h3>
				320	<div class="doc-section">
				321	<p>Unix and Windows permit the output of one command to be piped to the input of another. ImageMagick permits image data to be read and written from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams">standard streams</a> STDIN (<em>standard in</em>) and STDOUT (<em>standard out</em>), respectively, using a pseudo-filename of <kbd>-</kbd>. In this example we pipe the output of
				322	<a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a> to the <a href="../www/display.html">display</a> program:
				323	</p>
				324
				325	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: gif:- \| display gif:-</span></p>
				326	<p>The second explicit format "<kbd>gif:</kbd>" is optional in the preceding example. The GIF image format has a unique signature within the image so ImageMagick's <a href="../www/display.html">display</a> command can readily recognize the format as GIF. The <a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a> program also accepts STDIN as input in this way:
				327	</p>
				328
				329	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: gif:- \| convert - -resize "200%" bigrose.jpg</span></p>
				330	<p>Other pipes can be accessed via their <em>file descriptors</em> (as of version 6.4.9-3). The file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are reserved for the standard streams STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, respectively, but a pipe associated with a file descriptor number <em>N</em>>2 can be accessed using the pseudonym <kbd>fd:</kbd><em>N</em>. (The pseudonyms <kbd>fd:0</kbd> and <kbd>fd:1</kbd> can be used for STDIN and STDOUT.) The next example shows how to append image data piped from files with descriptors 3 and 4 and direct the result to the file with descriptor number 5.
				331	</p>
				332
				333	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert fd:3 fd:4 -append fd:5</span></p>
				334	<p>When needed, explicit image formats can be given as mentioned earlier, as in the following.
				335	</p>
				336
				337	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert gif:fd:3 jpg:fd:4 -append tif:fd:5</span></p>
				338	</div>
				339
				340	<h3>Selecting Frames</h3>
				341	<div class="doc-section">
				342	<p>Some images formats contain more than one image frame. Perhaps you only want the first image, or the last, or some number of images in-between. You can specify which image frames to read by appending the image filename with the frame range enclosed in brackets. Here our image (an animated GIF) contains more than one frame but we only want the first:
				343	</p>
				344
				345	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert 'images.gif[0]' image.png</span></p>
				346	<p class="warn">[Unix shells generally interpret brackets so we enclosed the filename in quotes above.
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	347	In a Windows command shell the brackets are not interpreted but using quotes doesn't hurt. However, in most cases the roles of single-quotes and double-quotes are reversed with respect to Unix and Windows, so Windows users should usually try double-quotes where we display single-quotes, and vice versa.]
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	348	</p>
				349
				350	<p>You can read more than one image from a sequence with a frame range. For example, you can extract the first four frames of an image sequence:
				351	</p>
				352
				353	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert 'images.gif[0-3]' images.mng</span></p>
				354	<p>Finally, you can read more than one image from a sequence, out-of-order. The next command gets the third image in the sequence, followed by the second, and then the fourth:
				355	</p>
				356
				357	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert 'images.gif[3,2,4]' images.mng</span></p>
				358	<p>Notice that in the last two commands, a single image is written. The output in this case, where the image type is MNG, is a multi-frame file because the MNG format supports multiple frames. Had the output format been JPG, which only supports single frames, the output would have consisted of separate frames. More about that below, in the section about the <a href="#output">Output Filename</a>.
				359	</p>
				360	</div>
				361
				362	<h3>Selecting an Image Region</h3>
				363	<div class="doc-section">
				364	<p>Raw images are a sequence of color intensities without additional meta information such as width, height, or image signature. With raw image formats, you must specify the image width and height but you can also specify a region of the image to read. In our example, the image is in the raw 8-bit RGB format and is 6000 pixels wide and 4000 pixels high. However, we only want a region of 600 by 400 near the center of the image:
				365	</p>
				366
cristy	4949d52	2010-03-12 18:41:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	367	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 6000x4000 -depth 8 \ <br/> 'rgb:image[600x400+1900+2900]' image.jpg</span></p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	368	<p>
				369	You can get the same results with the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extract">‑extract</a> option:
				370	</p>
				371
cristy	4949d52	2010-03-12 18:41:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	372	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 6000x4000 -depth 8 \ <br/> -extract 600x400+1900+2900 rgb:image image.jpg</span></p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	373	</div>
				374
				375	<h3>Inline Image Resize</h3>
				376	<div class="doc-section">
				377	<p>It is sometimes convenient to resize an image as they are read. Suppose you have hundreds of large JPEG images you want to convert to a sequence of PNG thumbails:
				378	</p>
				379
				380	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert '*.jpg' -resize 120x120 thumbnail%03d.png</span></p>
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	381	<p>Here <em>all</em> the images are read and subsequently
				382	resized. It is faster and less resource intensive to resize each image it
				383	is read:
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	384	</p>
				385
				386	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert '*.jpg[120x120]' thumbnail%03d.png</span></p>
				387	</div>
				388
				389	<h3>Inline Image Crop</h3>
				390	<div class="doc-section">
				391	<p>It is sometimes convenient to crop an image as they are read. Suppose you have hundreds of large JPEG images you want to convert to a sequence of PNG thumbails:
				392	</p>
				393
				394	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert '*.jpg' -crop 120x120+10+5 thumbnail%03d.png</span></p>
				395	<p>Here <em>all</em> the images are read and subsequently cropped. It is faster and less resource-intensive to crop each image as it is read:
				396	</p>
				397
				398	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert '*.jpg[120x120+10+5]' thumbnail%03d.png</span></p>
				399	</div>
				400
				401	<h3>Filename References</h3>
				402	<div class="doc-section">
				403	<p>There are two methods to use a filename to reference other image filenames.
				404	The first is with '<kbd>@</kbd>' which reads image filenames from the specified file. Assume the file <kbd>myimages.txt</kbd> consists of a list of filenames, like so:
				405	</p>
				406
				407	<p class="text">
				408	frame001.jpg <br/>
				409	frame002.jpg <br/>
				410	frame003.jpg <br/>
				411
				412	</p>
				413
				414	<p>Then with the following command, ImageMagick reads the images <kbd>image-1.jpg</kbd>, <kbd>image-2.jpg</kbd>, and <kbd>image-3.jpg</kbd>. </p>
				415
				416	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert @myimages.txt mymovie.gif</span></p>
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	417	<p>Some ImageMagick command-line options may exceed the capabilities of
				418	your command line processor. Windows, for example, limits command lines
				419	to 8192 characters. If, for example, you have a draw option with polygon
				420	points that exceed the command-line length limit, put the draw option instead
				421	in a file and reference the file with
				422	the <kbd>@</kbd> (e.g. <kbd>@mypoly.txt</kbd>).</p>
				423
				424	<p>Another method of referring to other image files is by
				425	embedding a formatting character in the filename with a scene range. Consider
				426	the filename <kbd>image-%d.jpg[1-5]</kbd>. The command</p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	427
				428	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert image-%d.jpg[1-5]</span></p>
				429	<p>causes ImageMagick to attempt to read images with these filenames:
				430	</p>
				431
				432	<p class="text">
				433	image-1.jpg <br/>
				434	image-2.jpg <br/>
				435	image-3.jpg <br/>
				436	image-4.jpg <br/>
				437	image-5.jpg
				438	</p>
				439
				440	</div>
				441	</div>
				442
				443
				444	<h2><a name="setting"></a>Image Setting</h2>
				445	<div class="doc-section">
				446
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	447	<p>An image setting persists as it appears on the command line and may affect
				448	subsequent processing such as reading an image, an image operator, or when
				449	writing an image as appropriate. An image setting stays in effect until it
				450	is reset or the command line terminates. The image settings include:</p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	451
				452	<p class="options">
cristy	2c83960	2010-04-03 02:32:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	453	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#adjoin">‑adjoin</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#affine">‑affine</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#alpha">‑alpha</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#antialias">‑antialias</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#authenticate">‑authenticate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#background">‑background</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#black-point-compensation">‑black‑point‑compensation</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#blue-primary">‑blue‑primary</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#bordercolor">‑bordercolor</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#caption">‑caption</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#comment">‑comment</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#compress">‑compress</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#debug">‑debug</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#define">‑define</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#delay">‑delay</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#density">‑density</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#depth">‑depth</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#direction">‑direction</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#display">‑display</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#dispose">‑dispose</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#dither">‑dither</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#encoding">‑encoding</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#endian">‑endian</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extract">‑extract</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#family">‑family</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#fill">‑fill</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#filter">‑filter</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#font">‑font</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#format">‑format</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#fuzz">‑fuzz</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#geometry">‑geometry</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gravity">‑gravity</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#green-primary">‑green‑primary</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#interlace">‑interlace</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#intent">‑intent</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#interpolate">‑interpolate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#label">‑label</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#limit">‑limit</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#linewidth">‑linewidth</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#log">‑log</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#loop">‑loop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#mask">‑mask</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#mattecolor">‑mattecolor</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#monitor">‑monitor</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#orient">‑orient</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#page">‑page</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#pointsize">‑pointsize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#preview">‑preview</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quality">‑quality</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quiet">‑quiet</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#red-primary">‑red‑primary</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#region">‑region</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#render">‑render</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#repage">‑repage</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">‑sampling‑factor</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#scene">‑scene</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#seed">‑seed</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#size">‑size</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#stretch">‑stretch</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#stroke">‑stroke</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#strokewidth">‑strokewidth</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#style">‑style</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#texture">‑texture</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#tile">‑tile</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#transparent-color">‑transparent‑color</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#treedepth">‑treedepth</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#type">‑type</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#undercolor">‑undercolor</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#units">‑units</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#verbose">‑verbose</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">‑virtual‑pixel</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#weight">‑weight</a> </p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	454
				455	<p>In this example, <em class="arg">-channel</em> applies to each of the images, since, as we mentioned, settings persist:
				456	</p>
				457
cristy	d3ef010	2009-09-12 18:11:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	458	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert -channel RGB wand.png wizard.png images.png</span></p>
cristy	d3ef010	2009-09-12 18:11:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	459	</div>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	460
				461	<h2><a name="operator"></a>Image Operator</h2>
				462	<div class="doc-section">
				463
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	464	<p>An image operator differs from a setting in that it affects the image
				465	immediately as it appears on the command line. An operator is
				466	any <a href="/script../www/command-line-options.html">command line option</a>
				467	not listed as a <a href="#setting">image setting</a>
				468	or <a href="#sequence">image sequence operator</a>. Unlike an
				469	image setting, which persists until the command line terminates,
				470	an operator is applied to an image and forgotten. The image operators
				471	include:</p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	472
				473	<p class="options">
cristy	51853f0	2010-03-18 20:03:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	474	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#annotate">‑annotate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#black-threshold">‑black‑threshold</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#blur">‑blur</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#border">‑border</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#charcoal">‑charcoal</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#chop">‑chop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#clip">‑clip</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#clip-path">‑clip‑path</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#clip-mask">‑clip‑mask</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#colors">‑colors</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#colorize">‑colorize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#colorspace">‑colorspace</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#compose">‑compose</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#contrast">‑contrast</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#convolve">‑convolve</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#crop">‑crop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#cycle">‑cycle</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#despeckle">‑despeckle</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#draw">‑draw</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#edge">‑edge</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#emboss">‑emboss</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#enhance">‑enhance</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#equalize">‑equalize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#evaluate">‑evaluate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extent">‑extent</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#flip">‑flip</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#flop">‑flop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#floodfill">‑floodfill</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#frame">‑frame</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gamma">‑gamma</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gaussian-blur">‑gaussian‑blur</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#implode">‑implode</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#lat">‑lat</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#level">‑level</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#map">‑map</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#median">‑median</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#modulate">‑modulate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#monochrome">‑monochrome</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#negate">‑negate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#noise">‑noise</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#normalize">‑normalize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#opaque">‑opaque</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#ordered-dither">‑ordered‑dither</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#paint">‑paint</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#posterize">‑posterize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#raise">‑raise</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#profile">‑profile</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#radial-blur">‑radial‑blur</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#raise">‑raise</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#random-threshold">‑random‑threshold</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#resample">‑resample</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#resize">‑resize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#roll">‑roll</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#rotate">‑rotate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sample">‑sample</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#scale">‑scale</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sepia-tone">‑sepia‑tone</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#segment">‑segment</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#shade">‑shade</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#shadow">‑shadow</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sharpen">‑sharpen</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#shave">‑shave</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#shear">‑shear</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sigmoidal-contrast">‑sigmoidal‑contrast</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#solarize">‑solarize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#splice">‑splice</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#spread">‑spread</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#strip">‑strip</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#swirl">‑swirl</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#threshold">‑threshold</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#transparent">‑transparent</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#thumbnail">‑thumbnail</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#tint">‑tint</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#transform">‑transform</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#trim">‑trim</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#unsharp">‑unsharp</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#version">‑version</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#wave">‑wave</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#white-point">‑white‑point</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#white-threshold">‑white‑threshold</a> </p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	475
				476	<p>In this example, <em class="arg">-negate</em> negates the wand image but not the wizard:</p>
				477
				478	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert wand.png -negate wizard.png images.png</span></p></div>
				479
				480	<h2><a name="sequence"></a>Image Sequence Operator</h2>
				481	<div class="doc-section">
				482
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	483	<p>An image sequence operator differs from a setting in that it affects an
				484	image sequence immediately as it appears on the command line. Choose from
				485	these image sequence operators:</p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	486
				487	<p class="options">
cristy	c496086	2010-05-23 22:24:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	488	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#append">‑append</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#affinity">‑affinity</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#average">‑average</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#clut">‑clut</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#coalesce">‑coalesce</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#combine">‑combine</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#composite">‑composite</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#crop">‑crop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#debug">‑debug</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#deconstruct">‑deconstruct</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#delete">‑delete</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#evaluate-seqence">‑evaluate‑seqence</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#fft">‑fft</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#flatten">‑flatten</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#fx">‑fx</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#hald-clut">‑hald‑clut</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#ift">‑ift</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#identify">‑identify</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#insert">‑insert</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#layers">‑layers</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#limit">‑limit</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#map">‑map</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#maximum">‑maximum</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#minimum">‑minimum</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#morph">‑morph</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#mosaic">‑mosaic</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#optimize">‑optimize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#print">‑print</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#process">‑process</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quiet">‑quiet</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#separate">‑separate</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#swap">‑swap</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#write">‑write</a> </p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	489	</div>
				490
				491	<h2><a name="geometry"></a>Image Geometry</h2>
				492	<div class="doc-section">
				493
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	494	<p>Many command-line options take a <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument
				495	to specify such things as the desired width and height of an image and other
				496	dimensional quantities. Because users want so many variations on the resulting
				497	dimensions, sizes, and positions of images (and because ImageMagick wants to
				498	provide them), the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument can take many
				499	forms. We describe many of these in this section. </p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	500
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	501	<p>The image options and settings that take some form of
				502	a <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument include the following.
				503	Keep in mind that some of these parse their arguments in slightly
				504	different ways. See the documentation for the individual option or
				505	setting for more specifics.</p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	506
				507	<p class="options" style="text-align:justify">
cristy	5f2356f	2009-11-16 00:40:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	508	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#adaptive-resize">‑adaptive‑resize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#border">‑border</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#borderwidth">‑borderwidth</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#chop">‑chop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#crop">‑crop</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#density">‑density</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extent">‑extent</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extract">‑extract</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#frame">‑frame</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#geometry">‑geometry</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#iconGeometry">‑iconGeometry</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#liquid-rescale">‑liquid‑rescale</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#page">‑page</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#region">‑region</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#repage">‑repage</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#resize">‑resize</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sample">‑sample</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#scale">‑scale</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#shave">‑shave</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#splice">‑splice</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#thumbnail">‑thumbnail</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#window">‑window</a> </p>
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				510	<p>The <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument might take any of the forms listed in the table below. These will described in more detail in the subsections following the table. The usual form is <em class="arg">size</em>[<em class="arg">offset</em>], meaning <em class="arg">size</em> is required and <em class="arg">offset</em> is optional. Occasionally, [<em class="arg">size</em>]<em class="arg">offset</em> is possible. In no cases are spaces permitted within the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
				511
				512
				513	<table id="geometryTable" class="doc">
				514	<col width="20%"/> <col width="80%"/>
				515	<thead>
				516	<tr valign="top">
				517	<th style="text-align:center"><em class="arg">size</em></th>
				518	<th>General description (actual behavior can vary for different options and settings)</th>
				519	</tr>
				520	</thead>
				521	<tbody>
				522	<tr valign="top">
				523	<td><em class="arg">scale</em>%</td>
				524	<td>Height and width both scaled by specified percentage.</td>
				525	</tr>
				526	<tr valign="top">
				527	<td><em class="arg">scale-x</em>%x<em class="arg">scale-y</em>%</td>
				528	<td>Height and width individually scaled by specified percentages. (Only one % symbol needed.)</td>
				529	</tr>
				530	<tr valign="top">
				531	<td><em class="arg">width</em></td>
				532	<td>Width given, height automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio.</td>
				533	</tr>
				534	<tr valign="top">
				535	<td>x<em class="arg">height</em></td>
				536	<td>Height given, width automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio.</td>
				537	</tr>
				538	<tr valign="top">
				539	<td><em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em></td>
				540	<td>Maximum values of height and width given, aspect ratio preserved.</td>
				541	</tr>
				542	<tr valign="top">
				543	<td><em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em>^</td>
				544	<td>Minimum values of width and height given, aspect ratio preserved.</td>
				545	</tr>
				546	<tr valign="top">
				547	<td><em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em>!</td>
				548	<td>Width and height emphatically given, original aspect ratio ignored.</td>
				549	</tr>
				550	<tr valign="top">
				551	<td><em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em>></td>
				552	<td>Change as per <em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em> but only if an image dimension exceeds a specified dimension.</td>
				553	</tr>
				554	<tr valign="top">
				555	<td><em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em><</td>
				556	<td>Change dimensions only if both image dimensions exceed specified dimensions.</td>
				557	</tr>
				558	<tr valign="top">
				559	<td><em class="arg">area</em>@</td>
				560	<td>Resize image to have specified area in pixels. Aspect ratio is preserved.</td>
				561	</tr>
				562	</tbody>
				563	</table>
				564	<table class="doc">
				565	<col width="20%"/> <col width="80%"/>
				566	<thead>
				567	<tr valign="top">
				568	<th style="text-align:center">{<em class="arg">size</em>}{<em class="arg">offset</em>}</th>
				569	<th>Specifying the <em class="arg">offset</em> (default is <kbd>+0+0</kbd>). Below, {<em class="arg">size</em>} refers to any of the forms above.</th>
				570	</tr>
				571	</thead>
				572
				573	<tbody>
				574	<tr valign="top">
				575	<td>{<em class="arg">size</em>}{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em></td>
				576	<td>Horizontal and vertical offsets <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em>, specified in pixels. Signs are required for both. Offsets are affected by <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gravity">‑gravity</a> setting. Offsets are not affected by <kbd>%</kbd> or other <em class="arg">size</em> operators.</td>
				577	</tr>
				578	</tbody>
				579	</table>
				580
				581
				582	<h3>Basic adjustments to width and height; the operators <kbd>%</kbd>, <kbd>^</kbd>, and <kbd>!</kbd> </h3>
				583	<div class="doc-section">
				584	<p>Here, just below, are a few simple examples of <em class="arg">geometry</em>, showing how it might be used as an argument to the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#resize">‑resize</a> option. We'll use the internal image <kbd>logo:</kbd> for our input image.
				585	<a href="../images/logo-fullsize.png">
				586	This fine image</a> is 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high. We say its <em>dimensions</em> are 640x480. When we give dimensions of an image, the width (the horizontal dimension) always precedes the height (the vertical dimension). This will be true when we speak of coordinates or <em>offsets</em> into an image, which will always be <em>x</em>–value followed by <em>y</em>. Just think of your high school algebra classes and the <em>xy</em>–plane. (Well, almost: our <em>y</em>–axis will always go downward!)
				587	</p>
				588
				589	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '200%' bigWiz.png</span></p>
				590	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '200x50%' longShortWiz.png</span></p>
				591	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100x200' notThinWiz.png</span></p>
				592	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100x200^' biggerNotThinWiz.png</span></p>
				593	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100x200!' dochThinWiz.png</span></p>
				594
				595	<p>The first of the four commands is simple—it stretches both the width and height of the input image by <kbd>200%</kbd> in each direction; it magnifies the whole thing by a factor of two. The second command specifies different percentages for each direction, stretching the width to <kbd>200</kbd>% and squashing the height to <kbd>50%</kbd>. The resulting image (in this example) has dimensions 1280x240. Notice that the percent symbol needn't be repeated; the following are equivalent: <kbd>200x50%</kbd>, <kbd>200%x50</kbd>, <kbd>200%x50%</kbd>.
				596	</p>
				597
				598	<p>By default, the width and height given in a <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument are <em>maximum</em> values unless a percentage is specified. That is, the image is expanded or contracted to fit the specified width and height value while maintaining the <em>aspect ratio</em> (the ratio of its height to its width) of the image. For instance, the third command above "tries" to set the dimensions to <kbd>100x200</kbd>. Imagine gradually shrinking the original image (which is 640x480), keeping is aspect ratio constant, until it just fits into a 100x200 rectangle. Since the image is longer than it is tall, it will fit when its width shrinks to 100 pixels. To preserve the aspect ratio, the height will therefore have to be (480/640)×100 pixels=75 pixels, so the final dimensions will be 100x75.</p>
				599
				600	<p> Notice that in the previous example, at least one of the specified dimensions will be attained (in this case, the width, 100 pixels). The resulting image fits snugly within the original. One can do just the opposite of this by invoking the <kbd>^</kbd> operator, as in the fourth example above. In that case, when <kbd>100x200^</kbd> is given as the argument, again at least one of the dimensions will be attained, but in this case the resulting image can snugly contain the original. Here the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument gives <em>minimum</em> values. In our example, the height will become 200 and the width will be scaled to preserve the aspect ratio, becoming (640/480)×200 pixels=267 pixels. With the <kbd>^</kbd> operator, one of those dimensions will match the requested size, but the image will likely overflow the dimensions requested to preserve its aspect ratio. (The <kbd>^</kbd> feature is new as of IM 6.3.8-2.)</p>
				601
				602	<p>We see that ImageMagick is very good about preserving aspect ratios of images, to prevent distortion of your favorite photos and images. But you might really want the dimensions to be <kbd>100x200</kbd>, thereby stretching the image. In this case just tell ImageMagick you really mean it (!) by appending an exclamation operator to the geometry. This will force the image size to exactly what you specify. So, for example, if you specify <kbd>100x200!</kbd> the dimensions will become exactly 100x200 (giving a small, vertically elongated wizard).</p>
				603	</div>
				604
				605	<h3>Bounding the width, height, and area; the operators <kbd>></kbd>, <kbd><</kbd>, and <kbd>@</kbd> </h3>
				606	<div class="doc-section">
				607	<p>
				608	Here are a few more examples:
				609	</p>
				610
				611	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100' wiz1.png</span></p>
				612	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize 'x200' wiz2.png</span></p>
				613	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100x200>' wiz3.png</span></p>
				614	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '100x200<' wiz4.png</span></p>
				615	<p>If only one dimension is given it is taken to be the width. When only the width is specified, as in the first example above, the width is accepted as given and the height is chosen to maintain the aspect ratio of the input image. Similarly, if only the height is specified, as in the second example above, the height is accepted and the width is chosen to maintain the aspect ratio.</p>
				616
				617
cristy	efb2bdb	2010-11-20 19:35:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	618	<p>Use <kbd>></kbd> to change the dimensions of the image <em>only</em> if the original width or height is exeeded by one of the <em class="arg">geometry</em> specifications. Use <kbd><</kbd> to resize the image <em>only</em> if the original dimensions are more than the <em class="arg">geometry</em> specifications. In either case, if a change is made, the result is as if the <kbd>></kbd> or <kbd>></kbd> operator was not present. So, in the third example above, we specified <kbd>100x200></kbd> and the original image size is 640x480, so the image size is reduced as if we had specified <kbd>100x200</kbd>. However, in the fourth example above, there will be no change to its size.</p>
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				620	<p>Finally, use <kbd>@</kbd> to specify the maximum area in pixels of an image, again while attempting to preserve aspect ratio. (Pixels take only integer values, so some approximation is always at work.) In the following example, an area of 10000 pixels is requested. The resulting file has dimensions 115x86, which has 9890 pixels. </p>
				621
				622	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize '@10000' wiz10000.png</span></p>
				623	<p class="warn">Another word about the quotation marks: In all the examples above and below, we have enclosed the <em class="arg">geometry</em> arguments within quotation marks. Doing so is optional in many cases, but not always. We <em>must</em> enclose the geometry specifications in quotation marks when using <kbd><</kbd> or <kbd>></kbd> to prevent these characters from being interpreted by the shell as <em>file redirection</em>. On Windows systems, the carat <kbd>^</kbd>  needs to be within quotes, else it is ignored. To be safe, one should probably maintain a habit of enclosing all <em class="arg">geometry</em> arguments in quotes, as we have here.
				624	</p>
				625	</div>
				626
				627	<h3>Offsets in geometry</h3>
				628	<div class="doc-section">
				629	<p>
				630	Here are some examples to illustrate the use of <em>offsets</em> in <em class="arg">geometry</em> arguments. One typical use of offsets is in conjunction with the
				631	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#region">‑region</a> option. This option allows many other options to modify the pixels within a specified rectangular subregion of an image. As such, it needs to be given the width and height of that region, and also an <em>offset</em> into the image, which is a pair of coordinates that indicate the location of the region within the larger image. Below, in the first example, we specify a region of size <kbd>100x200</kbd> to be located at the <em>xy</em>–coordinates <em>x</em>=10, <em>y</em>=20. Let's use the usual algebraic notation (<em>x</em>,<em>y</em>)=(10,20), for convenience.
				632	</p>
				633
				634	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -region '100x200+10+20' -negate wizNeg1.png</span></p>
				635	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -region '100x200-10+20' -negate wizNeg2.png</span></p>
cristy	4949d52	2010-03-12 18:41:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	636	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -gravity center -region '100x200-10+20' \ <br/> -negate wizNeg3.png</span></p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	637
				638	<p>Note that offsets always require +/− signs. The offset is not actually a true location within the image; its coordinates must be added to some other location. Let's refer to that as the <em>current location</em>. In the first two examples above, though, that location is the upper-left hand corner of the image, which has coordinates (0,0). (That is the default situation when there are no other directives given to change it.) The first example above puts the <kbd>100x200</kbd> rectangle's own upper-left corner at (10,20). </p>
				639
				640	<p>A negative offset can make sense in many cases. In the second example above, the offset is (-10,20), specified by <kbd>-10+20</kbd>. In that case, only the portion of the (virtual) rectangle obtained that lies within the image can be negated; here it is equivalent to specifying the geometry as <kbd>90x200+0+20</kbd>.</p>
				641
				642	<p>In the third example above, the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gravity">‑gravity</a> setting precedes the others and sets the current location within the image at the very center of the image. In this case that is at pixel (320,240), since the size of the image is 640x480. This means that the offsets apply to that location, which thereby gets moved, in this case, to (320-10,240+20)=(310,260). But the <kbd>100x200</kbd> region itself is affected by the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gravity">‑gravity</a> setting, so instead of affecting its upper-left corner, the region's own center (at (+50,+100) within it) is determined. Therefore the center of the <kbd>100x200</kbd> rectangle is moved to (310,260). The negated rectangle's upper-left corner is now at (310-50,260-100)=(260,160).
				643	</p>
				644	</div>
				645	</div>
				646
				647
				648	<h2><a name="stack"></a>Image Stack</h2>
				649	<div class="doc-section">
				650
				651	<p>In school, your teacher probably permitted you to work on problems on a scrap of paper and then copy the results to your test paper. An image stack is similar. It permits you to work on an image or image sequence in isolation and subsequently introduce the results back into the command line. The image stack is delineated with parenthesis. Image operators only affect images in the current stack. For example, we can limit the image rotation to just the wizard image like this:</p>
				652
				653	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert wand.gif $ wizard.gif -rotate 30 $ +append images.gif</span></p>
				654
				655	<p class="warn">Notice again that the parentheses are <em>escaped</em> by preceding them with
				656	backslashes. This is required under Unix, where parentheses are special
				657	<em>shell</em> characters. The backslash tells the shell not to interpret
				658	these characters, but to pass them directly to the command being executed. Do
				659	not escape the parentheses under Windows. Each parenthesis (or escaped
				660	parenthesis) must have spaces on either side, as in the example shown
				661	above.</p>
				662
				663	<p>In addition to the image operators already discussed, the following image operators are most useful when processing images in an image stack:</p>
				664
				665	<p class="options">
				666	<span class='bull'> • </span>
				667	<a href="../www/command-line-options.html#clone">‑clone</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#delete">‑delete</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#insert">‑insert</a> <span class='bull'> • </span> <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#swap">‑swap</a> <span class='bull'> • </span>
				668	</p>
				669
				670	<p>The arguments to these operators are indexes into the image sequence by number, starting with zero, for the first image, and so on. However if you give a negative index, the images are indexed from the end (last image added). That is, an index of -1 is the last image in the current image sequence, -2 gives the second-to-last, and so on.</p>
				671
				672	</div> <!-- end Image Stack section -->
				673
				674	<h2><a name="output"></a>Output Filename</h2>
				675	<div class="doc-section">
				676
				677	<p>ImageMagick extends the concept of an output filename to include:</p>
				678
				679	<ol>
				680	<li>an explicit image format</li>
				681	<li>write to <em>standard out</em></li>
				682	<li>filename references</li>
				683	</ol>
				684
				685	<p>Each of these extensions are explained in the next few paragraphs.</p>
				686
				687	<h3>Explicit Image Format</h3>
				688	<div class="doc-section">
				689	<p>Images can be stored in a mryiad of image formats including the better known JPEG, PNG, TIFF and others. ImageMagick must know the desired format of the image before it is written. ImageMagick leverages the filename extension to determine the format. For example, <kbd>image.jpg</kbd> tells ImageMagick to write the image in the JPEG format. In some cases the filename does not identify the image format. In these cases, the image is written in the format it was originally read unless an explicit image format is specified. For example, suppose we want to write our image to a filename of <kbd>image</kbd> in the raw red, green, and blue intensity format:
				690	</p>
				691
				692	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.jpg rgb:image</span></p>
				693	</div>
				694
				695	<h3>Standard Out</h3>
				696	<div class="doc-section">
				697	<p>Unix permits the output of one command to be piped to another. ImageMagick permits piping one command to another with a filename of <kbd>-</kbd>. In this example we pipe the output of <a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a> to the <a href="../www/display.html">display</a> program:
				698	</p>
				699
				700	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: gif:- \| display gif:-</span></p>
				701	<p>Here the explicit format is optional. The GIF image format has a signature that uniquely identifies it so ImageMagick can readily recognize the format as GIF.
				702	</p>
				703	</div>
				704
				705	<h3>Filename References</h3>
				706	<div class="doc-section">
				707	<p>Optionally, use an embedded formatting character to write a sequential image list. Suppose our output filename is <kbd>image-%d.jpg</kbd> and our image list includes 3 images. You can expect these images files to be written:
				708	</p>
				709
				710	<p class="text">
				711	image-0.jpg <br/>
				712	image-1.jpg <br/>
				713	image-2.jpg
				714	</p>
				715
				716	<p>Or retrieve image properties to modify the image filename. For example, the command
				717	</p>
				718
cristy	4949d52	2010-03-12 18:41:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	719	<p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -set filename:area '%wx%h' \ <br/> 'rose-%[filename:area].png'</span></p>
cristy	3ed852e	2009-09-05 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	720	<p>writes an image with this filename:
				721	</p>
				722
				723	<p class="text">
				724	rose-70x46.png
				725	</p>
				726
				727	</div>
				728
				729	</div> <!-- end Output Filename section -->
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