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cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000060<p class="lead magick-description">Below is list of command-line options recognized by the ImageMagick <a href="command-line-tools.html">command-line tools</a>. If you want a description of a particular option, click on the option name in the navigation bar above and you will go right to it. Unless otherwise noted, each option is recognized by the commands: <a href="convert.html">convert</a> and <a href="mogrify.html">mogrify</a>.</p>
61
62<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +000063 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="adaptive-blur"></a>-adaptive-blur <var>radius</var>[x<var>sigma</var>]</h3>
cristyad41c0c2012-10-31 00:49:28 +000064</div>
65
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000066<p class="magick-description">Adaptively blur pixels, with decreasing effect near edges.</p>
cristy8ee7f242013-06-20 16:08:44 +000067
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000068<p>A Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (<var>sigma</var>) is used. If <var>sigma</var> is not given it
69defaults to 1.</p>
70
71<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +000072 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="adaptive-resize"></a>-adaptive-resize <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristy149d58c2013-08-07 19:44:54 +000073</div>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000074
75<p class="magick-description">Resize the image using data-dependent triangulation.</p>
76
77<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <a href="command-line-options.html#adaptive-resize">-adaptive-resize</a>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +000078option defaults to data-dependent triangulation. Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> to choose a different resampling algorithm.
79Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are ignored, and the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option has no effect.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000080
81<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +000082 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="adaptive-sharpen"></a>-adaptive-sharpen <var>radius</var>[x<var>sigma</var>]</h3>
cristy149d58c2013-08-07 19:44:54 +000083</div>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000084
85<p class="magick-description">Adaptively sharpen pixels, with increasing effect near edges.</p>
86
87<p>A Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation
88(<var>sigma</var>) is used. If <var>sigma</var> is not given it
89defaults to 1.</p>
90
91<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +000092 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="adjoin"></a>-adjoin</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +000093</div>
94
95<p class="magick-description">Join images into a single multi-image file.</p>
96
97<p>This option is enabled by default. An attempt is made to save all images of
98an image sequence into the given output file. However, some formats, such as
99JPEG and PNG, do not support more than one image per file, and in that case
100ImageMagick is forced to write each image as a separate file. As such, if
101more than one image needs to be written, the filename given is modified by
102adding a <a href="command-line-options.html#scene">-scene</a> number before the suffix, in order to
103make distinct names for each image. </p>
104
105<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#adjoin">+adjoin</a> to force each image to be written to
106separate files, whether or not the file format allows multiple images per file
107(for example, GIF, MIFF, and TIFF). </p>
108
109<p>Including a C-style integer format string in the output filename will
110automagically enable <a href="command-line-options.html#adjoin">+adjoin</a> and are used to specify
111where the <a href="command-line-options.html#scene">-scene</a> number is placed in the filenames. These
112strings, such as '<code>%d</code>' or '<code>%03d</code>', are familiar to those
113who have used the standard <code>printf()</code>' C-library function. As an
114example, the command</p>
115
116<pre>
117convert logo: rose: -morph 15 my%02dmorph.jpg
118</pre>
119
120<p>will create a sequence of 17 images (the two given plus 15 more created by
121<a href="command-line-options.html#morph">-morph</a>), named: my00morph.jpg, my01morph.jpg,
122my02morph.jpg, ..., my16morph.jpg. </p>
123
124<p>In summary, ImageMagick tries to write all images to one file, but will
125save to multiple files, if any of the following conditions exist...</p>
126<ol>
127<li>the output image's file format does not allow multi-image files,</li>
128<li>the <a href="command-line-options.html#adjoin">+adjoin</a> option is given, or</li>
129<li>a printf() integer format string (eg: "%d") is present in the output
130 filename.</li>
131</ol>
132
133
134<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000135 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="affine"></a>-affine
136 <var>s<sub>x</sub></var>,<var>r<sub>x</sub></var>,<var>r<sub>y</sub></var>,<var>s<sub>y</sub></var>[,<var>t<sub>x</sub></var>,<var>t<sub>y</sub></var>]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000137</div>
138
139<p class="magick-description">Set the drawing transformation matrix for combined rotating and scaling.</p>
140
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000141<p>This option sets a transformation matrix, for use by subsequent <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#transform">-transform</a> options. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000142
143<p>The matrix entries are entered as comma-separated numeric values either in
144quotes or without spaces. </p>
145
146<p>Internally, the transformation matrix has 3x3 elements, but three of them
147are omitted from the input because they are constant. The new (transformed)
148coordinates (<var>x'</var>, <var>y'</var>) of a pixel at
149position (<var>x</var>, <var>y</var>) in the original
150image are calculated using the following matrix equation.</p>
151
152<div class="eqn">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000153<img alt="affine transformation" src="../images/affine.png">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000154</div>
155
156<p> The size of the resulting image is that of the smallest rectangle that
157contains the transformed source image. The parameters
158<var>t<sub>x</sub></var> and <var>t<sub>y</sub></var>
159subsequently shift the image pixels so that those that are moved out of the
160image area are cut off.</p>
161
162<p>The transformation matrix complies with the left-handed pixel coordinate
163system: positive <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> directions
164are rightward and downward, resp.; positive rotation is clockwise.</p>
165
166<p> If the translation coefficients <var>t<sub>x</sub></var> and
167<var>t<sub>y</sub></var> are omitted they default to 0,0. Therefore,
168four parameters suffice for rotation and scaling without translation.</p>
169
170<p>Scaling by the factors <var>s<sub>x</sub></var> and
171<var>s<sub>y</sub></var> in the <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> directions,
172respectively, is accomplished with the following.</p>
173
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000174<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#transform">-transform</a>, and the <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a> method '<code>Affineprojection</code> for more
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000175information </p>
176
177
178<pre>
179-affine <var>s<sub>x</sub></var>,0,0,<var>s<sub>y</sub></var>
180</pre>
181
182<p>Translation by a displacement (<var>t<sub>x</sub></var>, <var>t<sub>y</sub></var>) is accomplished like so:</p>
183
184<pre>
185-affine 1,0,0,1,<var>t<sub>x</sub></var>,<var>t<sub>y</sub></var>
186</pre>
187
188<p>Rotate clockwise about the origin (the upper left-hand corner) by an angle
189<var>a</var> by letting <var>c</var> = cos(<var>a</var>), <var>s</var>
190= sin(<var>a</var>), and using the following.</p>
191
192<pre>
193-affine <var>c</var>,<var>s</var>,-<var>s</var>,<var>c</var>
194</pre>
195
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000196<p>The cumulative effect of a sequence of <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a>
197transformations can be accomplished by instead by a single <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a> operation using the matrix equal to the product of the matrices
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000198of the individual transformations.</p>
199
200<p>An attempt is made to detect near-singular transformation matrices. If the
201matrix determinant has a sufficiently small absolute value it is rejected.</p>
202
203<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000204 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="alpha"></a>-alpha <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000205</div>
206
207<p class="magick-description">Gives control of the alpha/matte channel of an image.</p>
208
209<p>Used to set a flag on an image indicating whether or not to use existing alpha
210channel data, to create an alpha channel, or to perform other operations on the alpha channel. Choose the argument <var>type</var> from the list below.</p>
211
212
213<div class="table-responsive">
214<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
215 <tbody>
216 <tr>
217 <th>Type</th>
218 <th>Description</th>
219 </tr>
220
221 <tr>
222 <td><code>Activate</code> or <code>On</code></td>
223 <td>
224 Enable the image's transparency channel. Note normally <code>Set</code>
225 should be used instead of this, unless you specifically need to
226 preserve existing (but specifically turned <code>Off</code>) transparency
227 channel. </td></tr>
228
229 <tr>
230 <td><code>Associate</code></td>
231 <td>
232 associate the alpha channel with the image.</td></tr>
233
234 <tr>
235 <td><code>Deactivate</code> or <code>Off</code></td>
236 <td>
237 Disables the image's transparency channel. Does not delete or change the
238 existing data, just turns off the use of that data.</td></tr>
239
240 <tr>
241 <td><code>Disassociate</code></td>
242 <td>
243 disassociate the alpha channel from the image.</td></tr>
244
245 <tr>
246 <td><code>Set</code></td>
247 <td>
248 Activates the alpha/matte channel. If it was previously turned off
249 then it also resets the channel to opaque. If the image already had
250 the alpha channel turned on, it will have no effect.</td></tr>
251
252 <tr>
253 <td><code>Opaque</code></td>
254 <td>
255 Enables the alpha/matte channel and forces it to be fully opaque.
256 </td></tr>
257
258 <tr>
259 <td><code>Transparent</code></td>
260 <td>
261 Activates the alpha/matte channel and forces it to be fully
262 transparent. This effectively creates a fully transparent image the
263 same size as the original and with all its original RGB data still
264 intact, but fully transparent. </td></tr>
265
266 <tr>
267 <td><code>Extract</code></td>
268 <td>
269 Copies the alpha channel values into all the color channels and turns
270 '<code>Off</code>' the the image's transparency, so as to generate
271 a gray-scale mask of the image's shape. The alpha channel data is left
272 intact just deactivated. This is the inverse of '<code>Copy</code>'.
273 </td></tr>
274
275 <tr>
276 <td><code>Copy</code></td>
277 <td>
278 Turns '<code>On</code>' the alpha/matte channel, then copies the
279 gray-scale intensity of the image, into the alpha channel, converting
280 a gray-scale mask into a transparent shaped mask ready to be colored
281 appropriately. The color channels are not modified. </td></tr>
282
283 <tr>
284 <td><code>Shape</code></td>
285 <td>
286 As per '<code>Copy</code>' but also colors the resulting shape mask with
287 the current background color. That is the RGB color channels is
288 replaced, with appropriate alpha shape.
289 </td></tr>
290
291 <tr>
292 <td><code>Remove</code></td>
293 <td>
294 Composite the image over the background color.
295 </td></tr>
296
297 <tr>
298 <td><code>Background</code></td>
299 <td>
300 Set any fully-transparent pixel to the background color, while leaving
301 it fully-transparent. This can make some image file formats, such as
302 PNG, smaller as the RGB values of transparent pixels are more uniform,
303 and thus can compress better.
304 </td></tr>
305 </tbody>
306</table>
307</div>
308
309<p>Note that while the obsolete <code>+matte</code> operation was the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000310same as "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a> Off</code>", the <code>
311&gt;-matte</code> operation was the same as "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a>
312Set</code>" and not "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a> On</code>". </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000313
314
315<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000316 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="annotate"></a>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000317 -annotate <var>degrees</var> <var>text</var><br>
318 -annotate <var>Xdegrees</var>x<var>Ydegrees</var> <var>text</var><br> -annotate <var>Xdegrees</var>x<var>Ydegrees</var> {+-}<var>t<sub>x</sub></var>{+-}<var>t<sub>y</sub></var> <var>text</var><br> -annotate {+-}<var>t<sub>x</sub></var>{+-}<var>t<sub>y</sub></var> <var>text</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000319</div>
320
321<p class="magick-description">Annotate an image with text</p>
322
323<p>This is a convenience for annotating an image with text. For more precise
324control over text annotations, use <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a>.</p>
325
326
327<p>The values <var>Xdegrees</var> and <var>Ydegrees</var>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000328control the shears applied to the text, while <var>t<sub>x</sub></var> and <var>t<sub>y</sub></var> are offsets that give the location of the text relative any <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting and defaults to the upper left corner of the image.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000329
330<p>Using <a href="command-line-options.html#annotate">-annotate</a> <var>degrees</var>
331or <a href="command-line-options.html#annotate">-annotate</a> <var>degrees</var>x<var>degrees</var> produces an unsheared rotation of the text. The
332direction of the rotation is positive, which means a clockwise rotation if <var>degrees</var> is positive. (This conforms to the usual mathematical
333convention once it is realized that the positive <var>y</var>–direction is
334conventionally considered to be <var>downward</var> for images.)</p>
335
336<p>The new (transformed) coordinates (<var>x'</var>, <var>y'</var>) of a pixel at position (<var>x</var>, <var>y</var>) in the image are calculated using the following matrix
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000337equation.</p> <div class="eqn"><img alt="annotate transformation" src="../images/annotate.png"></div>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000338
339<p>If <var>t<sub>x</sub></var> and <var>t<sub>y</sub></var> are omitted, they default to 0. This makes the
340bottom-left of the text becomes the upper-left corner of the image, which is
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000341probably undesirable. Adding a <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option in this
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000342case leads to nice results.</p>
343
344<p>Text is any UTF-8 encoded character sequence. If <var>text</var>
345is of the form '@mytext.txt', the text is read from the file
346<code>mytext.txt</code>. Text in a file is taken literally; no embedded
347formatting characters are recognized.</p>
348
349<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000350 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="antialias"></a>-antialias</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000351</div>
352
353<p class="magick-description">Enable/Disable of the rendering of anti-aliasing pixels when drawing fonts and lines.</p>
354
355<p>By default, objects (e.g. text, lines, polygons, etc.) are antialiased when
356drawn. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#antialias">+antialias</a> to disable the addition of
357antialiasing edge pixels. This will then reduce the number of colors added to
358an image to just the colors being directly drawn. That is, no mixed colors
359are added when drawing such objects. </p>
360
361<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000362 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="append"></a>-append</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000363</div>
364
365<p class="magick-description">Join current images vertically or horizontally.</p>
366
367<p>This option creates a single longer image, by joining all the current
368images in sequence top-to-bottom. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#append">+append</a> to
369stack images left-to-right. </p>
370
371<p>If they are not of the same width, narrower images are padded with the
372current <a href="command-line-options.html#background">-background</a> color setting, and their
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000373position relative to each other can be controlled by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000374
375
376<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000377 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="attenuate"></a>-attenuate <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000378</div>
379
380<p class="magick-description">Lessen (or intensify) when adding noise to an image.</p>
381
382<p>If unset the value is equivalent to 1.0, or a maximum noise addition</p>
383
384<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000385 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="authenticate"></a>-authenticate <var>password</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000386</div>
387
388<p class="magick-description">Decrypt a PDF with a password.</p>
389
390<p>Use this option to supply a <var>password</var> for decrypting
391a PDF that has been encrypted using Microsoft Crypto API (MSC API). The
392encrypting using the MSC API is not supported.</p>
393
394<p>For a different encryption method, see <a href="command-line-options.html#encipher">-encipher</a>
395and <a href="command-line-options.html#decipher">-decipher</a>. </p>
396
397
398<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000399 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="auto-gamma"></a>-auto-gamma</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000400</div>
401
402<p class="magick-description">Automagically adjust gamma level of image.</p>
403
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000404<p>This calculates the mean values of an image, then applies a calculated <a href="command-line-options.html#gamma">-gamma</a> adjustment so that is the mean color exists in the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000405image it will get a have a value of 50%. </p>
406
407<p>This means that any solid 'gray' image becomes 50% gray. </p>
408
409<p>This works well for real-life images with little or no extreme dark and
410light areas, but tend to fail for images with large amounts of bright sky or
411dark shadows. It also does not work well for diagrams or cartoon like images.
412</p>
413
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000414<p>It uses the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting, (including the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000415'<var>sync</var>' flag for channel synchronization), to determine which color
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000416values is used and modified. As the default <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting is '<var>RGB,sync</var>', channels are modified
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000417together by the same gamma value, preserving colors. </p>
418
419
420
421<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000422 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="auto-level"></a>-auto-level</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000423</div>
424
425<p class="magick-description">Automagically adjust color levels of image.</p>
426
427<p>This is a 'perfect' image normalization operator. It finds the exact
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000428minimum and maximum color values in the image and then applies a <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> operator to stretch the values to the full range of
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000429values. </p>
430
431<p>The operator is not typically used for real-life images, image scans, or
432JPEG format images, as a single 'out-rider' pixel can set a bad min/max values
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000433for the <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> operation. On the other hand it is the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000434right operator to use for color stretching gradient images being used to
435generate Color lookup tables, distortion maps, or other 'mathematically'
436defined images. </p>
437
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000438<p>The operator is very similar to the <a href="command-line-options.html#normalize">-normalize</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#linear-stretch">-linear-stretch</a> operators, but without 'histogram binning' or 'clipping'
439problems that these operators may have. That is <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> is the perfect or ideal version these operators. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000440
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000441<p>It uses the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting, (including the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000442special '<var>sync</var>' flag for channel synchronization), to determine
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000443which color values are used and modified. As the default <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">+channel</a> setting is '<var>RGB,sync</var>', the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000444'<var>sync</var>' ensures that the color channels will are modified
445together by the same gamma value, preserving colors, and ignoring
446transparency. </p>
447
448
449<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000450 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="auto-orient"></a>-auto-orient</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000451</div>
452
453<p class="magick-description">adjusts an image so that its orientation is suitable for viewing (i.e. top-left orientation).</p>
454
455<p>This operator reads and resets the EXIF image profile setting 'Orientation'
456and then performs the appropriate 90 degree rotation on the image to orient
457the image, for correct viewing. </p>
458
459<p>This EXIF profile setting is usually set using a gravity sensor in digital
460camera, however photos taken directly downward or upward may not have an
461appropriate value. Also images that have been orientation 'corrected' without
462reseting this setting, may be 'corrected' again resulting in a incorrect
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000463result. If the EXIF profile was previously stripped, the <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-orient">-auto-orient</a> operator will do nothing. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000464
465
466<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000467 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="average"></a>-average</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000468</div>
469
470<p class="magick-description">Average a set of images.</p>
471
472<p>An error results if the images are not identically sized.</p>
473
474
475<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000476 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="backdrop"></a>-backdrop</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000477</div>
478
479<p class="magick-description">Display the image centered on a backdrop.</p>
480
481<p>This backdrop covers the entire workstation screen and is useful for hiding
482other X window activity while viewing the image. The color of the backdrop is
483specified as the background color. The color is specified using the format
484described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
485
486<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000487 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="background"></a>-background <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000488</div>
489
490<p class="magick-description">Set the background color.</p>
491
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000492<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option. The default background color (if none is
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000493specified or found in the image) is white.</p>
494
495<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000496 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="bench"></a>-bench <var>iterations</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000497</div>
498
499<p class="magick-description">Measure performance.</p>
500
501<p>Repeat the entire command for the given number of <var>iterations</var> and report the user-time and elapsed time. For instance,
502consider the following command and its output. Modify the benchmark with the
503-duration to run the benchmark for a fixed number of seconds and -concurrent
504to run the benchmark in parallel (requires the OpenMP feature).</p>
505
506<pre>
507convert logo: -resize 1000% -bench 5 logo.png
508Performance[4]: 5i 0.875657ips 6.880u 0:05.710
509</pre>
510
511<p>In this example, 5 iterations were completed at 0.875657 iterations per
512second, using 4 threads and 6.88 seconds of the user's allotted time, for
513a total elapsed time of 5.71 seconds.</p>
514
515<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000516 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="bias"></a>-bias <var>value</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000517</div>
518
519<p class="magick-description">Add bias when convolving an image.</p>
520
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000521<p>This option shifts the output of <a href="command-line-options.html#convolve">‑convolve</a> so that
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000522positive and negative results are relative to the specified bias value. </p>
523
524<p>This is important for non-HDRI compilations of ImageMagick when dealing
525with convolutions that contain negative as well as positive values. This is
526especially the case with convolutions involving high pass filters or edge
527detection. Without an output bias, the negative values are clipped at
528zero.</p>
529
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000530<p>When using an ImageMagick with the HDRI compile-time setting, <a href="command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> is not needed, as ImageMagick is able to store/handle any
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000531negative results without clipping to the color value range
532(0..QuantumRange).</p>
533
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000534<p>See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page <a href="high-dynamic-range.html">High Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more
535about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages or this
536<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000537entry. </p>
538
539<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000540 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="black-point-compensation"></a>-black-point-compensation</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000541</div>
542
543<p class="magick-description">Use black point compensation.</p>
544
545<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000546 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="black-threshold"></a>-black-threshold <var>value</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000547</div>
548
549<p class="magick-description">Force to black all pixels below the threshold while leaving all pixels at or above the threshold unchanged.</p>
550
551<p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer
552value within [0, <var>QuantumRange</var>] corresponding to the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000553desired <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a> value. See <a href="command-line-options.html#threshold">‑threshold</a>for more details on thresholds and resulting values. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000554
555
556<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000557 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="blend"></a>-blend <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000558</div>
559
560<p class="magick-description">blend an image into another by the given absolute value or percent.</p>
561
562<p>Blend will average the images together ('plus') according to the
563percentages given and each pixels transparency. If only a single percentage
564value is given it sets the weight of the composite or 'source' image, while
565the background image is weighted by the exact opposite amount. That is a
566<code>-blend 30%</code> merges 30% of the 'source' image with 70% of the
567'destination' image. Thus it is equivalent to <code>-blend 30x70%</code>.</p>
568
569
570<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000571 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="blue-primary"></a>-blue-primary <var>x</var>,<var>y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000572</div>
573
574<p class="magick-description">Set the blue chromaticity primary point.</p>
575
576<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000577 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="blue-shift"></a>-blue-shift <var>factor</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000578</div>
579
580<p class="magick-description">simulate a scene at nighttime in the moonlight. Start with a factor of 1.5</p>
581
582<div style="margin: auto;">
583
584<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000585 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="blur"></a>-blur <var>radius</var><br>-blur <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000586</div>
587
588<p class="magick-description">Reduce image noise and reduce detail levels.</p>
589
590<p>Convolve the image with a Gaussian or normal distribution using the given
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000591<var>Sigma</var> value. The formula is:</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000592
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000593<div class="eqn"><img alt="gaussian distribution" width="243px" height="42px" src="../images/gaussian-blur.png">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000594</div>
595
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000596<p>The <var>Sigma</var> value is the important argument, and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000597determines the actual amount of blurring that will take place. </p>
598
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000599<p>The <var>Radius</var> is only used to determine the size of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000600array which will hold the calculated Gaussian distribution. It should be an
601integer. If not given, or set to zero, IM will calculate the largest possible
602radius that will provide meaningful results for the Gaussian distribution.
603</p>
604
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000605<p>The larger the <var>Radius</var> the slower the
606operation is. However too small a <var>Radius</var>, and sever
607aliasing effects may result. As a guideline, <var>Radius</var>
608should be at least twice the <var>Sigma</var> value, though three
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000609times will produce a more accurate result. </p>
610
611<p>This option differs from <a href="command-line-options.html#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a> simply
612by taking advantage of the separability properties of the distribution. Here
613we apply a single-dimensional Gaussian matrix in the horizontal direction,
614then repeat the process in the vertical direction.</p>
615
616<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
617pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
618</p>
619
620
621<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000622 <h3 class="magick-header">-blur <var>Width</var>[x<var>Height</var>[+<var>Angle</var>]]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000623</div>
624
625<p class="magick-description">Variably blur an image according to the overlay mapping.</p>
626
627<p>Each pixel in the overlaid region is replaced with an Elliptical Weighted
628Average (EWA) of the source image, scaled according to the grayscale
629mapping. </p>
630
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000631<p>The ellipse is weighted with sigma set to the given <var>Width</var> and <var>Height</var>. The <var>Height</var>
632defaults to the <var>Width</var> for a normal circular Gaussian
633weighting. The <var>Angle</var> will rotate the ellipse from
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000634horizontal clock-wise. </p>
635
636<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
637pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
638</p>
639
640
641<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000642 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="border"></a>-border <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000643</div>
644
645<p class="magick-description">Surround the image with a border of color. </p>
646
647<p>Set the width and height using the <var>size</var> portion of the
648<var>geometry</var> argument. See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets are
649ignored. </p>
650
651<p>As of IM 6.7.8-8, the <var>geometry</var> arguments behave as follows:</p>
652
653<table id="borderTable">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000654 <col width="20%"> <col width="80%">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000655 <thead>
656 <tr>
657 <th style="text-align:center"><var>size</var></th>
658 <th>General description</th>
659 </tr>
660 </thead>
661 <tbody>
662 <tr>
663 <td><var>value</var></td>
664 <td>value is added to both left/right and top/bottom</td>
665 </tr>
666 <tr>
667 <td><var>value-x</var>x</td>
668 <td>value-x is added only to left/right and top/bottom are unchanged</td>
669 </tr>
670 <tr>
671 <td>x<var>value-y</var></td>
672 <td>value-y is added only to top/bottom and left/right are unchanged</td>
673 </tr>
674 <tr>
675 <td><var>value-x</var>x<var>value-y</var></td>
676 <td>value-x is added to left/right and value-y added to top/bottom</td>
677 </tr>
678 <tr>
679 <td><var>value-x</var>x<code>0</code></td>
680 <td>value-x is added only to left/right and top/bottom are unchanged</td>
681 </tr>
682 <tr>
683 <td><code>0</code>x<var>value-y</var></td>
684 <td>value-y is added only to top/bottom and left/right are unchanged</td>
685 </tr>
686 <tr>
687 <td> </td>
688 <td> </td>
689 </tr>
690 <tr>
691 <td><var>value</var>%</td>
692 <td>value % of width is added to left/right and value % of height is added to top/bottom</td>
693 </tr>
694 <tr>
695 <td><var>value-x</var>x%</td>
696 <td>value-x % of width is added to left/right and to top/bottom</td>
697 </tr>
698 <tr>
699 <td>x<var>value-y</var>%</td>
700 <td>value-y % of height is added to top/bottom and to left/right</td>
701 </tr>
702 <tr>
703 <td><var>value-x</var>%x<var>value-y</var>%</td>
704 <td>value-x % of width is added to left/right and value-y % of height is added to top/bottom</td>
705 </tr>
706 <tr>
707 <td><var>value-x</var>%x<code>0</code>%</td>
708 <td>value-x % of width is added to left/right and top/bottom are unchanged</td>
709 </tr>
710 <tr>
711 <td><code>0</code>%x<var>value-y</var>%</td>
712 <td>value-y % of height is added to top/bottom and left/right are unchanged</td>
713 </tr>
714 </tbody>
715 </table>
716
717
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000718<p>Set the border color by preceding with the <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000719
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000720<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#border">-border</a> operation is affected by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> setting and assumes that this is using the default
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000721'<code>Over</code>' composition method. It generates an image of the appropriate
722size colors by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> before
723overlaying the original image in the center of this net image. This means that
724with the default compose method of '<code>Over</code>' any transparent parts may
725be replaced by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
726<p>See also the <a href="command-line-options.html#frame">-frame</a> option, which has more
727functionality.</p>
728
729<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000730 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="bordercolor"></a>-bordercolor <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000731</div>
732
733<p class="magick-description">Set the border color.</p>
734
735<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
736
737<p>The default border color is <code>#DFDFDF</code>, <span style="background-color: #dfdfdf;">this shade of gray</span>.</p>
738
739<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000740 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="borderwidth"></a>-borderwidth <var>geometry</var> </h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000741</div>
742
743<p class="magick-description">Set the border width.</p>
744
745<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000746 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="brightness-contrast"></a>-brightness-contrast <var>brightness</var><br>-brightness-contrast <var>brightness</var>{x<var>contrast</var>}{<var>%</var>}}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000747</div>
748
749<p class="magick-description">Adjust the brightness and/or contrast of the image.</p>
750
751<p>Brightness and Contrast values apply changes to the input image. They are
752not absolute settings. A brightness or contrast value of zero means no change.
753The range of values is -100 to +100 on each. Positive values increase the
754brightness or contrast and negative values decrease the brightness or contrast.
755To control only contrast, set the brightness=0. To control only brightness,
756set contrast=0 or just leave it off.</p>
757
758<p>You may also use <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-channel</a> to control which channels to
759apply the brightness and/or contrast change. The default is to apply the same
760transformation to all channels.</p>
761
762<p>Brightness and Contrast arguments are converted to offset and slope of a
763linear transform and applied
764using <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-function polynomial "slope,offset"</a>.</p>
765
766<p>The slope varies from 0 at contrast=-100 to almost vertical at
767contrast=+100. For brightness=0 and contrast=-100, the result are totally
768midgray. For brightness=0 and contrast=+100, the result will approach but
769not quite reach a threshold at midgray; that is the linear transformation
770is a very steep vertical line at mid gray.</p>
771
772<p>Negative slopes, i.e. negating the image, are not possible with this
773function. All achievable slopes are zero or positive.</p>
774
775<p>The offset varies from -0.5 at brightness=-100 to 0 at brightness=0 to +0.5
776at brightness=+100. Thus, when contrast=0 and brightness=100, the result is
777totally white. Similarly, when contrast=0 and brightness=-100, the result is
778totally black.</p>
779
780<p>As the range of values for the arguments are -100 to +100, adding the '%'
781symbol is no different than leaving it off.</p>
782
783<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000784 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="cache"></a>-cache <var>threshold</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000785</div>
786
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000787<p class="magick-description">(This option has been replaced by the <a href="command-line-options.html#limit">-limit</a> option).</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000788
789<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000790 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="canny"></a>-canny <var>radius</var><br>-canny <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var>{<var>+lower-percent</var>}{<var>+upper-percent</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000791</div>
792
793<p class="magick-description">Canny edge detector uses a multi-stage algorithm to detect a wide range of edges in the image.</p>
794
795<p>The thresholds range from 0 to 100% (e.g. -canny 0x1+10%+30%) with {<var>+lower-percent</var>} &lt; {<var>+upper-percent</var>}. If {<var>+upper-percent</var>} is increased but {<var>+lower-percent</var>} remains the same, lesser edge components will be detected, but their lengths will be the same. If {<var>+lower-percent</var>} is increased but {<var>+upper-percent</var>} is the same, the same number of edge components will be detected but their lengths will be shorter. The default thresholds are shown. The <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var> controls a gaussian blur applied to the input image to reduce noise and smooth the edges.</p>
796
797<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000798 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="caption"></a>-caption <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000799</div>
800
801<p class="magick-description">Assign a caption to an image.</p>
802
803<p>This option sets the caption meta-data of an image read in after this
804option has been given. To modify a caption of images already in memory use
805"<code><a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> caption</code>". </p>
806
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000807<p>The caption can contain special format characters listed in the <a href="escape.html">Format and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000808Print Image Properties</a>. These attributes are expanded when the caption
809is finally assigned to the individual images. </p>
810
811<p>If the first character of <var>string</var> is <var>@</var>, the image caption is read from a file titled by the
812remaining characters in the string. Comments read in from a file are literal;
813no embedded formatting characters are recognized.</p>
814
815<p>Caption meta-data is not visible on the image itself. To do that use the
816<a href="command-line-options.html#annotate">-annotate</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> options
817instead.</p>
818
819<p>For example,</p>
820
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000821<pre>
822-caption "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
823</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000824
825<p>produces an image caption of <code>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</code> (assuming
826that the image <code>bird.miff</code> has a width of 512 and a height of
827480.</p>
828
829
830<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000831 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="cdl"></a>-cdl <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000832</div>
833
834<p class="magick-description">color correct with a color decision list.</p>
835
836<p>Here is an example color correction collection:</p>
837
838<pre>
839&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
840&lt;ColorCorrectionCollection xmlns="urn:ASC:CDL:v1.2"&gt;
841 &lt;ColorCorrection id="cc06668"&gt;
842 &lt;SOPNode&gt;
843 &lt;Slope&gt; 0.9 1.2 0.5 &lt;/Slope&gt;
844 &lt;Offset&gt; 0.4 -0.5 0.6 &lt;/Offset&gt;
845 &lt;Power&gt; 1.0 0.8 1.5 &lt;/Power&gt;
846 &lt;/SOPNode&gt;
847 &lt;SATNode&gt;
848 &lt;Saturation&gt; 0.85 &lt;/Saturation&gt;
849 &lt;/SATNode&gt;
850 &lt;/ColorCorrection&gt;
851&lt;/ColorCorrectionCollection&gt;
852</pre>
853
854<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000855 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="channel"></a>-channel <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000856</div>
857
858<p class="magick-description">Specify those image color channels to which subsequent operators are limited.</p>
859
860<p>Choose from: <code>Red</code>, <code>Green</code>, <code>Blue</code>,
861<code>Alpha</code>, <code>Gray</code>, <code>Cyan</code>, <code>Magenta</code>,
862<code>Yellow</code>, <code>Black</code>, <code>Opacity</code>,
863<code>Index</code>, <code>RGB</code>, <code>RGBA</code>, <code>CMYK</code>, or
864<code>CMYKA</code>.</p>
865
866<p>The channels above can also be specified as a comma-separated list or can be
867abbreviated as a concatenation of the letters '<code>R</code>', '<code>G</code>',
868'<code>B</code>', '<code>A</code>', '<code>O</code>', '<code>C</code>',
869'<code>M</code>', '<code>Y</code>', '<code>K</code>'.
870
871For example, to only select the <code>Red</code> and <code>Blue</code> channels
872you can either use </p>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000873<pre>
874-channel Red,Blue
875</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000876<p>or you can use the short hand form</p>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000877<pre>
878-channel RB
879</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000880
881<p>All the channels that are present in an image can be specified using the
882special channel type <code>All</code>. Not all operators are 'channel capable',
883but generally any operators that are generally 'grey-scale' image operators,
884will understand this setting. See individual operator documentation. </p>
885
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000886<br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000887
888<p>On top of the normal channel selection an extra flag can be specified,
889'<code>Sync</code>'. This is turned on by default and if set means that
890operators that understand this flag should perform: cross-channel
891synchronization of the channels. If not specified, then most grey-scale
892operators will apply their image processing operations to each individual
893channel (as specified by the rest of the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
894setting) completely independently from each other. </p>
895
896<p>For example for operators such as <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> and
897<a href="command-line-options.html#auto-gamma">-auto-gamma</a> the color channels are modified
898together in exactly the same way so that colors will remain in-sync. Without
899it being set, then each channel is modified separately and
900independently, which may produce color distortion. </p>
901
902<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a> '<code>Convolve</code>' method
903and the <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> mathematical methods, also understands
904the '<code>Sync</code>' flag to modify the behaviour of pixel colors according
905to the alpha channel (if present). That is to say it will modify the image
906processing with the understanding that fully-transparent colors should not
907contribute to the final result. </p>
908
909<p>Basically, by default, operators work with color channels in synchronous, and
910treats transparency as special, unless the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
911setting is modified so as to remove the effect of the '<code>Sync</code>' flag.
912How each operator does this depends on that operators current implementation.
913Not all operators understands this flag at this time, but that is changing.
914</p>
915
916<p>To print a complete list of channel types, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
917channel</a>.</p>
918
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000919<br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000920
921<p>By default, ImageMagick sets <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> to the value
922'<code>RGBK,sync</code>', which specifies that operators act on all color
923channels except the transparency channel, and that all the color channels are
924to be modified in exactly the same way, with an understanding of transparency
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000925(depending on the operation being applied). The 'plus' form <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">+channel</a> will reset the value back to this default. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000926
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000927<p>Options that are affected by the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000928include the following.
929
930<a href="command-line-options.html#auto-gamma">-auto-gamma</a>,
931<a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a>,
932<a href="command-line-options.html#black-threshold">-black-threshold</a>,
933<a href="command-line-options.html#blur">-blur</a>,
934<a href="command-line-options.html#clamp">-clamp</a>,
935<a href="command-line-options.html#clut">-clut</a>,
936<a href="command-line-options.html#combine">-combine</a>,
937<a href="command-line-options.html#composite">-composite</a> (Mathematical compose methods only),
938<a href="command-line-options.html#convolve">-convolve</a>,
939<a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a>,
940<a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a>,
941<a href="command-line-options.html#function">-function</a>,
942<a href="command-line-options.html#fx">-fx</a>,
943<a href="command-line-options.html#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a>,
944<a href="command-line-options.html#hald-clut">-hald-clut</a>,
945<a href="command-line-options.html#motion-blur">-motion-blur</a>,
946<a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a>,
947<a href="command-line-options.html#negate">-negate</a>,
948<a href="command-line-options.html#normalize">-normalize</a>,
949<a href="command-line-options.html#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a>,
950<a href="command-line-options.html#radial-blur">-radial-blur</a>,
951<a href="command-line-options.html#random-threshold">-random-threshold</a>,
952<a href="command-line-options.html#separate">-separate</a>,
953<a href="command-line-options.html#threshold">-threshold</a>, and
954<a href="command-line-options.html#white-threshold">-white-threshold</a>.
955</p>
956
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000957<p>Warning, some operators behave differently when the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">+channel</a> default setting is in effect, verses ANY user defined <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting (including the equivalent of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000958default). These operators have yet to be made to understand the newer 'Sync'
959flag. </p>
960
961<p>For example <a href="command-line-options.html#threshold">-threshold</a> will by default gray-scale
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000962the image before thresholding, if no <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000963has been defined. This is not 'Sync flag controlled, yet. </p>
964
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000965<p>Also some operators such as <a href="command-line-options.html#blur">-blur</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a>, will modify their handling of the
966color channels if the '<code>alpha</code>' channel is also enabled by <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>. Generally this done to ensure that
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000967fully-transparent colors are treated as being fully-transparent, and thus any
968underlying 'hidden' color has no effect on the final results. Typically
969resulting in 'halo' effects. The newer <a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a>
970convolution equivalents however does have a understanding of the 'Sync' flag
971and will thus handle transparency correctly by default. </p>
972
973<p>As a alpha channel is optional within images, some operators will read the
974color channels of an image as a greyscale alpha mask, when the image has no
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +0000975alpha channel present, and the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting tells
976the operator to apply the operation using alpha channels. The <a href="command-line-options.html#clut">-clut</a> operator is a good example of this. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000977
978
979
980<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000981 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="charcoal"></a>-charcoal <var>factor</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000982</div>
983
984<p class="magick-description">Simulate a charcoal drawing.</p>
985
986<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +0000987 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="chop"></a>-chop <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +0000988</div>
989
990<p class="magick-description">Remove pixels from the interior of an image.</p>
991
992<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <var>width</var>
993and <var>height</var> given in the of the <var>size</var>
994portion of the <var>geometry</var> argument give the number of
995columns and rows to remove. The <var>offset</var> portion of
996the <var>geometry</var> argument is influenced by
997a <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting, if present.</p>
998
999<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#chop">-chop</a> option removes entire rows and columns,
1000and moves the remaining corner blocks leftward and upward to close the gaps.</p>
1001
1002<p>While it can remove internal rows and columns of pixels, it is more
1003typically used with as <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting and zero
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001004offsets so as to remove a single edge from an image. Compare this to <a href="command-line-options.html#shave">-shave</a> which removes equal numbers of pixels from oppisite
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001005sides of the image. </p>
1006
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001007<p>Using <a href="command-line-options.html#chop">-chop</a> effectively undoes the results of a <a href="command-line-options.html#splice">-splice</a> that was given the same <var>geometry</var> and <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> settings. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001008
1009<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001010 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clamp"></a>-clamp</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001011</div>
1012
1013<p class="magick-description">set each pixel whose value is below zero to zero and any the pixel whose value is above the quantum range to the quantum range (e.g. 65535) otherwise the pixel value remains unchanged.</p>
1014
1015<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001016 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clip"></a>-clip</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001017</div>
1018
1019<p class="magick-description">Apply the clipping path if one is present.</p>
1020
1021<p>If a clipping path is present, it is applied to subsequent operations.</p>
1022
1023<p>For example, in the command</p>
1024
1025<pre>
1026convert cockatoo.tif -clip -negate negated.tif
1027</pre>
1028
1029<p>only the pixels within the clipping path are negated.</p>
1030
1031<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#clip">-clip</a> feature requires SVG support. If the SVG
1032delegate library is not present, the option is ignored.</p>
1033
1034<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#clip">+clip</a> to disable clipping for subsequent operations.</p>
1035
1036<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001037 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clip-mask"></a>-clip-mask</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001038</div>
1039
1040<p class="magick-description">Clip the image as defined by this mask.</p>
1041
1042<p>Use the alpha channel of the current image as a mask. Any areas that is
1043white is not modified by any of the 'image processing operators' that follow,
1044until the mask is removed. Pixels in the black areas of the clip mask are
1045modified per the requirements of the operator. </p>
1046
1047<p>In some ways this is similar to (though not the same) as defining
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001048a rectangular <a href="command-line-options.html#region">-region</a>, or using the negative of the
1049mask (third) image in a three image <a href="command-line-options.html#composite">-composite</a>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001050operation. </p>
1051
1052<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#clip-mask">+clip-mask</a> to disable clipping for subsequent operations.</p>
1053
1054<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001055 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clip-path"></a>-clip-path <var>id</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001056</div>
1057
1058<p class="magick-description">Clip along a named path from the 8BIM profile.</p>
1059
1060<p>This is identical to <a href="command-line-options.html#clip">-clip</a> except choose a specific clip path in the event the image has more than one path available. </p>
1061
1062<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#clip-path">+clip-path</a> to disable clipping for subsequent operations.</p>
1063
1064<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001065 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clone"></a>-clone <var>index(s)</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001066</div>
1067
1068<p class="magick-description">make a clone of an image (or images).</p>
1069
1070<p>Inside parenthesis (where the operator is normally used) it will make a
1071clone of the images from the last 'pushed' image sequence, and adds them to
1072the end of the current image sequence. Outside parenthesis
1073(not recommended) it clones the images from the current image sequence. </p>
1074
1075<p>Specify the image by its index in the sequence. The first image is index
10760. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the sequence; for
1077example, <code>−1</code>
1078represents the last image of the sequence. Specify a range of images with a
1079dash (e.g. <code>0−4</code>). Separate multiple indexes with commas but no
1080spaces (e.g. <code>0,2,5</code>). A value of '<code>0−−1</code> will
1081effectively clone all the images. </p>
1082
1083<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#clone">+clone</a> will simply make a copy of the last image
1084in the image sequence, and is thus equivalent to using a argument of
1085'<code>−1</code>'. </p>
1086
1087<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001088 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="clut"></a>-clut</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001089</div>
1090
1091<p class="magick-description">Replace the channel values in the first image using each corresponding channel in the second image as a <b>c</b>olor <b>l</b>ook<b>u</b>p <b>t</b>able.</p>
1092
1093<p>The second (LUT) image is ordinarily a gradient image containing the
1094histogram mapping of how each channel should be modified. Typically it is a
1095either a single row or column image of replacement color values. If larger
1096than a single row or column, values are taken from a diagonal line from
1097top-left to bottom-right corners.</p>
1098
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001099<p>The lookup is further controlled by the <a href="command-line-options.html#interpolate">-interpolate</a> setting, which is especially handy for an
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001100LUT which is not the full length needed by the ImageMagick installed Quality
1101(Q) level. Good settings for this are the '<code>bilinear</code>' and
1102'<code>bicubic</code>' interpolation settings, which give smooth color
1103gradients, and the '<code>integer</code>' setting for a direct, unsmoothed
1104lookup of color values. </p>
1105
1106<p>This operator is especially suited to replacing a grayscale image with a
1107specific color gradient from the CLUT image. </p>
1108
1109<p>Only the channel values defined by the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001110setting will have their values replaced. In particular, since the default <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting is <code>RGB</code>, this means that
1111transparency (alpha/matte channel) is not affected, unless the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting is modified. When the alpha channel is
1112set, it is treated by the <a href="command-line-options.html#clut">-clut</a> operator in the same way
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001113as the other channels, implying that alpha/matte values are replaced using the
1114alpha/matte values of the original image. </p>
1115
1116<p>If either the image being modified, or the lookup image, contains no
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001117transparency (i.e. <a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a> is turned 'off') but the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting includes alpha replacement, then it is
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001118assumed that image represents a gray-scale gradient which is used for the
1119replacement alpha values. That is you can use a gray-scale CLUT image to
1120adjust a existing images alpha channel, or you can color a gray-scale image
1121using colors form CLUT containing the desired colors, including transparency.
1122</p>
1123
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001124<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#hald-clut">-hald-clut</a> which replaces colors
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001125according to the lookup of the full color RGB value from a 2D representation
1126of a 3D color cube. </p>
1127
1128
1129<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001130 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="coalesce"></a>-coalesce</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001131</div>
1132
1133<p class="magick-description">Fully define the look of each frame of an GIF animation sequence, to form a 'film strip' animation.</p>
1134
1135<p>Overlay each image in an image sequence according to
1136its <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">-dispose</a> meta-data, to reproduce the look of
1137an animation at each point in the animation sequence. All images should be
1138the same size, and are assigned appropriate GIF disposal settings for the
1139animation to continue working as expected as a GIF animation. Such frames
1140are more easily viewed and processed than the highly optimized GIF overlay
1141images. </p>
1142
1143<p>The animation can be re-optimized after processing using
1144the <a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a> method '<code>optimize</code>', although
1145there is no guarantee that the restored GIF animation optimization is
1146better than the original. </p>
1147
1148
1149<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001150 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="colorize"></a>-colorize <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001151</div>
1152
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001153<p class="magick-description">Colorize the image by an amount specified by <var>value</var> using the color specified by the most recent <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> setting.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001154
1155<p>Specify the amount of colorization as a percentage. Separate colorization
1156values can be applied to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with
1157a comma-delimited list of colorization
1158values (e.g., <code>-colorize 0,0,50</code>).</p>
1159
1160<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001161 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="colormap"></a>-colormap <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001162</div>
1163
1164<p class="magick-description">Define the colormap type.</p>
1165
1166<p>The <var>type</var> can be <code>shared</code> or <code>private</code>.</p>
1167
1168<p>This option only applies when the default X server visual
1169is <code>PseudoColor</code> or <code>GrayScale</code>. Refer
1170to <a href="command-line-options.html#visual">-visual</a> for more details. By default,
1171a shared colormap is allocated. The image shares colors with
1172other X clients. Some image colors could be approximated,
1173therefore your image may look very different than intended.
1174If <code>private</code> is chosen, the image colors appear exactly
1175as they are defined. However, other clients may go <var>technicolor</var>
1176when the image colormap is installed.</p>
1177
1178<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001179 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="colors"></a>-colors <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001180</div>
1181
1182<p class="magick-description">Set the preferred number of colors in the image.</p>
1183
1184<p>The actual number of colors in the image may be less than your request,
1185but never more. Note that this a color reduction option. Images with fewer
1186unique colors than specified by <var>value</var> will have any
1187duplicate or unused colors removed. The ordering of an existing color
1188palette may be altered. When converting an image from color to grayscale,
1189it is more efficient to convert the image to the gray colorspace before
1190reducing the number of colors. Refer to
1191the <a href="quantize.html">
1192color reduction algorithm</a> for more details.</p>
1193
1194<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001195 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="color-matrix"></a>-color-matrix <var>matrix</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001196</div>
1197
1198<p class="magick-description">apply color correction to the image.</p>
1199
1200<p>This option permits saturation changes, hue rotation, luminance to alpha,
1201and various other effects. Although variable-sized transformation matrices
1202can be used, typically one uses a 5x5 matrix for an RGBA image and a 6x6
1203for CMYKA (or RGBA with offsets). The matrix is similar to those used by
1204Adobe Flash except offsets are in column 6 rather than 5 (in support of
1205CMYKA images) and offsets are normalized (divide Flash offset by 255).</p>
1206
1207<p>As an example, to add contrast to an image with offsets, try this command:</p>
1208
1209<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001210convert kittens.jpg -color-matrix \
1211 " 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1212 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1213 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1214 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 \
1215 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 \
1216 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0, 0.0, 1.0" kittens.png
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001217</pre>
1218<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001219 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="colorspace"></a>-colorspace <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001220</div>
1221
1222<p class="magick-description">Set the image colorspace.</p>
1223
1224<p>Choices are:</p>
1225
1226<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001227CMY CMYK Gray HCL
1228HCLp HSB HSI HSL
1229HSV HWB Lab LCHab
1230LCHuv LMS Log Luv
1231OHTA Rec601YCbCr Rec709YCbCr RGB
1232scRGB sRGB Transparent xyY
1233XYZ YCbCr YCC YDbDr
1234YIQ YPbPr YUV
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001235</pre>
1236
1237<p>To print a complete list of colorspaces, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list colorspace</a>.</p>
1238
1239<p>For a more accurate color conversion to or from the linear RGB, CMYK, or grayscale colorspaces, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> option. Note, ImageMagick assumes the sRGB colorspace if the image format does not indicate otherwise. For colorspace conversion, the gamma function is first removed to produce linear RGB.</p>
1240
1241<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
1242 <caption>Conversion of RGB to Other Color Spaces</caption>
1243 <tr><th valign="middle">CMY</th></tr>
1244 <tr><td valign="middle">C=<var>QuantumRange</var>−R</td></tr>
1245 <tr><td valign="middle">M=<var>QuantumRange</var>−G</td></tr>
1246 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=<var>QuantumRange</var>−B</td></tr>
1247 <tr><th valign="middle">CMYK — starts with CMY from above</th></tr>
1248 <tr><td valign="middle">K=min(C,Y,M)</td></tr>
1249 <tr><td valign="middle">C=<var>QuantumRange</var>*(C−K)/(<var>QuantumRange</var>−K)</td></tr>
1250 <tr><td valign="middle">M=<var>QuantumRange</var>*(M−K)/(<var>QuantumRange</var>−K)</td></tr>
1251 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=<var>QuantumRange</var>*(Y−K)/(<var>QuantumRange</var>−K)</td></tr>
1252
1253 <tr><th valign="middle">Gray</th></tr>
1254 <tr><td valign="middle">Gray = 0.298839*R+0.586811*G+0.114350*B</td></tr>
1255
1256 <tr><th valign="middle">HSB — Hue, Saturation, Brightness; like a cone peak downward</th></tr>
1257 <tr><td valign="middle">H=angle around perimeter (0 to 360 deg); H=0 is red; increasing angles toward green</td></tr>
1258 <tr><td valign="middle">S=distance from axis outward</td></tr>
1259 <tr><td valign="middle">B=distance along axis from bottom upward; B=max(R,G,B); <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1260
1261 <tr><th valign="middle">HSL — Hue, Saturation, Lightness; like a double cone end-to-end with peaks at very top and bottom</th></tr>
1262 <tr><td valign="middle">H=angle around perimeter (0 to 360 deg); H=0 is red; increasing angles toward green</td></tr>
1263 <tr><td valign="middle">S=distance from axis outward</td></tr>
1264 <tr><td valign="middle">L=distance along axis from bottom upward; L=0.5*max(R,G,B) + 0.5*min(R,G,B); <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1265
1266 <tr><th valign="middle">HWB — Hue, Whiteness, Blackness</th></tr>
1267 <tr><td valign="middle">Hue (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1268 <tr><td valign="middle">Whiteness (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1269 <tr><td valign="middle">Blackness (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1270
1271 <tr><th valign="middle">LAB</th></tr>
1272 <tr><td valign="middle">L (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1273 <tr><td valign="middle">A (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1274 <tr><td valign="middle">B (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1275
1276 <tr><th valign="middle">LOG</th></tr>
1277 <tr><td valign="middle">I1 (complicated equation involving logarithm of R)</td></tr>
1278 <tr><td valign="middle">I2 (complicated equation involving logarithm of G)</td></tr>
1279 <tr><td valign="middle">I3 (complicated equation involving logarithm of B)</td></tr>
1280
1281 <tr><th valign="middle">OHTA — approximates principal components transformation</th></tr>
1282 <tr><td valign="middle">I1=0.33333*R+0.33334*G+0.33333*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1283 <tr><td valign="middle">I2=(0.50000*R+0.00000*G−0.50000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1284 <tr><td valign="middle">I3=(−0.25000*R+0.50000*G−0.25000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1285
1286 <tr><th valign="middle">Rec601Luma</th></tr>
1287 <tr><td valign="middle">Gray = 0.298839*R+0.586811*G+0.114350*B</td></tr>
1288
1289 <tr><th valign="middle">Rec601YCbCr</th></tr>
1290 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.2988390*R+0.5868110*G+0.1143500*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1291 <tr><td valign="middle">Cb=(−0.168736*R-0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1292 <tr><td valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1293
1294 <tr><th valign="middle">Rec709Luma</th></tr>
1295 <tr><td valign="middle">Gray=0.212656*R+0.715158*G+0.072186*B</td></tr>
1296
1297 <tr><th valign="middle">Rec709YCbCr</th></tr>
1298 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.212656*R+0.715158*G+0.072186*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1299 <tr><td valign="middle">Cb=(−0.114572*R−0.385428*G+0.500000*B)+(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1300 <tr><td valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.454153*G−0.045847*B)+(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1301
1302 <tr><th valign="middle">sRGB</th></tr>
1303 <tr><td valign="middle">if R ≤ .0.0031308 then Rs=R/12.92 else Rs=1.055 R ^ (1.0 / 2.4) ? 0.055</td></tr>
1304 <tr><td valign="middle">if G ≤ .0.0031308 then Gs=B/12.92 else Gs=1.055 R ^ (1.0 / 2.4) ? 0.055</td></tr>
1305 <tr><td valign="middle">if B ≤ .0.0031308 then Bs=B/12.92 else Bs=1.055 R ^ (1.0 / 2.4) ? 0.055</td></tr>
1306
1307 <tr><th valign="middle">XYZ</th></tr>
1308 <tr><td valign="middle">X=0.4124564*R+0.3575761*G+0.1804375*B</td></tr>
1309 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.2126729*R+0.7151522*G+0.0721750*B</td></tr>
1310 <tr><td valign="middle">Z=0.0193339*R+0.1191920*G+0.9503041*B</td></tr>
1311
1312 <tr><th valign="middle">YCC</th></tr>
1313 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=(0.298839*R+0.586811*G+0.114350*B) (with complicated scaling); <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1314 <tr><td valign="middle">C1=(−0.298839*R−0.586811*G+0.88600*B) (with complicated scaling)</td></tr>
1315 <tr><td valign="middle">C2=(0.70100*R−0.586811*G−0.114350*B) (with complicated scaling)</td></tr>
1316
1317 <tr><th valign="middle">YCbCr</th></tr>
1318 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.2988390*R+0.5868110*G+0.1143500*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1319 <tr><td valign="middle">Cb=(−0.168736*R−0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1320 <tr><td valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1321
1322 <tr><th valign="middle">YIQ</th></tr>
1323 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.298839*R+0.586811*G+0.114350*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1324 <tr><td valign="middle">I=(0.59600*R−0.27400*G−0.32200*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1325 <tr><td valign="middle">Q=(0.21100*R−0.52300*G+0.31200*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1326
1327 <tr><th valign="middle">YPbPr</th></tr>
1328 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.2988390*R+0.5868110*G+0.1143500*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1329 <tr><td valign="middle">Pb=(−0.168736*R−0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1330 <tr><td valign="middle">Pr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1331
1332 <tr><th valign="middle">YUV</th></tr>
1333 <tr><td valign="middle">Y=0.298839*R+0.586811*G+0.114350*B; <var>intensity-like</var></td></tr>
1334 <tr><td valign="middle">U=(−0.14740*R−0.28950*G+0.43690*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1335 <tr><td valign="middle">V=(0.61500*R−0.51500*G−0.10000*B)*(<var>QuantumRange</var>+1)/2</td></tr>
1336</table>
1337
1338<p>Note the scRGB colorspace requires HDRI support otherwise it behaves just like linear RGB.</p>
1339
1340<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001341 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="combine"></a>-combine</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001342</div>
1343
1344<p class="magick-description">Combine one or more images into a single image.</p>
1345
1346<p>The channels (previously set by <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>) of the
1347combined image are taken from the grayscale values of each image in the
1348sequence, in order. For the default -channel setting of <code>RGB</code>, this
1349means the first image is assigned to the <code>Red</code> channel, the second
1350to the <code>Green</code> channel, the third to the <code>Blue</code>.</p>
1351
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001352<p>This option can be thought of as the inverse to <a href="command-line-options.html#separate">-separate</a>, so long as the channel settings are the same.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001353Thus, in the following example, the final image should be a copy of the
1354original. </p>
1355
1356<pre>
1357convert original.png -channel RGB -separate sepimage.png
1358convert sepimage-0.png sepimage-1.png sepimage-2.png -channel RGB \
1359 -combine imagecopy.png
1360</pre>
1361
1362<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001363 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="comment"></a>-comment <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001364</div>
1365
1366<p class="magick-description">Embed a comment in an image.</p>
1367
1368<p>This option sets the comment meta-data of an image read in after this
1369option has been given. To modify a comment of images already in memory use
1370"<code><a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> comment</code>". </p>
1371
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001372<p>The comment can contain special format characters listed in the <a href="escape.html">Format and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001373Print Image Properties</a>. These attributes are expanded when the comment
1374is finally assigned to the individual images. </p>
1375
1376<p>If the first character of <var>string</var> is <var>@</var>, the image comment is read from a file titled by the
1377remaining characters in the string. Comments read in from a file are literal;
1378no embedded formatting characters are recognized.</p>
1379
1380<p>Comment meta-data are not visible on the image itself. To do that use the
1381<a href="command-line-options.html#annotate">-annotate</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> options
1382instead.</p>
1383
1384<p>For example,</p>
1385
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001386<pre>
1387-comment "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
1388</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001389
1390<p>produces an image comment of <code>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</code> (assuming
1391that the image <code>bird.miff</code> has a width of 512 and a height of
1392480.</p>
1393
1394<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001395 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="compare"></a>-compare</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001396</div>
1397
1398<p class="magick-description">mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an image and its reconstruction</p>
1399
1400<p>This is a convert version of "<code>compare</code>" for two same sized images. The syntax is as follows, but other metrics are allowed.</p>
1401
1402<pre>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001403convert image.png reference.png -metric RMSE -compare \ <br> difference.png
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001404</pre>
1405
1406<p>To get the metric value use the string format "%[distortion]".</p>
1407
1408<pre>
1409convert image.png reference.png -metric RMSE -compare -format \
1410 "%[distortion]" info:
1411</pre>
1412
1413<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001414 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="complex"></a>-complex <var>operator</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001415</div>
1416
1417<p class="magick-description">perform complex mathematics on an image sequence</p>
1418
1419Choose from these operators:
1420
1421<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001422add
1423conjugate
1424divide
1425magnuitude-phase
1426multiply
1427real-imaginary
1428subtract
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001429</pre>
1430
1431<p>Optionally specify the <code>divide</code> operator SNR with <code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> complex:snr=float</code>.</p>
1432
1433<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001434 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="compose"></a>-compose <var>operator</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001435</div>
1436
1437<p class="magick-description">Set the type of image composition.</p>
1438
1439<p>See <a href="compose.html">Alpha Compositing</a> for
1440a detailed discussion of alpha compositing.</p>
1441
1442<p>This setting effects image processing operators that merge two (or more)
1443images together in some way. This includes the operators,
1444<a href="command-line-options.html#composite">-compare</a>,
1445<a href="command-line-options.html#composite">-composite</a>,
1446<a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a> composite,
1447<a href="command-line-options.html#flatten">-flatten</a>,
1448<a href="command-line-options.html#mosaic">-mosaic</a>,
1449<a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a> merge,
1450<a href="command-line-options.html#border">-border</a>,
1451<a href="command-line-options.html#frame">-frame</a>,
1452and <a href="command-line-options.html#extent">-extent</a>. </p>
1453
1454<p>It is also one of the primary options for the "<code>composite</code>"
1455command. </p>
1456
1457
1458<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001459 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="composite"></a>-composite</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001460</div>
1461
1462<p class="magick-description">Perform alpha composition on two images and an optional mask</p>
1463
1464<p>Take the first image 'destination' and overlay the second 'source' image
1465according to the current <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> setting. The location
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001466of the 'source' or 'overlay' image is controlled according to <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001467settings. </p>
1468
1469<p>If a third image is given this is treated as a gray-scale blending 'mask' image
1470relative to the first 'destination' image. This mask is blended with the
1471source image. However for the '<code>displace</code>' compose method, the
1472mask is used to provide a separate Y-displacement image instead. </p>
1473
1474<p>If a <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> method requires extra numerical
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001475arguments or flags these can be provided by setting the <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> '<code>option:compose:args</code>'
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001476appropriately for the compose method. </p>
1477
1478<p>Some <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> methods can modify the 'destination'
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001479image outside the overlay area. You can disable this by setting the special <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> '<code>option:compose:outside-overlay</code>'
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001480to '<code>false</code>'. </p>
1481
1482<p>The SVG compositing specification requires that color and opacity values range between zero and QuantumRange inclusive. You can permit values outside this range with this option: <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> '<code>option:compose:clamp=false</code></p>
1483
1484
1485<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001486 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="compress"></a>-compress <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001487</div>
1488
1489<p class="magick-description">Use pixel compression specified by <var>type</var> when writing the image.</p>
1490
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001491<p>Choices are: <code>None</code>, <code>BZip</code>, <code>Fax</code>, <code>Group4</code>, <code>JPEG</code>, <code>JPEG2000</code>, <code>Lossless</code>, <code>LZW</code>, <code>RLE</code> or <code>Zip</code>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001492
1493<p>To print a complete list of compression types, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
1494compress</a>.</p>
1495
1496<p>Specify <a href="command-line-options.html#compress">+compress</a> to store the binary image in an
1497uncompressed format. The default is the compression type of the specified
1498image file.</p>
1499
1500<p>If <code>LZW</code> compression is specified but LZW compression has not been
1501enabled, the image data is written in an uncompressed LZW format that can be
1502read by LZW decoders. This may result in larger-than-expected GIF files.</p>
1503
1504<p><code>Lossless</code> refers to lossless JPEG, which is only available if the
1505JPEG library has been patched to support it. Use of lossless JPEG is generally
1506not recommended.</p>
1507
1508<p>
1509When writing an ICO file, you may request that the images be encoded in
1510PNG format, by specifying <code>Zip</code> compression.</p>
1511
1512<p>
1513When writing a JNG file, specify <code>Zip</code> compression to request that
1514the alpha channel be encoded in PNG "IDAT" format, or <code>JPEG</code>
1515to request that it be encoded in JPG "JDAA" format.</p>
1516
1517<p>Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#quality">-quality</a> option to set the compression level
1518to be used by JPEG, PNG, MIFF, and MPEG encoders.
1519Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> option to set the
1520sampling factor to be used by JPEG, MPEG, and YUV encoders for down-sampling
1521the chroma channels.</p>
1522
1523<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001524 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="connected-components"></a>-connected-components <var>connectivity</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001525</div>
1526
1527<p class="magick-description">connected-components uniquely labeled, choose from 4 or 8 way connectivity.</p>
1528
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001529<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> connected-components:verbose=true</code> to output statistics associated with each unique label.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001530
1531<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001532 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="contrast"></a>-contrast</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001533</div>
1534
1535<p class="magick-description">Enhance or reduce the image contrast.</p>
1536
1537<p>This option enhances the intensity differences between the lighter and
1538darker elements of the image. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast">-contrast</a> to enhance
1539the image or <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast">+contrast</a> to reduce the image
1540contrast.</p>
1541
1542<p>For a more pronounced effect you can repeat the option:</p>
1543
1544<pre>
1545convert rose: -contrast -contrast rose_c2.png
1546</pre>
1547
1548<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001549 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="contrast-stretch"></a>-contrast-stretch <var>black-point</var><br>-contrast-stretch <var>black-point</var>{x<var>white-point</var>}{<var>%</var>}}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001550</div>
1551
1552<p class="magick-description">Increase the contrast in an image by <var>stretching</var> the range of intensity values.</p>
1553
1554<p>While performing the stretch, black-out at most <var>black-point</var> pixels and white-out at most <var>white-point</var> pixels. Or, if percent is used, black-out at most
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001555<var>black-point %</var> pixels and white-out at most <var>white-point %</var> pixels.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001556
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001557<p>Prior to ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a> will black-out at most <var>black-point</var> pixels and white-out at most <var>total pixels
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001558minus white-point</var> pixels. Or, if percent is used, black-out at most <var>black-point %</var> pixels and white-out at most <var>100% minus white-point %</var> pixels.</p>
1559
1560<p>Note that <code>-contrast-stretch 0</code> will modify the image such that
1561the image's min and max values are stretched to 0 and <var>QuantumRange</var>, respectively, without any loss of data due to burn-out or
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001562clipping at either end. This is not the same as <a href="command-line-options.html#normalize">-normalize</a>, which is equivalent to <code>-contrast-stretch 0.15x0.05%</code> (or
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001563prior to ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <code>-contrast-stretch 2%x99%</code>).</p>
1564
1565<p>Internally operator works by creating a histogram bin, and then uses that
1566bin to modify the image. As such some colors may be merged together when they
1567originally fell into the same 'bin'. </p>
1568
1569<p>All the channels are normalized in concert by the came amount so as to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001570preserve color integrity, when the default <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">+channel</a>
1571setting is in use. Specifying any other <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001572setting will normalize the RGB channels independently.</p>
1573
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001574<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect'
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001575normalization of mathematical images. </p>
1576
1577<p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
1578
1579
1580<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001581 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="convolve"></a>-convolve <var>kernel</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001582</div>
1583
1584<p class="magick-description">Convolve an image with a user-supplied convolution kernel.</p>
1585
1586<p>The <var>kernel</var> is a matrix specified as
1587a comma-separated list of integers (with no spaces), ordered left-to right,
1588starting with the top row. Presently, only odd-dimensioned kernels are
1589supported, and therefore the number of entries in the specified <var>kernel</var> must be 3<sup>2</sup>=9, 5<sup>2</sup>=25,
15907<sup>2</sup>=49, etc. </p>
1591
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001592<p>Note that the <a href="command-line-options.html#convolve">‑convolve</a> operator supports the <a href="command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> setting. This option shifts the convolution so that
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001593positive and negative results are relative to a user-specified bias value.
1594This is important for non-HDRI compilations of ImageMagick when dealing with
1595convolutions that contain negative as well as positive values. This is
1596especially the case with convolutions involving high pass filters or edge
1597detection. Without an output bias, the negative values is clipped at zero.
1598</p>
1599
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001600<p>When using an ImageMagick with the HDRI compile-time setting, <a href="command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> is not needed, as ImageMagick is able to store/handle any
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001601negative results without clipping to the color value range (0..QuantumRange).
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001602See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page <a href="high-dynamic-range.html">High
1603Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages or this
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001604<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a>
1605entry. </p>
1606
1607
1608<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001609 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="crop"></a>-crop <var>geometry</var>{<var>@</var>}{<var>!</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001610</div>
1611
1612<p class="magick-description">Cut out one or more rectangular regions of the image.</p>
1613
1614<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
1615
1616<p>The <var>width</var> and <var>height</var> of the <var>geometry</var> argument give the size of the image that remains
1617after cropping, and <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> in the
1618<var>offset</var> (if present) gives the location of the top left
1619corner of the cropped image with respect to the original image. To specify the
1620amount to be removed, use <a href="command-line-options.html#shave">-shave</a> instead.</p>
1621
1622<p>If the <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> offsets are
1623present, a single image is generated, consisting of the pixels from the
1624cropping region. The offsets specify the location of the upper left corner of
1625the cropping region measured downward and rightward with respect to the upper
1626left corner of the image. If the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option is
1627present with <code>NorthEast</code>, <code>East</code>, or <code>SouthEast</code>
1628gravity, it gives the distance leftward from the right edge of the image to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001629the right edge of the cropping region. Similarly, if the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option is present with <code>SouthWest</code>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001630<code>South</code>, or <code>SouthEast</code> gravity, the distance is measured
1631upward between the bottom edges.</p>
1632
1633<p>If the <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> offsets are
1634omitted, a set of tiles of the specified geometry, covering the entire input
1635image, is generated. The rightmost tiles and the bottom tiles are smaller if
1636the specified geometry extends beyond the dimensions of the input image.</p>
1637
1638<p>You can add the <var>@</var> to the geometry argument to equally divide the image into the number of tiles generated.</p>
1639
1640<p>By adding a exclamation character flag to the geometry argument, the
1641cropped images virtual canvas page size and offset is set as if the
1642geometry argument was a viewport or window. This means the canvas page size
1643is set to exactly the same size you specified, the image offset set
1644relative top left corner of the region cropped. </p>
1645
1646<p>If the cropped image 'missed' the actual image on its virtual canvas, a
1647special single pixel transparent 'missed' image is returned, and a 'crop
1648missed' warning given. </p>
1649
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001650<p>It might be necessary to <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a> the image prior to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001651cropping the image to ensure the crop coordinate frame is relocated to the
1652upper-left corner of the visible image.
1653
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001654Similarly you may want to use <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a> after cropping to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001655remove the page offset that will be left behind. This is especially true when
1656you are going to write to an image format such as PNG that supports an image
1657offset.</p>
1658
1659<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001660 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="cycle"></a>-cycle <var>amount</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001661</div>
1662
1663<p class="magick-description">displace image colormap by amount.</p>
1664
1665<p><var>Amount</var> defines the number of positions each
1666colormap entry is shifted.</p>
1667
1668
1669<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001670 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="debug"></a>-debug <var>events</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001671</div>
1672
1673<p class="magick-description">enable debug printout.</p>
1674
1675<p>The <code>events</code> parameter specifies which events are to be logged. It
1676can be either <code>None</code>, <code>All</code>, <code>Trace</code>, or
1677a comma-separated list consisting of one or more of the following domains:
1678<code>Accelerate</code>, <code>Annotate</code>, <code>Blob</code>, <code>Cache</code>,
1679<code>Coder</code>, <code>Configure</code>, <code>Deprecate</code>,
1680<code>Exception</code>, <code>Locale</code>, <code>Render</code>,
1681<code>Resource</code>, <code>Security</code>, <code>TemporaryFile</code>,
1682<code>Transform</code>, <code>X11</code>, or <code>User</code>. </p>
1683
1684
1685<p>For example, to log cache and blob events, use.</p>
1686
1687<pre>
1688convert -debug "Cache,Blob" rose: rose.png
1689</pre>
1690
1691<p>The <code>User</code> domain is normally empty, but developers can log user
1692events in their private copy of ImageMagick.</p>
1693
1694<p>To print the complete list of debug methods, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
1695debug</a>.</p>
1696
1697<p>Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#log">-log</a> option to specify the format for debugging
1698output.</p>
1699
1700<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#debug">+debug</a> to turn off all logging.</p>
1701
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001702<p>Debugging may also be set using the <code>MAGICK_DEBUG</code> <a href="resources.html#environment">environment variable</a>. The allowed values for the <code>MAGICK_DEBUG</code>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001703environment variable are the same as for the <a href="command-line-options.html#debug">-debug</a>
1704option.</p>
1705
1706
1707<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001708 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="decipher"></a>-decipher <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001709</div>
1710
1711<p class="magick-description">Decipher and restore pixels that were previously transformed by <a href="command-line-options.html#encipher">-encipher</a>.</p>
1712
1713<p>Get the passphrase from the file specified by <var>filename</var>.</p>
1714
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001715<p>For more information, see the webpage, <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/cipher.html">ImageMagick: Encipher or
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001716Decipher an Image</a>.</p>
1717
1718
1719<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001720 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="deconstruct"></a>-deconstruct</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001721</div>
1722
1723<p class="magick-description">find areas that has changed between images </p>
1724
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001725<p>Given a sequence of images all the same size, such as produced by <a href="command-line-options.html#coalesce">-coalesce</a>, replace the second and later images, with
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001726a smaller image of just the area that changed relative to the previous image.
1727</p>
1728
1729<p>The resulting sequence of images can be used to optimize an animation
1730sequence, though will not work correctly for GIF animations when parts of the
1731animation can go from opaque to transparent. </p>
1732
1733<p>This option is actually equivalent to the <a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a>
1734method '<code>compare-any</code>'. </p>
1735
1736
1737<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001738 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="define"></a>-define <var>key</var>{<var>=value</var>}<var>...</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001739</div>
1740
1741<p class="magick-description">add specific global settings generally used to control coders and image processing operations.</p>
1742
1743<p>This option creates one or more definitions for coders and decoders to use
1744while reading and writing image data. Definitions are generally used to
1745control image file format coder modules, and image processing operations,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001746beyond what is provided by normal means. Defined settings are listed in <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> information ("<code>info:</code>" output format)
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001747as "Artifacts". </p>
1748
1749<p>If <var>value</var> is missing for a definition, an empty-valued
1750definition of a flag is created with that name. This used to control on/off
1751options. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">+define key</a> to remove definitions
1752previously created. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">+define "*"</a> to remove all
1753existing definitions.</p>
1754
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001755<p>The same 'artifact' settings can also be defined using the <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set "option:<var>key</var>" "<var>value</var>"</a> option, which also allows the use of <a href="escape.html">Format and Print Image
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001756Properties</a> in the defined value. </p>
1757
1758<p>The <var>option</var> and <var>key</var> are case-independent (they are
1759converted to lowercase for use within the decoders) while the <var>value</var>
1760is case-dependent.</p>
1761
1762<p>Such settings are global in scope, and affect all images and operations. </p>
1763
1764<p>The following definitions are just some of the artifacts that are
1765available:</p>
1766
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001767<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
1768 <tr>
1769 <td>bmp:format=<var>value</var></td>
1770 <td> valid values are <var>bmp2</var>, <var>bmp3</var>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001771 and <var>bmp4</var>. This option can be useful when the
1772 method of prepending "BMP2:" to the output filename is inconvenient or
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001773 is not available, such as when using the <a href="mogrify.html">mogrify</a> utility.</td>
1774 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001775
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001776 <tr>
1777 <td>complex:snr=<var>value</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001778 <td>Set the divide SNR constant<a href="command-line-options.html#complex">-complex</a></td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001779 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001780
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001781 <tr>
1782 <td>compose:args=<var>arguments</var></td>
1783 <td>Sets certain compose argument values when using convert ... -compose ...
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001784 -composite. See <a href="compose.html">Image Composition</a></td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001785 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001786
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001787 <tr>
1788 <td>convolve:scale=<var>{kernel_scale}[!^] [,{origin_addition}] [%]</var></td>
1789 <td>Defines the kernel scaling. The special flag ! automatically scales to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001790 full dynamic range. The ! flag can be used in combination with a factor or
1791 percent. The factor or percent is then applied after the automatic scaling.
1792 An example is 50%!. This produces a result 50% darker than full dynamic
1793 range scaling. The ^ flag assures the kernel is 'zero-summing', for
1794 example when some values are positive and some are negative as in edge
1795 detection kernels. The origin addition adds that value to the center
1796 pixel of the kernel. This produces and effect that is like adding the image
1797 that many times to the result of the filtered image. The typical value
1798 is 1 so that the original image is added to the result of the convolution.
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001799 The default is 0.</td>
1800 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001801
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001802 <tr>
1803 <td>convolve:showkernel=<var>1</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001804 <td>Outputs (to 'standard error') all the information about a specified <a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology convolve</a> kernel.</td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001805 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001806
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001807 <tr>
1808 <td>dcm:display-range=<var>reset</var></td>
1809 <td>Sets the display range to the minimum and maximum pixel values for the
1810 DCM image format.</td>
1811 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001812
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001813 <tr>
1814 <td>dds:cluster-fit=<var>true|false</var></td>
1815 <td>Enables the dds cluster-fit.</td>
1816 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001817
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001818 <tr>
1819 <td>dds:compression=<var>dxt1|dxt5|none</var></td>
1820 <td>Sets the dds compression.</td>
1821 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001822
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001823 <tr>
1824 <td>dds:mipmaps=<var>value</var></td>
1825 <td>Sets the dds number of mipmaps.</td>
1826 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001827
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001828 <tr>
1829 <td>dds:weight-by-alpha=<var>true|false</var></td>
1830 <td>Enables the dds alpha weighting.</td>
1831 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001832
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001833 <tr>
1834 <td>delegate:bimodal=<var>true</var></td>
1835 <td>Specifies direct conversion from Postscript to PDF.</td>
1836 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001837
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001838 <tr>
1839 <td>distort:scale=<var>value</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001840 <td>Sets the output scaling factor for use with <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a></td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001841 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001842
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001843 <tr>
1844 <td>distort:viewport=<var>WxH+X+Y</var></td>
1845 <td>Sets the viewport for use with <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a></td>
1846 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001847
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001848 <tr>
1849 <td>dot:layout-engine=<var>value</var></td>
1850 <td>Specifies the layout engine for the DOT image format (e.g.
1851 <code>neato</code>).</td>
1852 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001853
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001854 <tr>
1855 <td>filter:option=<var>value</var></td>
1856 <td>Set a filter option for use with <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a>.
1857 See <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> for details.</td>
1858 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001859
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001860 <tr>
1861 <td>fourier:normalize=<var>inverse</var></td>
1862 <td>Sets the location for the FFT/IFT normalization as use by
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001863 <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">+-fft</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#ift">+-ift</a>. The default is
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001864 forward.</td>
1865 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001866
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001867 <tr>
1868 <td>icon:auto-resize</td>
1869 <td>Automatically stores multiple sizes when writing an ico image
1870 (requires a 256x256 input image).</td>
1871 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001872
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001873 <tr>
1874 <td>jp2:layer-number=<var>value</var></td>
1875 <td>Sets the maximum number of quality layers to decode. Same for JPT, JC2,
1876 and J2K</td>
1877 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001878
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001879 <tr>
1880 <td>jp2:number-resolutions=<var>value</var></td>
1881 <td>Sets the number of resolutions to encode.Same for JPT, JC2, and J2K</td>
1882 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001883
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001884 <tr>
1885 <td>jp2:progression-order=<var>value</var></td>
1886 <td>choose from LRCP, RLCP, RPCL, PCRL or CPRL. Same for JPT, JC2, and
1887 J2K</td>
1888 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001889
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001890 <tr>
1891 <td>jp2:quality=<var>value,value...</var></td>
1892 <td>Sets the quality layer PSNR, given in dB. The order is from left to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001893 right in ascending order. The default is a single lossless quality layer.
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001894 Same for JPT, JC2, and J2K</td>
1895 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001896
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001897 <tr>
1898 <td>jp2:rate=<var>value</var></td>
1899 <td>Specify the compression factor to use while writing JPEG-2000 files. The
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001900 compression factor is the reciprocal of the compression ratio. The valid
1901 range is 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 indicating lossless compression. If defined,
1902 this value overrides the -quality setting. A quality setting of 75
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001903 results in a rate value of 0.06641. Same for JPT, JC2, and J2K</td>
1904 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001905
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001906 <tr>
1907 <td>jp2:reduce-factor=<var>value</var></td>
1908 <td>Sets the number of highest resolution levels to be discarded.Same for
1909 JPT, JC2, and J2K</td>
1910 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001911
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001912 <tr>
1913 <td>jpeg:block-smoothing=<var>on|off</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001914
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001915 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001916 <td>jpeg:colors=<var>value</var></td>
1917 <td>Set the desired number of colors and let the JPEG encoder do the
1918 quantizing.</td>
1919 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001920
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001921 <tr>
1922 <td>jpeg:dct-method=<var>value</var></td>
1923 <td>Choose from <code>default</code>, <code>fastest</code>,
1924 <code>float</code>, <code>ifast</code>, and <code>islow</code>.</td>
1925 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001926
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001927 <tr>
1928 <td>jpeg:extent=<var>value</var></td>
1929 <td>Restrict the maximum JPEG file size, for example <code>-define
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001930 jpeg:extent=400KB</code>. The JPEG encoder will search for the highest
1931 compression quality level that results in an output file that does not
1932 exceed the value. The <code>-quality</code> option is ignored if it
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001933 is also present.</td>
1934 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001935
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001936 <tr>
1937 <td>jpeg:fancy-upsampling=<var>on|off</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001938
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001939 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001940 <td>jpeg:optimize-coding=<var>on|off</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001941
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001942 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001943 <td>jpeg:q-table=<var>table</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001944
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001945 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001946 <td>jpeg:sampling-factor=<var>sampling-factor-string</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001947
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001948 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001949 <td>jpeg:size=<var>geometry</var></td>
1950 <td>Set the size hint of a JPEG image, for
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001951 example, <code>-define jpeg:size=128x128</code>.
1952 It is most useful for increasing performance and reducing the memory
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001953 requirements when reducing the size of a large JPEG image.</td>
1954 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001955
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001956 <tr>
1957 <td>json:features</td>
1958 <td>includes features in verbose information</td>
1959 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001960
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001961 <tr>
1962 <td>json:limit</td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001963
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001964 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001965 <td>json:locate</td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001966
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001967 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001968 <td>json:moments</td>
1969 <td>includes image moments in verbose information</td>
1970 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001971
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001972 <tr>
1973 <td>mng:need-cacheoff</td>
1974 <td>turn playback caching off for streaming MNG.</td>
1975 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001976
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001977 <tr>
1978 <td>morphology:compose=<var>compose-method</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001979 <td>Specifies how to merge results generated by multiple<a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a> kernel. The default is none. One
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001980 typical value is 'lighten' as used, for example, with the sobel edge
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001981 kernels. </td>
1982 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001983
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001984 <tr>
1985 <td>morphology:showkernel=<var>1</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001986 <td>Outputs (to 'standard error') all the information about a generated <a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a> kernel.</td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001987 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001988
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001989 <tr>
1990 <td>pcl:fit-to-page=<var>true</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001991
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00001992 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001993 <td>pdf:fit-page=<var>geometry</var></td>
1994 <td> geometry specifies the scaling dimensions for resizing when the PDF is
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001995 being read. The geometry is either WxH{%} or page size. No offsets are
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001996 allowed. (introduced in IM 6.8.8-8)</td>
1997 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00001998
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00001999 <tr>
2000 <td>pdf:fit-to-page=<var>true</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002001
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002002 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002003 <td>pdf:use-cropbox=<var>true</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002004
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002005 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002006 <td>pdf:use-trimbox=<var>true</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002007
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002008 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002009 <td>png:bit-depth=<var>value</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002010 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002011 <td>png:color-type=<var>value</var></td>
2012 <td>desired bit-depth and color-type for PNG output. You can force the PNG
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002013 encoder to use a different bit-depth and color-type than it would have
2014 normally selected, but only if this does not cause any loss of image
2015 quality. Any attempt to reduce image quality is treated as an error and no
2016 PNG file is written. E.g., if you have a 1-bit black-and-white image, you
2017 can use these "defines" to cause it to be written as an 8-bit grayscale,
2018 indexed, or even a 64-bit RGBA. But if you have a 16-million color image,
2019 you cannot force it to be written as a grayscale or indexed PNG. If you
2020 wish to do this, you must use the appropriate <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a>,
2021 <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a>, or <a href="command-line-options.html#type">-type</a> directives to
2022 reduce the image quality prior to using the PNG encoder. Note that in
2023 indexed PNG files, "bit-depth" refers to the number of bits per index,
2024 which can be 1, 2, 4, or 8. In such files, the color samples always have
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002025 8-bit depth.</td>
2026 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002027
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002028 <tr>
2029 <td>png:compression-filter=<var>value</var></td>
2030 <td> valid values are 0 through 9. 0-4 are the corresponding PNG filters,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002031 5 means adaptive filtering except for images with a colormap, 6 means
2032 adaptive filtering for all images, 7 means MNG "loco" compression, 8 means
2033 Z_RLE strategy with adaptive filtering, and 9 means Z_RLE strategy with no
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002034 filtering.</td>
2035 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002036
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002037 <tr>
2038 <td>png:compression-level=<var>value</var></td>
2039 <td> valid values are 0 through 9, with 0 providing the least but fastest
2040 compression and 9 usually providing the best and always the slowest.</td>
2041 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002042
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002043 <tr>
2044 <td>png:compression-strategy=<var>value</var></td>
2045 <td> valid values are 0 through 4, meaning default, filtered, huffman_only,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002046 rle, and fixed ZLIB compression strategy. If you are using an old zlib
2047 that does not support Z_RLE (before 1.2.0) or Z_FIXED (before 1.2.2.2),
2048 values 3 and 4, respectively, will use the zlib default strategy
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002049 instead.</td>
2050 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002051
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002052 <tr>
2053 <td>png:format=<var>value</var></td>
2054 <td> valid values are <var>png8</var>, <var>png24</var>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002055 <var>png32</var>, <var>png48</var>,
2056 <var>png64</var>, and <var>png00</var>.
2057 This property can be useful for specifying
2058 the specific PNG format to be used, when the usual method of prepending the
2059 format name to the output filename is inconvenient, such as when writing
2060 a PNG-encoded ICO file or when using <a href="mogrify.html">mogrify</a>.
2061 Value = <var>png8</var> reduces the number of colors to 256,
2062 only one of which may be fully transparent, if necessary. The other
2063 values do not force any reduction of quality; it is an error to request
2064 a format that cannot represent the image data without loss (except that
2065 it is allowed to reduce the bit-depth from 16 to 8 for all formats).
2066 Value = <var>png24</var> and <var>png48</var>
2067 allow transparency, only if a single color is fully transparent and that
2068 color does not also appear in an opaque pixel; such transparency is
2069 written in a PNG <code>tRNS</code> chunk.
2070 Value = <var>png00</var> causes the image to inherit its
2071 color-type and bit-depth from the input image, if the input was also
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002072 a PNG.</td>
2073 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002074
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002075 <tr>
2076 <td>png:exclude-chunk=<var>value</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002077
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002078 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002079 <td>png:include-chunk=<var>value</var></td>
2080 <td>ancillary chunks to be excluded from or included in PNG output.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002081
2082 <p>The <var>value</var> can be the name of a PNG chunk-type such
2083 as <var>bKGD</var>, a comma-separated list of chunk-names
2084 (which can include the word <var>date</var>, the word
2085 <var>all</var>, or the word <var>none</var>).
2086 Although PNG chunk-names are case-dependent, you can use all lowercase
2087 names if you prefer.</p>
2088
2089 <p>The "include-chunk" and "exclude-chunk" lists only affect the behavior
2090 of the PNG encoder and have no effect on the PNG decoder.</p>
2091
2092 <p>As a special case, if the <code>sRGB</code> chunk is excluded and
2093 the <code>gAMA</code> chunk is included, the <code>gAMA</code> chunk will
2094 only be written if gamma is not 1/2.2, since most decoders assume
2095 sRGB and gamma=1/2.2 when no colorspace information is included in
2096 the PNG file. Because the list is processed from left to right, you
2097 can achieve this with a single define:</p>
2098
2099<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002100-define png:include-chunk=none,gAMA
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002101</pre>
2102
2103 <p>As a special case, if the <code>sRGB</code> chunk is not excluded and
2104 the PNG encoder recognizes that the image contains the sRGB ICC profile,
2105 the PNG encoder will write the <code>sRGB</code> chunk instead of the
2106 entire ICC profile. To force the PNG encoder to write the sRGB
2107 profile as an <code>iCCP</code> chunk in the output PNG instead of the
2108 <code>sRGB</code> chunk, exclude the <code>sRGB</code> chunk.</p>
2109
2110 <p>The critical PNG chunks <code>IHDR</code>, <code>PLTE</code>,
2111 <code>IDAT</code>, and <code>IEND</code> cannot be excluded. Any such
2112 entries appearing in the list will be ignored.</p>
2113
2114 <p>If the ancillary PNG <code>tRNS</code> chunk is excluded and the
2115 image has transparency, the PNG colortype is forced to be 4 or 6
2116 (GRAY_ALPHA or RGBA). If the image is not transparent, then the
2117 <code>tRNS</code> chunk isn't written anyhow, and there is no effect
2118 on the PNG colortype of the output image.</p>
2119
2120 <p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#strip">-strip</a> option does the equivalent of the
2121 following for PNG output:</p>
2122
2123<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002124-define png:exclude-chunk=EXIF,iCCP,iTXt,sRGB,tEXt,zCCP,zTXt,date
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002125</pre>
2126
2127 <p>The default behavior is to include all known PNG ancillary chunks
2128 plus ImageMagick's private <code>vpAg</code> ("virtual page") chunk,
2129 and to exclude all PNG chunks that are unknown to ImageMagick,
2130 regardless of their PNG "copy-safe" status as described in the
2131 PNG specification.</p>
2132
2133 <p>Any chunk names that are not known to ImageMagick are ignored
2134 if they appear in either the "include-chunk" or "exclude-chunk" list.
2135 The ancillary chunks currently known to ImageMagick are
2136 <code>bKGD</code>, <code>cHRM</code>, <code>gAMA</code>, <code>iCCP</code>,
2137 <code>oFFs</code>, <code>pHYs</code>, <code>sRGB</code>, <code>tEXt</code>,
2138 <code>tRNS</code>, <code>vpAg</code>, and <code>zTXt</code>.</p>
2139
2140 <p>You can also put <code>date</code> in the list to include or exclude
2141 the "Date:create" and "Date:modify" text chunks that ImageMagick normally
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002142 inserts in the output PNG.</p></td>
2143 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002144
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002145 <tr>
2146 <td>png:preserve-colormap[=<var>true</var>]</td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002147 <td>Use the existing image-&gt;colormap. Normally the PNG encoder will
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002148 try to optimize the palette, eliminating unused entries and putting
2149 the transparent colors first. If this flag is set, that behavior
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002150 is suppressed.</td>
2151 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002152
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002153 <tr>
2154 <td>png:preserve-iCCP[=<var>true</var>]</td>
2155 <td>By default, the PNG decoder and encoder examine any ICC profile
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002156 that is present, either from an <code>iCCP</code> chunk in the PNG
2157 input or supplied via an option, and if the profile is recognized
2158 to be the sRGB profile, converts it to the <code>sRGB</code> chunk.
2159 You can use <code>-define png:preserve-iCCP</code> to prevent
2160 this from happening; in such cases the <code>iCCP</code> chunk
2161 will be read or written and no <code>sRGB</code> chunk will be
2162 written. There are some ICC profiles that claim to be sRGB but
2163 have various errors that cause them to be rejected by libpng16; such
2164 profiles are recognized anyhow and converted to the <code>sRGB</code>
2165 chunk, but are rejected if the <code>-define png:preserve-iCCP</code>
2166 is present. Note that not all "sRGB" ICC profiles are recognized
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002167 yet; we will add them to the list as we encounter them.</td>
2168 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002169
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002170 <tr>
2171 <td>png:swap-bytes[=<var>true</var>]</td>
2172 <td>The PNG specification requires that any multi-byte integers be stored in
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002173 network byte order (MSB-LSB endian). This option allows you to
2174 fix any invalid PNG files that have 16-bit samples stored incorrectly
2175 in little-endian order (LSB-MSB). The "-define png:swap-bytes" option
2176 must appear before the input filename on the commandline. The swapping
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002177 is done during the libpng decoding operation.</td>
2178 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002179
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002180 <tr>
2181 <td>profile:skip=<var>name1,name2,...</var></td>
2182 <td>Skip the named profile[s] when reading the image. Use skip="*" to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002183 skip all named profiles in the image. Many named profiles exist,
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002184 including ICC, EXIF, APP1, IPTC, XMP, and others.</td>
2185 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002186
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002187 <tr>
2188 <td>ps:imagemask</td>
2189 <td>If the ps:imagemask flag is defined, the PS3 and EPS3 coders will create
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002190 Postscript files that render bilevel images with the Postscript imagemask
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002191 operator instead of the image operator.</td>
2192 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002193
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002194 <tr>
2195 <td>quantum:format=<var>type</var></td>
2196 <td>Set the type to <code>floating-point</code> to specify a floating-point
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002197 format for raw files (e.g. GRAY:) or for MIFF and TIFF images in HDRI mode
2198 to preserve negative values. If <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> 16 is
2199 included, the result is a single precision floating point format.
2200 If <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> 32 is included, the result is
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002201 double precision floating point format.</td>
2202 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002203
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002204 <tr>
2205 <td>quantum:polarity=<var>photometric-interpretation</var></td>
2206 <td>Set the photometric-interpretation of an image (typically for TIFF image
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002207 file format) to either <code>min-is-black</code> (default) or
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002208 <code>min-is-white</code>.</td>
2209 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002210
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002211 <tr>
2212 <td>sample:offset=<var>geometry</var></td>
2213 <td>Location of the sampling point within the sub-region being sampled,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002214 expressed as percentages (see <a href="command-line-options.html#sample">-sample</a>).</td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002215 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002216
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002217 <tr>
2218 <td>showkernel=<var>1</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002219 <td>Outputs (to 'standard error') all the information about a generated <a href="command-line-options.html#morphology">-morphology</a> kernel.</td>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002220 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002221
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002222 <tr>
2223 <td>stream:buffer-size=<var>value</var></td>
2224 <td>Set the stream buffer size. Select 0 for unbuffered I/O.</td>
2225 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002226
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002227 <tr>
2228 <td>tiff:alpha=<var>associated|unassociated|unspecified</var></td>
2229 <td>Specify the alpha extra samples as associated, unassociated or unspecified </td>
2230 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002231
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002232 <tr>
2233 <td>tiff:endian=<var>msb|lsb</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002234
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002235 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002236 <td>tiff:exif-properties=<var>false</var></td>
2237 <td>Skips reading the EXIF properties.</td>
2238 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002239
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002240 <tr>
2241 <td>tiff:fill-order=<var>msb|lsb</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002242
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002243 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002244 <td>tiff:ignore-tags=<var>comma-separate-list-of-tag-IDs</var></td>
2245 <td>Allows one or more tag ID values to be ignored.</td>
2246 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002247
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002248 <tr>
2249 <td>tiff:rows-per-strip=<var>value</var></td>
2250 <td>Sets the number of rows per strip</td>
2251 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002252
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002253 <tr>
2254 <td>tiff:tile-geometry=<var>WxH</var></td>
2255 <td>Sets the tile size for pyramid tiffs. Requires the suffix
2256 PTIF: before the outputname</td>
2257 </tr>
2258</table>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002259
2260<p>For example, to create a postscript file that will render only the black
2261pixels of a bilevel image, use:</p>
2262
2263<pre>
2264convert bilevel.tif -define ps:imagemask eps3:stencil.ps
2265</pre>
2266
2267<p>Set attributes of the image registry by prefixing the value with
2268<code>registry:</code>. For example, to set a temporary path to put work files,
2269use:</p>
2270
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002271<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002272-define registry:temporary-path=/data/tmp
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002273</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002274
2275<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002276 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="delay"></a>-delay <var>ticks</var> <br>-delay <var>ticks</var>x<var>ticks-per-second</var> {<var>&lt;</var>} {<var>&gt;</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002277</div>
2278
2279<p class="magick-description">display the next image after pausing.</p>
2280
2281<p>This option is useful for regulating the animation of image sequences
2282<var>ticks/ticks-per-second</var> seconds must expire before the display of the
2283next image. The default is no delay between each showing of the image
2284sequence. The default ticks-per-second is 100.</p>
2285
2286<p>Use <code>&gt;</code> to change the image delay <var>only</var> if its current
2287value exceeds the given delay. <code>&lt;</code> changes the image delay
2288<var>only</var> if current value is less than the given delay. For example, if
2289you specify <code>30&gt;</code> and the image delay is 20, the image delay does
2290not change. However, if the image delay is 40 or 50, the delay it is changed
2291to 30. Enclose the given delay in quotation marks to prevent the
2292<code>&lt;</code> or <code>&gt;</code> from being interpreted by your shell as
2293a file redirection.</p>
2294
2295
2296<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002297 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="delete"></a>-delete <var>indexes</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002298</div>
2299
2300<p class="magick-description">delete the images specified by index, from the image sequence.</p>
2301
2302<p>Specify the image by its index in the sequence. The first image is index
23030. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the sequence, for example, -1
2304represents the last image of the sequence. Specify a range of images with
2305a dash (e.g. 0-4). Separate indexes with a comma (e.g. 0,2). Use
2306<code>+delete</code> to delete the last image in the current image sequence.</p>
2307
2308
2309<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002310 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="density"></a>-density <var>width</var><br>-density <var>width</var>x<var>height</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002311</div>
2312
2313<p class="magick-description">Set the horizontal and vertical resolution of an image for rendering to devices.</p>
2314
2315<p>This option specifies the image resolution to store while encoding a raster
2316image or the canvas resolution while rendering (reading) vector formats such
2317as Postscript, PDF, WMF, and SVG into a raster image. Image resolution
2318provides the unit of measure to apply when rendering to an output device or
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002319raster image. The default unit of measure is in dots per inch (DPI). The <a href="command-line-options.html#units">-units</a> option may be used to select dots per centimeter
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002320instead.</p>
2321
2322<p>The default resolution is 72 dots per inch, which is equivalent to one
2323point per pixel (Macintosh and Postscript standard). Computer screens are
2324normally 72 or 96 dots per inch, while printers typically support 150, 300,
2325600, or 1200 dots per inch. To determine the resolution of your display, use
2326a ruler to measure the width of your screen in inches, and divide by the
2327number of horizontal pixels (1024 on a 1024x768 display).</p>
2328
2329<p>If the file format supports it, this option may be used to update the
2330stored image resolution. Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image
2331resolution from a proprietary embedded profile. If this profile is not
2332stripped from the image, then Photoshop will continue to treat the image using
2333its former resolution, ignoring the image resolution specified in the standard
2334file header.</p>
2335
2336<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a> option sets an <var>attribute</var> and
2337does not alter the underlying raster image. It may be used to adjust the
2338rendered size for desktop publishing purposes by adjusting the scale applied
2339to the pixels. To resize the image so that it is the same size at a different
2340resolution, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#resample">-resample</a> option.</p>
2341
2342<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002343 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="depth"></a>-depth <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002344</div>
2345
2346<p class="magick-description">depth of the image.</p>
2347
2348<p>This the number of bits in a color sample within a pixel. Use this option
2349to specify the depth of raw images whose depth is unknown such as GRAY, RGB,
2350or CMYK, or to change the depth of any image after it has been read.</p>
2351
2352<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002353 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="descend"></a>-descend</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002354</div>
2355
2356<p class="magick-description">obtain image by descending window hierarchy.</p>
2357
2358<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002359 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="deskew"></a>-deskew <var>threshold</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002360</div>
2361
2362<p class="magick-description">straighten an image. A threshold of 40% works for most images.</p>
2363
2364<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> <code>option:deskew:auto-crop
2365<var>width</var></code> to auto crop the image. The set argument is the pixel
2366width of the image background (e.g 40).</p>
2367
2368<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002369 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="despeckle"></a>-despeckle</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002370</div>
2371
2372<p class="magick-description">reduce the speckles within an image.</p>
2373
2374<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002375 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="direction"></a>-direction <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002376</div>
2377
2378<p class="magick-description">render text right-to-left or left-to-right.</p>
2379
2380<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002381 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="displace"></a>-displace <var>horizontal-scale</var><br>-displace <var>horizontal-scale</var>x<var>vertical-scale</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002382</div>
2383
2384<p class="magick-description">shift image pixels as defined by a displacement map.</p>
2385
2386<p>With this option, the 'overlay' image, and optionally the 'mask' image,
2387is used as a displacement map, which is used to displace the lookup of
2388what part of the 'background' image is seen at each point of the overlaid
2389area. Much like the displacement map is a 'lens' that redirects light shining
2390through it so as to present a distorted view the original 'background' image
2391behind it. </p>
2392
2393<p>Any perfect grey areas of the displacement map produce a zero
2394displacement of the image. Black areas produce the given maximum negative
2395displacement of the lookup point, while white produce a maximum positive
2396displacement of the lookup. </p>
2397
2398<p>Note that it is the lookup of the 'background' that is displaced, not a
2399displacement of the image itself. As such an area of the displacement map
2400containing 'white' will have the lookup point 'shifted' by a positive amount,
2401and thus generating a copy of the destination image to the right/downward from
2402the correct position. That is the image will look like it may have been
2403'shifted' in a negative left/upward direction. Understanding this is a very
2404important in understanding how displacement maps work. </p>
2405
2406<p>The given arguments define the maximum amount of displacement in pixels
2407that a particular map can produce. If the displacement scale is large enough
2408it is also possible to lookup parts of the 'background' image that lie well
2409outside the bounds of the displacement map itself. That is you could very
2410easily copy a section of the original image from outside the overlay area
2411into the overlay area. </p>
2412
2413<p>The '%' flag makes the displacement scale relative to the size of the
2414overlay image (100% = half width/height of image). Using '!' switches
2415percentage arguments to refer to the destination image size instead.
2416these flags were added as of IM v6.5.3-5.</p>
2417
2418<p>Normally a single grayscale displacement map is provided, which with the
2419given scaling values will determine a single direction (vector) in which
2420displacements can occur (positively or negatively). However, if you also
2421specify a third image which is normally used as a <var>mask</var>,
2422the <var>composite image</var> is used for horizontal X
2423displacement, while the <var>mask image</var> is used for vertical Y
2424displacement. This allows you to define completely different displacement
2425values for the X and Y directions, and allowing you to lookup any point within
2426the <var>scale</var> bounds. In other words each pixel can lookup
2427any other nearby pixel, producing complex 2 dimensional displacements, rather
2428than a simple 1 dimensional vector displacements. </p>
2429
2430<p>Alternatively rather than supplying two separate images, as of IM v6.4.4-0,
2431you can use the 'red' channel of the overlay image to specify the horizontal
2432or X displacement, and the 'green' channel for the vertical or Y displacement.
2433</p>
2434
2435<p>As of IM v6.5.3-5 any alpha channel in the overlay image is used as a
2436mask the transparency of the destination image. However areas outside the
2437overlaid areas will not be effected. </p>
2438
2439
2440<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002441 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="display"></a>-display <var>host:display[.screen]</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002442</div>
2443
2444<p class="magick-description">Specifies the X server to contact.</p>
2445
2446<p>This option is used with convert for obtaining image or font from this
2447X server. See <var>X(1)</var>.</p>
2448
2449<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002450 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="dispose"></a>-dispose <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002451</div>
2452
2453<p class="magick-description">define the GIF disposal image setting for images that are being created or read in. </p>
2454
2455<p>The layer disposal method defines the way each the displayed image is to be
2456modified after the current 'frame' of an animation has finished being
2457displayed (after its 'delay' period), but before the next frame on an
2458animation is to be overlaid onto the display. </p>
2459
2460<p>Here are the valid methods:</p>
2461
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002462<dl class="dl-horizontal">
2463<dt>Undefined</dt><dd>0: No disposal specified (equivalent to '<code>none</code>').</dd>
2464<dt>None</dt><dd>1: Do not dispose, just overlay next frame image.</dd>
2465<dt>Background</dt><dd>2: Clear the frame area with the background color.</dd>
2466<dt>Previous</dt><dd>3: Clear to the image prior to this frames overlay.</dd>
2467</dl>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002468
2469<p>You can also use the numbers given above, which is what the GIF format
2470uses internally to represent the above settings. </p>
2471
2472<p>To print a complete list of dispose methods, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list dispose</a>.</p>
2473
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002474<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">+dispose</a>, turn off the setting and prevent
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002475resetting the layer disposal methods of images being read in. </p>
2476
2477<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> '<code>dispose</code>' method to set the image
2478disposal method for images already in memory.</p>
2479
2480<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002481 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="dissimilarity-threshold"></a>-dissimilarity-threshold <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002482</div>
2483
2484<p class="magick-description">maximum RMSE for subimage match (default 0.2).</p>
2485
2486
2487<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002488 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="dissolve"></a>-dissolve <var>src_percent</var>[x<var>dst_percent</var>]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002489</div>
2490
2491<p class="magick-description">dissolve an image into another by the given percent.</p>
2492
2493<p>The opacity of the composite image is multiplied by the given percent, then
2494it is composited 'over' the main image. If <var>src_percent</var>
2495is greater than 100, start dissolving the main image so it becomes
2496transparent at a value of '<code>200</code>'. If both percentages
2497are given, each image are dissolved to the percentages given. </p>
2498
2499<p>Note that dissolve percentages do not add, two opaque images dissolved
2500'50,50', produce a 75% transparency. For a 50% + 50% blending of the two
2501images, you would need to use dissolve values of '50,100'. </p>
2502
2503<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002504 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="distort"></a>-distort <var>method arguments</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002505</div>
2506
2507<p class="magick-description">distort an image, using the given <var>method</var> and its required <var>arguments</var>.</p>
2508
2509<p>The <var>arguments</var> is a single string containing a list
2510of floating point numbers separated by commas or spaces. The number of
2511and meaning of the floating point values depends on the distortion <var>method</var> being used. </p>
2512
2513<p>Choose from these distortion types:</p>
2514
2515<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
2516 <tr>
2517 <th style="width: 8%">Method</th>
2518 <th>Description</th>
2519 </tr>
2520
2521 <tr>
2522 <td><code>ScaleRotateTranslate</code>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002523 <br>or <code>SRT</code></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002524 <td>
2525 Distort image by first scaling and rotating about a given 'center',
2526 before translating that 'center' to the new location, in that order. It
2527 is an alternative method of specifying a '<code>Affine</code>' type of
2528 distortion, but without shearing effects. It also provides a good way
2529 of rotating and displacing a smaller image for tiling onto a larger
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002530 background (IE 2-dimensional animations). <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002531
2532 The number of arguments determine the specific meaning of each
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002533 argument for the scales, rotation, and translation operations. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002534
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002535 <table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002536 <tr><td>2:</td><td><var>Scale Angle</var></td></tr>
2537 <tr><td>3:</td><td><var>X,Y Angle</var></td></tr>
2538 <tr><td>4:</td><td><var>X,Y Scale Angle</var></td></tr>
2539 <tr><td>5:</td>
2540 <td><var>X,Y ScaleX,ScaleY Angle</var></td></tr>
2541 <tr><td>6:</td>
2542 <td><var>X,Y Scale Angle NewX,NewY</var></td></tr>
2543 <tr><td>7:</td>
2544 <td><var>X,Y ScaleX,ScaleY Angle
2545 NewX,NewY</var></td></tr>
2546 </table>
2547
2548 This is actually an alternative way of specifying a 2 dimensional linear
2549 '<code>Affine</code>' or '<code>AffineProjection</code>' distortion. </td> </tr>
2550
2551 <tr>
2552 <td><code>Affine</code></td>
2553 <td>
2554 Distort the image linearly by moving a list of at least 3 or more sets
2555 of control points (as defined below). Ideally 3 sets or 12 floating
2556 point values are given allowing the image to be linearly scaled,
2557 rotated, sheared, and translated, according to those three points. See
2558 also the related '<code>AffineProjection</code>' and '<code>SRT</code>'
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002559 distortions. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002560
2561 More than 3 sets given control point pairs (12 numbers) is least
2562 squares fitted to best match a linear affine distortion. If only 2
2563 control point pairs (8 numbers) are given a two point image translation
2564 rotation and scaling is performed, without any possible shearing,
2565 flipping or changes in aspect ratio to the resulting image. If only one
2566 control point pair is provides the image is only translated, (which may
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002567 be a floating point non-integer translation). <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002568
2569 This distortion does not include any form of perspective distortion.
2570 </td>
2571
2572 </tr>
2573
2574 <tr>
2575 <td><code>AffineProjection</code></td>
2576 <td>
2577 Linearly distort an image using the given Affine Matrix of 6
2578 pre-calculated coefficients forming a set of Affine Equations to map
2579 the source image to the destination image.
2580
2581 <div style="text-align: center"><var>
2582 s<sub>x</sub>, r<sub>x</sub>,
2583 r<sub>y</sub>, s<sub>y</sub>,
2584 t<sub>x</sub>, t<sub>y</sub>
2585 </var></div>
2586
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002587 See <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a> setting for more detail, and
2588 meanings of these coefficients. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002589
2590 The distortions '<code>Affine</code>' and '<code>SRT</code>' provide
2591 alternative methods of defining this distortion, with ImageMagick doing
2592 the calculations needed to generate the required coefficients. You can
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002593 see the internally generated coefficients, by using a <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> setting with those other variants. </td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002594
2595 </tr>
2596
2597 <tr>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002598 <td><code>BilinearForward</code><br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002599 <code>BilinearReverse</code></td>
2600 <td>
2601 Bilinear Distortion, given a minimum of 4 sets of coordinate pairs, or
2602 16 values (see below). Not that lines may not appear straight after
2603 distortion, though the distance between coordinates will remain
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002604 consistent. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002605
2606 The '<code>BilinearForward</code>' is used to map rectangles to any
2607 quadrilateral, while the '<code>BilinearReverse</code>' form maps any
2608 quadrilateral to a rectangle, while preserving the straight line edges
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002609 in each case. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002610
2611 Note that '<code>BilinearForward</code>' can generate invalid pixels
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002612 which will be colored using the <a href="command-line-options.html#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002613 color setting. Also if the quadrilateral becomes 'flipped' the image
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002614 may disappear. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002615
2616 There are future plans to produce a true Bilinear distortion that will
2617 attempt to map any quadrilateral to any other quadrilateral, while
2618 preserving edges (and edge distance ratios).
2619
2620 </td>
2621 </tr>
2622
2623 <tr>
2624 <td><code>Perspective</code></td>
2625 <td>
2626 Perspective distort the images, using a list of 4 or more sets of
2627 control points (as defined below). More that 4 sets (16 numbers) of
2628 control points provide least squares fitting for more accurate
2629 distortions (for the purposes of image registration and panorama
2630 effects). Less than 4 sets will fall back to a '<code>Affine</code>'
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002631 linear distortion. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002632
2633 Perspective Distorted images ensures that straight lines remain
2634 straight, but the scale of the distorted image will vary. The horizon
2635 is anti-aliased, and the 'sky' color may be set using the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002636 <a href="command-line-options.html#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a> setting. </td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002637 </tr>
2638
2639 <tr>
2640 <td><code>PerspectiveProjection</code> </td>
2641 <td>
2642 Do a '<code>Perspective</code>' distortion biased on a set of 8
2643 pre-calculated coefficients. You can get these coefficients by looking
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002644 at the <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> output of a
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002645 '<code>Perspective</code>' distortion, or by calculating them yourself.
2646 If the last two perspective scaling coefficients are zero, the
2647 remaining 6 represents a transposed 'Affine Matrix'. </td>
2648
2649 </tr>
2650
2651 <tr>
2652 <td><code>Arc</code></td>
2653 <td>
2654 Arc the image (variation of polar mapping) over the angle given around
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002655 a circle. <br>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002656 <table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002657 <tr><td>Argument</td>
2658 <td>Meaning</td></tr>
2659 <tr><td><var>arc_angle</var></td>
2660 <td>The angle over which to arc the image side-to-side</td></tr>
2661 <tr><td><var>rotate_angle</var></td>
2662 <td>Angle to rotate resulting image from vertical center</td></tr>
2663 <tr><td><var>top_radius</var></td>
2664 <td>Set top edge of source image at this radius</td></tr>
2665 <tr><td><var>bottom_radius</var> </td>
2666 <td>Set bottom edge to this radius (radial scaling)</td></tr>
2667 </table>
2668
2669 The resulting image is always resized to best fit the resulting image,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002670 (as if using <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">+distort</a>) while attempting to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002671 preserve scale and aspect ratio of the original image as much as
2672 possible with the arguments given by the user. All four arguments will
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002673 be needed to change the overall aspect ratio of an 'Arc'ed image. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002674
2675 This a variation of a polar distortion designed to try to preserve the
2676 aspect ratio of the image rather than direct Cartesian to Polar
2677 conversion. </td>
2678 </tr>
2679
2680 <tr>
2681 <td><code>Polar</code></td>
2682 <td>
2683 Like '<code>Arc</code>' but do a complete Cartesian to Polar mapping of
2684 the image. that is the height of the input image is mapped to the
2685 radius limits, while the width is wrapped around between the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002686 angle limits. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002687
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002688 Arguments: <var>Rmax,Rmin CenterX,CenterY, start,end_angle</var> <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002689
2690 All arguments are optional. With <var>Rmin</var> defaulting to zero, the
2691 center to the center of the image, and the angles going from -180 (top)
2692 to +180 (top). If <var>Rmax</var> is given the special value of
2693 '<code>0</code>', the the distance from the center to the nearest edge
2694 is used for the radius of the output image, which will ensure the whole
2695 image is visible (though scaled smaller). However a special value of
2696 '<code>-1</code>' will use the distance from the center to the furthest
2697 corner, This may 'clip' the corners from the input rectangular image,
2698 but will generate the exact reverse of a '<code>DePolar</code>' with
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002699 the same arguments. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002700
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002701 If the plus form of distort (<a href="command-line-options.html#distort">+distort</a>) is used
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002702 output image center will default to <code>0,0</code> of the virtual
2703 canvas, and the image size adjusted to ensure the whole input image is
2704 made visible in the output image on the virtual canvas. </td>
2705
2706 </tr>
2707
2708 <tr>
2709 <td><code>DePolar</code></td>
2710 <td>
2711 Uses the same arguments and meanings as a '<code>Polar</code>' distortion
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002712 but generates the reverse Polar to Cartesian distortion. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002713
2714 The special <var>Rmax</var> setting of '<code>0</code>' may however clip
2715 the corners of the input image. However using the special
2716 <var>Rmax</var> setting of '<code>-1</code>' (maximum center to corner
2717 distance) will ensure the whole distorted image is preserved in the
2718 generated result, so that the same argument to '<code>Polar</code>' will
2719 reverse the distortion re-producing the original.
2720
2721 Note that as this distortion requires the area resampling of a circular
2722 arc, which can not be handled by the builtin EWA resampling function.
2723 As such the normal EWA filters are turned off. It is recommended some
2724 form of 'super-sampling' image processing technique be used to produce
2725 a high quality result. </td>
2726
2727 </tr>
2728
2729 <tr>
2730 <td><code>Barrel</code></td>
2731 <td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002732 Given the four coefficients (A,B,C,D) as defined by <a href="http://wiki.panotools.org/Lens_correction_model">Helmut
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002733 Dersch</a>, perform a barrel or pin-cushion distortion appropriate to
2734 correct radial lens distortions. That is in photographs, make straight
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002735 lines straight again. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002736
2737 Arguments: <var>A B C</var> [ <var>D</var> [
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002738 <var>X</var> , <var>Y</var> ] ] <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002739 or <var>A<sub>x</sub> B<sub>x</sub> C<sub>x</sub> D<sub>x</sub>
2740 A<sub>y</sub> B<sub>y</sub> C<sub>y</sub> D<sub>y</sub></var>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002741 [ <var>X</var> , <var>Y</var> ] <br>
2742 So that it forms the function <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002743 Rsrc = r * ( <var>A</var>*r<sup>3</sup> + <var>B</var>*r<sup>2</sup> +
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002744 <var>C</var>*r + <var>D</var> )<br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002745
2746 Where <var>X</var>,<var>Y</var> is the optional center of the distortion
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002747 (defaulting to the center of the image). <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002748 The second form is typically used to distort images, rather than
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002749 correct lens distortions. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002750 </td>
2751
2752 </tr>
2753
2754 <tr>
2755 <td><code>BarrelInverse</code></td>
2756 <td>
2757 This is very similar to '<code>Barrel</code>' with the same set of
2758 arguments, and argument handling. However it uses the inverse
2759 of the radial polynomial,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002760 so that it forms the function <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002761 Rsrc = r / ( <var>A</var>*r<sup>3</sup> + <var>B</var>*r<sup>2</sup> +
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002762 <var>C</var>*r + <var>D</var> )<br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002763 Note that this is not the reverse of the '<code>Barrel</code>'
2764 distortion, just a different barrel-like radial distortion method.
2765
2766 </td>
2767 </tr>
2768
2769 <tr>
2770 <td><code>Shepards</code></td>
2771 <td>
2772 Distort the given list control points (any number) using an Inverse
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002773 Squared Distance Interpolation Method (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_method">Shepards
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002774 Method</a>). The control points in effect do 'localized' displacement
2775 of the image around the given control point (preserving the look and
2776 the rotation of the area near the control points. For best results
2777 extra control points should be added to 'lock' the positions of the
2778 corners, edges and other unchanging parts of the image, to prevent
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002779 their movement. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002780
2781 The distortion has been likened to 'taffy pulling' using nails, or
2782 pins' stuck in a block of 'jelly' which is then moved to the new
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002783 position, distorting the surface of the jelly. <br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002784
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002785 Internally it is equivalent to generating a displacement map (see <a href="command-line-options.html#displace">-displace</a>) for source image color look-up using
2786 the <a href="command-line-options.html#sparse-color">-sparse-color</a> method of the same name.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002787
2788 </td>
2789 </tr>
2790
2791</table>
2792
2793<p>To print a complete list of distortion methods, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
2794distort</a>.</p>
2795
2796<p>Many of the above distortion methods such as '<code>Affine</code>',
2797'<code>Perspective</code>', and '<code>Shepards</code>' use a list control points
2798defining how these points in the given image should be distorted in the
2799destination image. Each set of four floating point values represent a source
2800image coordinate, followed immediately by the destination image coordinate.
2801This produces a list of values such as...</p>
2802<div style="text-align: center"><var>
2803 U<sub>1</sub>,V<sub>1</sub> X<sub>1</sub>,Y<sub>1</sub>
2804 U<sub>2</sub>,V<sub>2</sub> X<sub>2</sub>,Y<sub>2</sub>
2805 U<sub>3</sub>,V<sub>3</sub> X<sub>3</sub>,Y<sub>3</sub>
2806 ...
2807 U<sub>n</sub>,V<sub>n</sub> X<sub>n</sub>,Y<sub>n</sub>
2808</var></div>
2809<p>where <var>U,V</var> on the source image is mapped to <var>X,Y</var> on the
2810destination image. </p>
2811
2812<p>For example, to warp an image using '<code>perspective</code>' distortion,
2813needs a list of at least 4 sets of coordinates, or 16 numbers. Here is the
2814perspective distortion of the built-in "rose:" image. Note how spaces were
2815used to group the 4 sets of coordinate pairs, to make it easier to read and
2816understand.</p>
2817
2818<pre>
2819convert rose: -virtual-pixel black \
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002820 -distort Perspective '0,0,0,0 0,45,0,45 69,0,60,10 69,45,60,35' \
2821 rose_3d_rotated.gif"
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002822</pre>
2823
2824<p>If more that the required number of coordinate pairs are given for
2825a distortion, the distortion method is 'least squares' fitted to produce the
2826best result for all the coordinate pairs given. If less than the ideal number
2827of points are given, the distort will generally fall back to a simpler form of
2828distortion that can handles the smaller number of coordinates (usually a linear
2829'<code>Affine</code>' distortion). </p>
2830
2831<p>By using more coordinates you can make use of image registration tool to
2832find matching coordinate pairs in overlapping images, so as to improve the
2833'fit' of the distortion. Of course a bad coordinate pair can also make the
2834'fit' worse. Caution is always advised. </p>
2835
2836<p>Colors are acquired from the source image according to a cylindrical
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002837resampling <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a>, using a special technique known as
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002838EWA resampling. This produces very high quality results, especially when
2839images become smaller (minified) in the output, which is very common when
2840using '<code>perspective</code>' distortion. For example here we view
2841a infinitely tiled 'plane' all the way to the horizon. </p>
2842
2843<pre>
2844convert -size 90x90 pattern:checkerboard -normalize -virtual-pixel tile \
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002845 -distort perspective '0,0,5,45 89,0,45,46 0,89,0,89 89,89,89,89' \
2846 checks_tiled.jpg
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002847</pre>
2848
2849<p>Note that a infinitely tiled perspective images involving the horizon can
2850be very slow, because of the number of pixels that are compressed to generate
2851each individual pixel close to the 'horizon'. You can turn off EWA
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002852resampling, by specifing the special <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting of
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002853'<code>point</code>' (recommended if you plan to use super-sampling instead).
2854</p>
2855
2856<p>If an image generates <i>invalid pixels</i>, such as the 'sky' in the last
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002857example, <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a> will use the current <a href="command-line-options.html#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a> setting for these pixels. If you do not
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002858what these pixels to be visible, set the color to match the rest of the
2859ground. </p>
2860
2861<p>The output image size will by default be the same as the input image. This
2862means that if the part of the distorted image falls outside the viewed area of
2863the 'distorted space', those parts is clipped and lost. However if you use
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002864the plus form of the operator (<a href="command-line-options.html#distort">+distort</a>) the operator
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002865will attempt (if possible) to show the whole of the distorted image, while
2866retaining a correct 'virtual canvas' offset, for image layering. This offset
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002867may need to be removed using <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a>, to remove if it
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002868is unwanted. </p>
2869
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002870<p>Setting <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> setting, will cause <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a> to attempt to output the internal coefficients,
2871and the <a href="command-line-options.html#fx">-fx</a> equivalent to the distortion, for expert study,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002872and debugging purposes. This many not be available for all distorts. </p>
2873
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002874<p>You can alternatively specify a special "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> distort:viewport={geometry_string}</code>" setting which will
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002875specify the size and the offset of the generated 'viewport' image of the
2876distorted image space.</p>
2877
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002878<p>Setting a "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002879distort:scale={scale_factor}</code>" will scale the output image (viewport or
2880otherwise) by that factor without changing the viewed contents of the
2881distorted image. This can be used either for 'super-sampling' the image for
2882a higher quality result, or for panning and zooming around the image (with
2883appropriate viewport changes, or post-distort cropping and resizing). </p>
2884
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002885<p>Setting "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> resample:verbose=1</code>"
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002886will output the cylindrical filter lookup table created by the EWA (Elliptical
2887Weighted Average) resampling algorithm. Note this table uses a squared radius
2888lookup value. This is typically only used for debugging EWA resampling. </p>
2889
2890
2891<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002892 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="distribute-cache"></a>-distribute-cache <var>port</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002893</div>
2894
2895<p class="magick-description">launch a distributed pixel cache server. </p>
2896
2897<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002898 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="dither"></a>-dither <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002899</div>
2900
2901<p class="magick-description">Apply a Riemersma or Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion dither to
2902images when general color reduction is applied via an option, or automagically
2903when saving to specific formats. This enabled by default.</p>
2904
2905<p>Dithering places two or more colors in neighboring pixels so that to the
2906eye a closer approximation of the images original color is reproduced. This
2907reduces the number of colors needed to reproduce the image but at the cost of
2908a lower level pattern of colors. Error diffusion dithers can use any set of
2909colors (generated or user defined) to an image. </p>
2910
2911<p>Dithering is turned on by default, to turn it off use the plus form of the
2912setting, <a href="command-line-options.html#dither">+dither</a>. This will also also render PostScript
2913without text or graphic aliasing. Disabling dithering often (but not always)
2914leads to faster process, a smaller number of colors, but more cartoon like
2915image coloring. Generally resulting in 'color banding' effects in areas with
2916color gradients. </p>
2917
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002918<p>The color reduction operators <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#monochrome">-monochrome</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#remap%20">-remap</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#posterize">-posterize</a>, apply dithering to images using the reduced
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002919color set they created. These operators are also used as part of automatic
2920color reduction when saving images to formats with limited color support, such
2921as <code>GIF:</code>, <code>XBM:</code>, and others, so dithering may also be used
2922in these cases. </p>
2923
2924<p>Alternatively you can use <a href="command-line-options.html#random-threshold">-random-threshold</a>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002925to generate purely random dither. Or use <a href="command-line-options.html#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a> to apply threshold mapped dither
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002926patterns, using uniform color maps, rather than specific color maps. </p>
2927
2928
2929<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002930 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="draw"></a>-draw <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002931</div>
2932
2933<p class="magick-description">Annotate an image with one or more graphic primitives.</p>
2934
2935<p>Use this option to annotate or decorate an image with one or more graphic
2936primitives. The primitives include shapes, text, transformations, and pixel
2937operations.</p>
2938
2939<p>The shape primitives:</p>
2940
2941<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002942point x,y
2943line x0,y0 x1,y1
2944rectangle x0,y0 x1,y1
2945roundRectangle x0,y0 x1,y1 wc,hc
2946arc x0,y0 x1,y1 a0,a1
2947ellipse x0,y0 rx,ry a0,a1
2948circle x0,y0 x1,y1
2949polyline x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2950polygon x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2951bezier x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2952path specification
2953image operator x0,y0 w,h filename
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002954</pre>
2955
2956<p>The text primitive:</p>
2957
2958<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002959text x0,y0 string
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002960</pre>
2961<p>The text gravity primitive:</p>
2962
2963<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002964gravity NorthWest, North, NorthEast, West, Center,
2965 East, SouthWest, South, or SouthEast
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002966</pre>
2967
2968<p>The text gravity primitive only affects the placement of text and does not
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002969interact with the other primitives. It is equivalent to using the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> command-line option, except that it is limited in
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002970scope to the <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> option in which it appears.</p>
2971
2972<p>The transformation primitives:</p>
2973
2974<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002975rotate degrees
2976translate dx,dy
2977scale sx,sy
2978skewX degrees
2979skewY degrees
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002980</pre>
2981
2982<p>The pixel operation primitives:</p>
2983
2984<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00002985color x0,y0 method
2986matte x0,y0 method
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002987</pre>
2988
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002989<p>The shape primitives are drawn in the color specified by the preceding <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> setting. For unfilled shapes, use <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill none</a>. You can optionally control the stroke (the
2990"outline" of a shape) with the <a href="command-line-options.html#stroke">-stroke</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#strokewidth">-strokewidth</a> settings.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002991
2992<p>A <code>point</code> primitive is specified by a single <var>point</var> in the
2993pixel plane, that is, by an ordered pair of integer coordinates,
2994<var>x</var>,<var>y</var>. (As it involves only a single pixel, a <code>point</code>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00002995primitive is not affected by <a href="command-line-options.html#stroke">-stroke</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#strokewidth">-strokewidth</a>.)</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00002996
2997<p>A <code>line</code> primitive requires a start point and end point.</p>
2998
2999<p>A <code>rectangle</code> primitive is specified by the pair of points at the
3000upper left and lower right corners.</p>
3001
3002<p>A <code>roundRectangle</code> primitive takes the same corner points as
3003a <code>rectangle</code> followed by the width and height of the rounded corners
3004to be removed.</p>
3005
3006<p>The <code>circle</code> primitive makes a disk (filled) or circle (unfilled).
3007Give the center and any point on the perimeter (boundary).</p>
3008
3009<p>The <code>arc</code> primitive is used to inscribe an elliptical segment in
3010to a given rectangle. An <code>arc</code> requires the two corners used for
3011<code>rectangle</code> (see above) followed by the start and end angles of the
3012arc of the segment segment (e.g. 130,30 200,100 45,90). The start and end
3013points produced are then joined with a line segment and the resulting segment
3014of an ellipse is filled.</p>
3015
3016<p>Use <code>ellipse</code> to draw a partial (or whole) ellipse. Give the
3017center point, the horizontal and vertical "radii" (the <var>semi-axes</var> of
3018the ellipse) and start and end angles in degrees (e.g. 100,100 100,150
30190,360).</p>
3020
3021<p>The <code>polyline</code> and <code>polygon</code> primitives require three or
3022more points to define their perimeters. A <code>polyline</code> is simply
3023a <code>polygon</code> in which the final point is not stroked to the start
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003024point. When unfilled, this is a <var>polygonal line</var>. If the <a href="command-line-options.html#stroke">-stroke</a> setting is <code>none</code> (the default), then
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003025a <code>polyline</code> is identical to a <code>polygon</code>. </p>
3026
3027<p>A <var>coordinate</var> is a pair of integers separated by a space or
3028optional comma. </p>
3029
3030<p>As an example, to define a circle centered at 100,100 that extends to
3031150,150 use:</p>
3032
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003033<pre>
3034-draw 'circle 100,100 150,150'
3035</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003036
3037<p>The <code>Bezier</code> primitive creates a spline curve and requires three
3038or points to define its shape. The first and last points are the
3039<var>knots</var> and these points are attained by the curve, while any
3040intermediate coordinates are <var>control points</var>. If two control points
3041are specified, the line between each end knot and its sequentially respective
3042control point determines the tangent direction of the curve at that end. If
3043one control point is specified, the lines from the end knots to the one
3044control point determines the tangent directions of the curve at each end. If
3045more than two control points are specified, then the additional control points
3046act in combination to determine the intermediate shape of the curve. In order
3047to draw complex curves, it is highly recommended either to use the
3048<code>path</code> primitive or to draw multiple four-point bezier segments with
3049the start and end knots of each successive segment repeated. For example:</p>
3050
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003051<pre>
3052-draw 'bezier 20,50 45,100 45,0 70,50'
3053-draw 'bezier 70,50 95,100 95,0 120,50'
3054</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003055
3056<p>A <code>path</code> represents an outline of an object, defined in terms of
3057moveto (set a new current point), lineto (draw a straight line), curveto (draw
3058a Bezier curve), arc (elliptical or circular arc) and closepath (close the
3059current shape by drawing a line to the last moveto) elements. Compound paths
3060(i.e., a path with subpaths, each consisting of a single moveto followed by
3061one or more line or curve operations) are possible to allow effects such as
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003062<var>donut holes</var> in objects. (See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html">Paths</a>.)</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003063
3064<p>Use <code>image</code> to composite an image with another image. Follow the
3065image keyword with the composite operator, image location, image size, and
3066filename:</p>
3067
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003068<pre>
3069-draw 'image SrcOver 100,100 225,225 image.jpg'
3070</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003071
3072<p>You can use 0,0 for the image size, which means to use the actual
3073dimensions found in the image header. Otherwise, it is scaled to the given
3074dimensions. See <a href="compose.html">Alpha Compositing</a> for
3075a detailed discussion of alpha composition methods that are available. </p>
3076
3077<p>The "special augmented compose operators" such as "dissolve" that require
3078arguments cannot be used at present with the <code>-draw image</code> option.
3079 </p>
3080
3081<p>Use <code>text</code> to annotate an image with text. Follow the text
3082coordinates with a string. If the string has embedded spaces, enclose it in
3083single or double quotes.</p>
3084
3085<p>For example, the following annotates the image with <code>Works like
3086magick!</code> for an image titled <code>bird.miff</code>. </p>
3087
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003088<pre>
3089-draw "text 100,100 'Works like magick!' "
3090</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003091
3092<p>See the <a href="command-line-options.html#annotate">-annotate</a> option for another convenient way
3093to annotate an image with text.</p>
3094
3095<p>The <code>rotate</code> primitive rotates subsequent shape primitives and
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003096text primitives about the origin of the main image. If the <a href="command-line-options.html#region">-region</a> option precedes the <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003097option, the origin for transformations is the upper left corner of the
3098region.</p>
3099
3100<p>The <code>translate</code> primitive translates subsequent shape and text
3101primitives.</p>
3102
3103<p>The <code>scale</code> primitive scales them.</p>
3104
3105<p>The <code>skewX</code> and <code>skewY</code> primitives skew them with respect
3106to the origin of the main image or the region.</p>
3107
3108<p>The transformations modify the current affine matrix, which is initialized
3109from the initial affine matrix defined by the <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a>
3110option. Transformations are cumulative within the <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a>
3111option. The initial affine matrix is not affected; that matrix is only changed
3112by the appearance of another <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a> option. If another
3113<a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> option appears, the current affine matrix is
3114reinitialized from the initial affine matrix.</p>
3115
3116<p>Use the <code>color</code> primitive to change the color of a pixel to the
3117fill color (see <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a>). Follow the pixel coordinate with
3118a method:</p>
3119
3120<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003121point
3122replace
3123floodfill
3124filltoborder
3125reset
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003126</pre>
3127
3128<p>Consider the target pixel as that specified by your coordinate. The
3129<code>point</code> method recolors the target pixel. The <code>replace</code>
3130method recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel.
3131<code>Floodfill</code> recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target
3132pixel and is a neighbor, whereas <code>filltoborder</code> recolors any neighbor
3133pixel that is not the border color. Finally, <code>reset</code> recolors all
3134pixels.</p>
3135
3136<p>Use <code>matte</code> to the change the pixel matte value to transparent.
3137Follow the pixel coordinate with a method (see the <code>color</code> primitive
3138for a description of methods). The <code>point</code> method changes the matte
3139value of the target pixel. The <code>replace</code> method changes the matte
3140value of any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel.
3141<code>Floodfill</code> changes the matte value of any pixel that matches the
3142color of the target pixel and is a neighbor, whereas <code>filltoborder</code>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003143changes the matte value of any neighbor pixel that is not the border color (<a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a>). Finally <code>reset</code> changes the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003144matte value of all pixels.</p>
3145
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003146<p>You can set the primitive color, font, and font bounding box color with <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#font">-font</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#box">-box</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003147respectively. Options are processed in command line order so be sure to use
3148these options <var>before</var> the <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> option.</p>
3149
3150<p>Strings that begin with a number must be quoted (e.g. use '1.png' rather
3151than 1.png).</p>
3152
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003153<p>Drawing primitives conform to the <a href="magick-vector-graphics.html">Magick
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003154Vector Graphics</a> format.</p>
3155
3156
3157<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003158 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="duplicate"></a>-duplicate <var>count,indexes</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003159</div>
3160
3161<p class="magick-description">duplicate an image one or more times.</p>
3162
3163<p>Specify the count and the image to duplicate by its index in the sequence.
3164The first image is index 0. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the
3165sequence, for example, -1 represents the last image of the sequence. Specify
3166a range of images with a dash (e.g. 0-4). Separate indexes with a comma (e.g.
31670,2). Use <code>+duplicate</code> to duplicate the last image in the current
3168image sequence.</p>
3169
3170<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003171 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="edge"></a>-edge <var>radius</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003172</div>
3173
3174<p class="magick-description">detect edges within an image.</p>
3175
3176<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003177 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="emboss"></a>-emboss <var>radius</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003178</div>
3179
3180<p class="magick-description">emboss an image.</p>
3181
3182<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003183 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="encipher"></a>-encipher <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003184</div>
3185
3186<p class="magick-description">Encipher pixels for later deciphering by <a href="command-line-options.html#decipher">-decipher</a>.</p>
3187
3188<p>Get the passphrase from the file specified by <var>filename</var>.</p>
3189
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003190<p>For more information, see the webpage, <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/cipher.html">ImageMagick: Encipher or
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003191Decipher an Image</a>.</p>
3192
3193
3194
3195<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003196 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="encoding"></a>-encoding <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003197</div>
3198
3199<p class="magick-description">specify the text encoding.</p>
3200
3201<p>Choose from <code>AdobeCustom</code>, <code>AdobeExpert</code>,
3202<code>AdobeStandard</code>, <code>AppleRoman</code>, <code>BIG5</code>,
3203<code>GB2312</code>, <code>Latin 2</code>, <code>None</code>, <code>SJIScode</code>,
3204<code>Symbol</code>, <code>Unicode</code>, <code>Wansung</code>.</p>
3205
3206<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003207 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="endian"></a>-endian <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003208</div>
3209
3210<p class="magick-description">Specify endianness (<code>MSB</code> or <code>LSB</code>) of the image.</p>
3211
3212<p>To print a complete list of endian types, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list endian</a> option.</p>
3213
3214<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#endian">+endian</a> to revert to unspecified endianness.</p>
3215
3216
3217<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003218 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="enhance"></a>-enhance</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003219</div>
3220
3221<p class="magick-description">Apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image.</p>
3222
3223
3224<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003225 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="equalize"></a>-equalize</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003226</div>
3227
3228<p class="magick-description">perform histogram equalization on the image channel-by-channel.</p>
3229
3230<p>To perform histogram equalization on all channels in concert, transform the
3231image into some other color space, such as HSL, OHTA, YIQ or YUV, then
3232equalize the appropriate intensity-like channel, then convert back to RGB.</p>
3233
3234<p>For example using HSL, we have: ... <code>-colorspace HSL -channel lightness
3235-equalize -colorspace RGB</code> ...</p>
3236
3237<p>For YIQ, YUV and OHTA use the red channel. For example, OHTA is a principal
3238components transformation that puts most of the information in the first
3239channel. Here we have ... <code>-colorspace OHTA -channel red -equalize
3240-colorspace RGB</code> ...</p>
3241
3242<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003243 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="evaluate"></a>-evaluate <var>operator value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003244</div>
3245
3246<p class="magick-description">Alter channel pixels by evaluating an arithmetic, relational, or logical expression.</p>
3247
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003248<p>(See the <a href="command-line-options.html#function">-function</a> operator for some
3249multi-parameter functions. See the <a href="command-line-options.html#fx">-fx</a> operator if more
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003250elaborate calculations are needed.)</p>
3251
3252<p>The behaviors of each <var>operator</var> are summarized in the
3253following list. For brevity, the numerical value of a "pixel" referred to
3254below is the value of the corresponding channel of that pixel, while
3255a "normalized pixel" is that number divided by the maximum
3256(installation-dependent) value <var>QuantumRange</var>. (If
3257normalized pixels are used, they are restored, following the other
3258calculations, to the full range by multiplying by <var>QuantumRange</var>.)</p>
3259
3260<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003261 <col width="25%">
3262 <col width="75%">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003263 <thead>
3264 <tr>
3265 <th><var>operator</var></th>
3266 <th>Summary (see further below for details)</th>
3267 </tr>
3268 </thead>
3269 <tbody>
3270
3271 <tr><td>Abs </td> <td>Add <var>value</var> to pixels and return absolute value. </td></tr>
3272 <tr><td>Add </td> <td>Add <var>value</var> to pixels. </td></tr>
3273 <tr><td>AddModulus </td> <td>Add <var>value</var> to pixels modulo <var>QuantumRange</var>.</td></tr>
3274 <tr><td>And </td> <td>Binary AND of pixels with <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3275 <tr><td>Cos, Cosine </td> <td>Apply cosine to pixels with frequency <var>value</var> with 50% bias added.</td></tr>
3276 <tr><td>Divide </td> <td>Divide pixels by <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3277 <tr><td>Exp </td> <td>base-e exponential function</td></tr>
3278 <tr><td>Exponential </td> <td>base-e exponential function</td></tr>
3279 <tr><td>LeftShift </td> <td>Shift the pixel values left by <var>value</var> bits (i.e., multiply pixels by 2<sup><var>value</var></sup>).</td></tr>
3280 <tr><td>Log </td> <td>Apply scaled logarithm to normalized pixels.</td></tr>
3281 <tr><td>Max </td> <td>Clip pixels at lower bound <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3282 <tr><td>Mean </td> <td>Add the <var>value</var> and divide by 2.</td></tr>
3283 <tr><td>Median </td> <td>Choose the median value from an image sequence.</td></tr>
3284 <tr><td>Min </td> <td>Clip pixels at upper bound <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3285 <tr><td>Multiply </td> <td>Multiply pixels by <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3286 <tr><td>Or </td> <td>Binary OR of pixels with <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3287 <tr><td>Pow </td> <td>Raise normalized pixels to the power <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3288 <tr><td>RightShift </td> <td>Shift the pixel values right by <var>value</var> bits (i.e., divide pixels by 2<sup><var>value</var></sup>).</td></tr>
3289 <tr><td>RMS</td> <td>Square the pixel and add the <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3290 <tr><td>RootMeanSquare</td> <td>Square the pixel and add the <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3291 <tr><td>Set </td> <td>Set pixel equal to <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3292 <tr><td>Sin, Sine </td> <td>Apply sine to pixels with frequency <var>value</var> with 50% bias added.</td></tr>
3293 <tr><td>Subtract </td> <td>Subtract <var>value</var> from pixels.</td></tr>
3294 <tr><td>Xor </td> <td>Binary XOR of pixels with <var>value.</var></td></tr>
3295
cristya1890f02015-05-15 23:32:44 +00003296 <tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003297
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003298 <tr><td>Gaussian-noise</td><td> </td></tr>
3299 <tr><td>Impulse-noise</td><td> </td></tr>
3300 <tr><td>Laplacian-noise</td><td> </td></tr>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003301 <tr><td>Multiplicative-noise</td> <td>(These are equivalent to the corresponding <a href="command-line-options.html#noise">-noise</a> operators.)</td></tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003302 <tr><td>PoissonNoise</td><td> </td></tr>
3303 <tr><td>Uniform-noise</td><td> </td></tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003304
cristya1890f02015-05-15 23:32:44 +00003305 <tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003306
3307 <tr><td>Threshold </td> <td>Threshold pixels larger than <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3308 <tr><td>ThresholdBlack </td> <td>Threshold pixels to zero values equal to or below <var>value</var>.</td></tr>
3309 <tr><td>ThresholdWhite </td> <td>Threshold pixels to maximum values above <var>value</var>. </td></tr>
3310 </tbody>
3311 </table>
3312
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003313<p>The specified functions are applied only to each previously set <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> in the image. If necessary, the results of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003314calculations are truncated (clipped) to fit in the interval [0, <var>QuantumRange</var>]. The transparency channel of the image is
3315represented as a 'alpha' values (0 = fully transparent), so, for example, a
3316<code>Divide</code> by 2 of the alpha channel will make the image
3317semi-transparent. Append the percent symbol '<code>%</code>' to specify a value
3318as a percentage of the <var>QuantumRange</var>.</p>
3319
3320<p>To print a complete list of <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operators, use
3321<a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list evaluate</a>.</p>
3322
3323<p>The results of the <code>Add</code>, <code>Subtract</code> and
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003324<code>Multiply</code> methods can also be achieved using either the <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> or the <a href="command-line-options.html#level">+level</a> operator, with
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003325appropriate argument, to linearly modify the overall range of color values.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003326Please note, however, that <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> treats transparency as
3327'matte' values (0 = opaque), while <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-evaluate</a> works with
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003328'alpha' values.</p>
3329
3330<p><code>AddModulus</code> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.8-4 and provides
3331addition modulo the <var>QuantumRange</var>. It is therefore
3332equivalent to <code>Add</code> unless the resulting pixel value is outside the
3333interval [0, <var>QuantumRange</var>]. </p>
3334
3335<p><code>Exp or Exponential</code> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.6.5-1 and
3336works on normalized pixel values. The <var>value</var> used with
3337<code>Exp</code> should be negative so as to produce a decaying exponential
3338function. Non-negative values will always produce results larger unity and
3339thus outside the interval [0, <var>QuantumRange</var>]. The
3340formula is expressed below. </p>
3341
cristya1890f02015-05-15 23:32:44 +00003342<p class="text-center">
3343exp(<var>value</var> × <b><var>u</var></b>)
3344</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003345
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003346<p> If the input image is squared, for example, using <a href="command-line-options.html#-function">-function polynomial "2 0 0"</a>, then a decaying Gaussian function will be
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003347the result.</p>
3348
3349<p><code>Log</code> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.2-1 and works on
3350normalized pixel values. This a <var>scaled</var> log function. The <var>value</var> used with <code>Log</code> provides a <var>scaling
3351factor</var> that adjusts the curvature in the graph of the log function. The
3352formula applied to a normalized value <b><var>u</var></b> is below. </p>
3353
cristya1890f02015-05-15 23:32:44 +00003354<p class="text-center">
3355log(<var>value</var> × <b><var>u</var></b> + 1) / log(<var>value</var> + 1)
3356</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003357
3358<p><code>Pow</code> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.1-9, and works on
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003359normalized pixel values. Note that <code>Pow</code> is related to the <a href="command-line-options.html#gamma">-gamma</a> operator. For example, <b>-gamma 2</b> is equivalent
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003360to <b>-evaluate pow 0.5</b>, i.e., a 'square root' function. The value used
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003361with <a href="command-line-options.html#gamma">-gamma</a> is simply the reciprocal of the value used
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003362with <code>Pow</code>.</p>
3363
3364<p><code>Cosine</code> and <code>Sine</code> was added as of IM v6.4.8-8 and
3365converts the image values into a value according to a (co)sine wave function.
3366The synonyms <code>Cos</code> and <code>Sin</code> may also be used. The output
3367is biased 50% and normalized by 50% so as to fit in the respective color value
3368range. The <var>value</var> scaling of the <var>period</var> of the
3369function (its frequency), and thus determines the number of 'waves' that will
3370be generated over the input color range. For example, if the <var>value</var> is 1, the effective period is simply the <var>QuantumRange</var>; but if the <var>value</var> is 2,
3371then the effective period is the <var>half</var> the <var>QuantumRange</var>.</p>
3372
cristya1890f02015-05-15 23:32:44 +00003373<p class="text-center">
33740.5 + 0.5 × cos(2 π <b><var>u</var></b> × <var>value</var>).
3375</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003376
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003377<p>See also the <a href="command-line-options.html#function">-function</a> operator, which is a
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003378multi-value version of evaluate. </p>
3379
3380<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003381 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="evaluate-sequence"></a>-evaluate-sequence <var>operator</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003382</div>
3383
3384<p class="magick-description">Alter channel pixels by evaluating an arithmetic, relational, or
3385logical expression over a sequence of images.</p>
3386
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003387<p>To print a complete list of <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate-sequence">-evaluate-sequence</a> operators, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list evaluate</a>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003388
3389<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003390 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="extent"></a>-extent <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003391</div>
3392
3393<p class="magick-description">Set the image size and offset.</p>
3394
3395<p>If the image is enlarged, unfilled areas are set to the background color.
3396To position the image, use offsets in the <var>geometry</var>
3397specification or precede with a <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting. To
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003398specify how to compose the image with the background, use <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003399
3400<p>This command reduces or expands a JPEG image to fit on an 800x600
3401display. If the aspect ratio of the input image isn't exactly 4:3, then the
3402image is centered on an 800x600 black canvas: </p>
3403
3404<pre>
3405convert input.jpg -resize 800x600 -background black -compose Copy \
3406 -gravity center -extent 800x600 -quality 92 output.jpg
3407</pre>
3408
3409<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
3410
3411<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003412 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="extract"></a>-extract <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003413</div>
3414
3415<p class="magick-description">Extract the specified area from image.</p>
3416
3417<p>This option is most useful for extracting a subregion of a very large raw
3418image. Note that these two commands are equivalent:</p>
3419
3420<pre>
3421convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -extract 640x480+1280+960 \
3422 image.rgb image.png",
3423convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 'image.rgb[640x480+1280+960]' \
3424 image.rgb image.png"
3425</pre>
3426
3427<p>If you omit the offsets, as in</p>
3428
3429<pre>
3430convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -extract 640x480 \
3431 image.rgb image.png
3432</pre>
3433
3434<p>the image is <var>resized</var> to the specified dimensions instead,
3435equivalent to:</p>
3436
3437<pre>
3438convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -resize 640x480 image.rgb image.png
3439</pre>
3440
3441<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
3442
3443<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003444 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="family"></a>-family <var>fontFamily</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003445</div>
3446
3447<p class="magick-description">Set a font family for text.</p>
3448
3449<p>This setting suggests a font family that ImageMagick should try to use for
3450rendering text. If the family can be found it is used; if not, a default font
3451(e.g., "Arial") or a family known to be similar is substituted (e.g.,
3452"Courier" might be used if "System" is requested but not found). </p>
3453
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003454<p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="command-line-options.html#font">-font</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#stretch">-stretch</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#style">-style</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003455
3456<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003457 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="features"></a>-features <var>distance</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003458</div>
3459
3460<p class="magick-description">display (cooccurrence matrix) texture measure features for each channel in the image in each of four directions (horizontal, vertical, left and right diagonals) for the specified distance.</p>
3461
3462<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003463Angular Second Moment
3464Contrast
3465Correlation
3466Sum of Squares Variance
3467Inverse Difference Moment
3468Sum Average
3469Sum Variance
3470Sum Entropy
3471Entropy
3472Difference Variance
3473Difference Entropy
3474Information Measure of Correlation 1
3475Information Measure of Correlation 2
3476Maximum Correlation Coefficient
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003477</pre>
3478
3479
3480<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003481 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="fft"></a>-fft</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003482</div>
3483
3484<p class="magick-description">implements the forward discrete Fourier transform (DFT).</p>
3485
3486<p>This option is new as of ImageMagick 6.5.4-3 (and now working for Windows
3487users in ImageMagick 6.6.0-9). It transforms an image from the normal
3488(spatial) domain to the frequency domain. In the frequency domain, an image is
3489represented as a superposition of complex sinusoidal waves of varying
3490amplitudes. The image x and y coordinates are the possible frequencies along
3491the x and y directions, respectively, and the pixel intensity values are
3492complex numbers that correspond to the sinusoidal wave amplitudes. See for
3493example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform">Fourier
3494Transform</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT">Discrete Fourier
3495Transform</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFT">Fast Fourier
3496Transform</a>.</p>
3497
3498<p>A single image name is provided as output for this option. However, the
3499output result will have two components. It is either a two-frame image or two
3500separate images, depending upon whether the image format specified supports
3501multi-frame images. The reason that we get a dual output result is because the
3502frequency domain represents an image using complex numbers, which cannot be
3503visualized directly. Therefore, the complex values are automagically separated
3504into a two-component image representation. The first component is the
3505magnitude of the complex number and the second is the phase of the complex
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003506number. See for example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_numbers">Complex Numbers</a>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003507
3508<p>The magnitude and phase component images must be specified using image
3509formats that do not limit the color or compress the image. Thus, MIFF, TIF,
3510PFM, EXR and PNG are the recommended image formats to use. All of these
3511formats, except PNG support multi-frame images. So for example,</p>
3512
3513<pre>
3514convert image.png -fft fft_image.miff
3515</pre>
3516
3517<p>generates a magnitude image as <code>fft_image.miff[0]</code> and a phase
3518image as <code>fft_image.miff[1]</code>. Similarly,</p>
3519
3520<pre>
3521convert image.png -fft fft_image.png
3522</pre>
3523
3524<p>generates a magnitude image as <code>fft_image-0.png</code> and a phase image
3525as <code>fft_image-1.png</code>. If you prefer this representation, then you can
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003526force any of the other formats to produce two output images by including <a href="command-line-options.html#adjoin">+adjoin</a> following -fft in the command line.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003527
3528<p>The input image can be any size, but if not square and even-dimensioned, it
3529is padded automagically to the larger of the width or height of the input
3530image and to an even number of pixels. The padding will occur at the bottom
3531and/or right sides of the input image. The resulting output magnitude and
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003532phase images is square at this size. The kind of padding relies on the <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003533
3534<p>Both output components will have dynamic ranges that fit within
3535[0, <var>QuantumRange</var>], so that HDRI need not be enabled.
3536Phase values nominally range from 0 to 2*π, but is scaled to span the full
3537dynamic range. (The first few releases had non-HDRI scaled but HDRI not
3538scaled). The magnitude image is not scaled and thus generally will contain
3539very small values. As such, the image normally will appear totally black. In
3540order to view any detail, the magnitude image typically is enhanced with a log
3541function into what is usually called the spectrum. A log function is used to
3542enhance the darker values more in comparison to the lighter values. This can
3543be done, for example, as follows:</p>
3544
3545<pre>
3546convert fft_image.miff[0] -contrast-stretch 0 \
3547 -evaluate log 1000 fft_image_spectrum.png"
3548</pre>
3549
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003550<p>where either <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a> 0 or <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> is used to scale the image to full dynamic
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003551range, first. The argument to the <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> log
3552typically is specified between 100 and 10,000, depending upon the amount of
3553detail that one wants to bring out in the spectrum. Larger values produce more
3554visible detail. Too much detail, however, may hide the important features.</p>
3555
3556<p>The <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</a> delegate library is required to
3557use <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">-fft</a>.</p>
3558
3559<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">+fft</a> to produce two output images that are the real
3560and imaginary components of the complex valued Fourier transform.</p>
3561
3562<p>However, as the real and imaginary components can contain negative values,
3563this requires that IM be configured with HDRI enabled. In this case, you must
3564use either MIFF, TIF, PFM or MPC formats for the real and imaginary component
3565results, since they are formats that preserve both negative and fractional
3566values without clipping them or truncating the fractional part. With either
3567MIFF or TIF, one should add -define quantum:format=32, to allow those image
3568types to work properly in HDRI mode without clipping.</p>
3569
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003570<p>The real and imaginary component images resulting from <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">+fft</a> are also square, even dimensioned images due to the same
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003571padding that was discussed above for the magnitude and phase component
3572images.</p>
3573
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003574<p>See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page <a href="high-dynamic-range.html">High Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more
3575about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages, <a href="http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/fourier_transforms/fourier.html">Fred's Fourier Processing With ImageMagick page</a> or this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003576 entry. </p>
3577
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003578<p>By default the FFT is normalized (and the IFT is not). Use "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> fourier:normalize=forward</code> to explicityly normalize the FFT and unnormalize the IFT.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003579
3580
3581<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003582 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="fill"></a>-fill <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003583</div>
3584
3585<p class="magick-description">color to use when filling a graphic primitive.</p>
3586
3587<p>This option accepts a color name, a hex color, or a numerical RGB, RGBA,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003588HSL, HSLA, CMYK, or CMYKA specification. See <a href="color.html">Color Names</a> for
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003589a description of how to properly specify the color argument.</p>
3590
3591<p>Enclose the color specification in quotation marks to prevent the "#" or
3592the parentheses from being interpreted by your shell.</p>
3593
3594<p>For example,</p>
3595
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003596<pre>
3597-fill blue
3598-fill "#ddddff"
3599-fill "rgb(255,255,255)"
3600</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003601
3602<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
3603
3604<p>To print a complete list of color names, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list color</a> option.</p>
3605
3606<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003607 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="filter"></a>-filter <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003608</div>
3609
3610<p class="magick-description">Use this <var>type</var> of filter when resizing or distorting an image.</p>
3611
3612<p>Use this option to affect the resizing operation of an image during
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003613operations such as <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a>. For example you can use a simple resize filter such as:</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003614
3615<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003616Point Hermite Cubic
3617Box Gaussian Catrom
3618Triangle Quadratic Mitchell
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003619</pre>
3620
3621<p>The <code>Bessel</code> and <code>Sinc</code> filter is also provided (as well
3622as a faster <code>SincFast</code> equivalent form). However these filters are
3623generally useless on their own as they are infinite filters that are being
3624clipped to the filters support size. Their direct use is not recommended
3625except via expert settings (see below). </p>
3626
3627<p>Instead these special filter functions are typically windowed by a windowing
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003628function that the <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting defines. That is
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003629using these functions will define a 'Windowed' filter, appropriate to the
3630operator involved. Windowed filters include: </p>
3631
3632<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003633Lanczos Hamming Parzen
3634Blackman Kaiser Welsh
3635Hanning Bartlett Bohman
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003636</pre>
3637
3638<p>Also one special self-windowing filter is also provided
3639<code>Lagrange</code>, which will automagically re-adjust its function depending
3640on the current 'support' or 'lobes' expert settings (see below).</p>
3641
3642<p>If you do not select a filter with this option, the filter defaults to
3643<code>Mitchell</code> for a colormapped image, an image with a matte channel, or
3644if the image is enlarged. Otherwise the filter default to
3645<code>Lanczos</code>.</p>
3646
3647<p>To print a complete list of resize filters, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
3648filter</a> option.</p>
3649
3650<p>You can modify how the filter behaves as it scales your image through the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003651use of these expert settings (see also <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a>):-</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003652
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003653<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
3654 <tr>
3655 <td>-define filter:blur=<var>factor</var></td>
3656 <td>Scale the X axis of the filter (and its window). Use &gt; 1.0 for
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003657 blurry or &lt; 1.0 for sharp. This should only be used with Gaussian and
3658 Gaussian-like filters simple filters, or you may not get the expected
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003659 results. </td>
3660 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003661
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003662 <tr>
3663 <td>-define filter:support=<var>radius</var></td>
3664 <td>Set the filter support radius. Defines how large the filter should be and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003665 thus directly defines how slow the filtered resampling process is. All
3666 filters have a default 'prefered' support size. Some filters like
3667 <code>Lagrange</code> and windowed filters adjust themselves depending on
3668 this value. With simple filters this value either does nothing (but slow
3669 the resampling), or will clip the filter function in a detrimental way.
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003670 </td>
3671 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003672
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003673 <tr>
3674 <td>-define filter:lobes=<var>count</var></td>
3675 <td>Set the number of lobes to use for the Sinc/Bessel filter. This an
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003676 alternative way of specifying the 'support' range of the filter, that is
3677 designed to be more suited to windowed filters, especially when used for
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003678 image distorts.</td>
3679 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003680
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003681 <tr>
3682 <td>-define filter:sigma=<var>value</var></td>
3683 <td>The 'sigma' value used to define the <code>Gaussian</code> filter. Default
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003684 sigma value is '<code>0.5</code>'. It only effects <code>Gaussian</code> but
3685 does not shrink (but may enlarge) the filter's 'support'. It can be used
3686 to generate very small blurs but without the filter 'missing' pixels due
3687 to using a small support setting. A larger value of '<code>0.707</code>'
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003688 (a value of '1/sqrt(2)') is another common setting. </td>
3689 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003690
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003691 <tr>
3692 <td>-define filter:b=<var>b-spline_factor</var></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003693 </tr><tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003694 <td>-define filter:c=<var>keys_alpha_factor</var></td>
3695 <td>Redefine the values used for cubic filters such as <code>Cubic</code>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003696 <code>Catrom</code>, <code>Mitchel</code>, and <code>Hermite</code>, as well as
3697 the <code>Parzen</code> cubic windowing function. If only one of the values
3698 are defined, the other is set so as to generate a 'Cubic-Keys' filter.
3699 The values meaning was defined by a research paper by
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003700 Mitchell-Netravali.</td>
3701 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003702
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003703 <tr>
3704 <td>-define filter:kaiser-beta=<var>value</var></td>
3705 <td>The 'alpha' value used to as part of the Kaiser Windowing function.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003706 Default value is '6.5'. It only effects Kaiser windowing function, and
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003707 does not effect any other attributes.
3708 Before ImageMagick v6.7.6-10, this option was known as "filter:alpha", (an
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003709 inheritance from the very old "zoom" program). It was changed to bring the
3710 function in line with more modern academic research usage, and better
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003711 assign it be more definitive. </td>
3712 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003713
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003714 <tr>
3715 <td>-define filter:kaiser-alpha=<var>value</var></td>
3716 <td>This value when multiplied by 'PI' is equivalent to "kaiser-beta", and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003717 will override that setting. It only effects Kaiser windowing function,
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003718 and does not effect any other attributes. </td>
3719 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003720
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003721 <tr>
3722 <td>-define filter:filter=<var>filter_function</var></td>
3723 <td>Use this function directly as the weighting filter. This will allow
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003724 you to directly use a windowing function such as <code>Blackman</code>,
3725 as a resampling filter, rather than as its normal usage as a windowing
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003726 function. If defined, no windowing function also defined, the window function is set
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003727 to <code>Box</code>). Directly specifying <code>Sinc</code> or <code>Jinc</code>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003728 as a filter will also do this. </td>
3729 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003730
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003731 <tr>
3732 <td>-define filter:window=<var>filter_function</var></td>
3733 <td>The IIR (infinite impulse response) filters <code>Sinc</code> and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003734 <code>Jinc</code> are windowed (brought down to zero over the defined
3735 support range) with the given filter. This allows you to specify a filter
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003736 function to be used as a windowing function for these IIR filters.
3737 Many of the defined filters are actually windowing functions for these IIR
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003738 filters. A typical choices is <code>Box</code>, (which effectively turns
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003739 off the windowing function). </td>
3740 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003741
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003742 <tr>
3743 <td>-define filter:win-support=<var>radius</var></td>
3744 <td>Scale windowing function to this size instead. This causes the windowing
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003745 (or self-windowing Lagrange filter) to act is if the support window is
3746 larger than what is actually supplied to the calling operator. The filter
3747 however is still clipped to the real support size given. If unset this
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003748 will equal the normal filter support size. </td>
3749 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003750
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003751 <tr>
3752 <td>-define filter:verbose=<var>1</var></td>
3753 <td>This causes IM to print information on the final internal filter
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003754 selection to standard output. This includes a commented header on the
3755 filter settings being used, and data allowing the filter weights to be
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003756 easily graphed. Note however that some filters are internally defined in terms of other filters. The <code>Lanczos</code> filter for example is defined in terms of
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003757 a <code>SincFast</code> windowed <code>SincFast</code> filter, while
3758 <code>Mitchell</code> is defined as a general <code>Cubic</code> family filter
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003759 with specific 'B' and 'C' settings. </td>
3760 </tr>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003761
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003762</table>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003763
3764<p>For example, to get a 8 lobe jinc windowed sinc filter (Genseng filter?):</p>
3765
3766<pre>
3767convert image.png \
3768 -filter sinc \
3769 -set filter:window=jinc \
3770 -set filter:lobes=8 \
3771 -resize 150% image.jpg"
3772</pre>
3773
3774<p>Or a raw un-windowed Sinc filter with 4 lobes:</p>
3775
3776<pre>
3777convert image.png \
3778 -set filter:filter=sinc \
3779 -set filter:lobes=4 \
3780 -resize 150% image.jpg"
3781</pre>
3782
3783<p>To extract the data for a raw windowing function, combine it with
3784a '<code>Box</code>' filter. For example the '<code>Welch</code> parabolic
3785windowing function. </p>
3786
3787<pre>
3788convert null: -define filter:filter=Box \
3789 -define filter:window=Welch \
3790 -define filter:support=1.0 \
3791 -define filter:verbose=1 \
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003792 -resize 2 null: &gt; window_welch.dat
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003793gnuplot
3794 set grid
3795 plot \"window_welch.dat\" with lines
3796</pre>
3797
3798<p>Note that the use of expert options is provided for image processing experts
3799who have studied and understand how resize filters work. Without this
3800knowledge, and an understanding of the definition of the actual filters
3801involved, using expert settings are more likely to be detrimental to your image
3802resizing.</p>
3803
3804
3805<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003806 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="flatten"></a>-flatten</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003807</div>
3808
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003809<p class="magick-description">This is a simple alias for the <a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a> method "flatten".</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003810
3811
3812<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003813 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="flip"></a>-flip</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003814</div>
3815
3816<p class="magick-description">create a <var>mirror image</var></p>
3817
3818<p>reflect the scanlines in the vertical direction. The image will be mirrored
3819upside-down. </p>
3820
3821
3822<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003823 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="floodfill"></a>-floodfill {<var>+-</var>}<var>x</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>y</var> <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003824</div>
3825
3826<p class="magick-description">floodfill the image with color at the specified offset.</p>
3827
3828<p>Flood fill starts from the given 'seed point' which is not gravity effected.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003829Any color that matches within <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> color distance of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003830given <var>color</var> argument, connected to that 'seed point'
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003831will be replaced with the current <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> color. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003832
3833<p>Note that if the pixel at the 'seed point' does not itself match the given
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003834<var>color</var> (according to <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a>), then no
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003835action will be taken. </p>
3836
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003837<p>This operator works more like the <a href="command-line-options.html#opaque">-opaque</a> option, than
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003838a more general flood fill that reads the matching color directly at the 'seed
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003839point'. For this form of flood fill, look at <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003840its 'color floodfill' drawing method. </p>
3841
3842
3843<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003844 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="flop"></a>-flop</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003845</div>
3846
3847<p class="magick-description">create a <var>mirror image</var>.</p>
3848
3849<p>Reflect the scanlines in the horizontal direction, just like the image in
3850a vertical mirror. </p>
3851
3852
3853<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003854 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="font"></a>-font <var>name</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003855</div>
3856
3857<p class="magick-description">set the font to use when annotating images with text, or creating labels.</p>
3858
3859<p>To print a complete list of fonts, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list font</a>
3860option (for versions prior to 6.3.6, use 'type' instead of 'font').</p>
3861
3862<p>In addition to the fonts specified by the above pre-defined list, you can
3863also specify a font from a specific source. For example <code>Arial.ttf</code>
3864is a TrueType font file, <code>ps:helvetica</code> is PostScript font, and
3865<code>x:fixed</code> is X11 font.</p>
3866
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003867<p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="command-line-options.html#family">-family</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#stretch">-stretch</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#style">-style</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003868
3869
3870<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003871 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="foreground"></a>-foreground <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003872</div>
3873
3874<p class="magick-description">Define the foreground color for menus.", "display</p>
3875
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003876<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003877
3878<p>The default foreground color is black.</p>
3879
3880<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003881 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="format"></a>-format <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003882</div>
3883
3884<p class="magick-description">the image format type.</p>
3885
3886<p>When used with the <code>mogrify</code> utility, this option converts any
3887image to the image <a href="formats.html">format</a> you specify.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003888For a list of image format types supported by ImageMagick, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list format</a>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003889
3890<p>By default the file is written to its original name. However, if the
3891filename extension matches a supported format, the extension is replaced with
3892the image format type specified with <a href="command-line-options.html#format">-format</a>. For
3893example, if you specify <var>tiff</var> as the format type and the
3894input image filename is <var>image.gif</var>, the output image
3895filename becomes <var>image.tiff</var>.</p>
3896
3897<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003898 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="format_identify_"></a>-format <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003899</div>
3900
3901<p class="magick-description">output formatted image characteristics.</p>
3902
3903<p>See <a href="escape.html">Format and Print Image
3904Properties</a> for an explanation on how to specify the argument to this
3905option.</p>
3906
3907<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003908 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="frame"></a>-frame <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003909</div>
3910
3911<p class="magick-description">Surround the image with a border or beveled frame.</p>
3912
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003913<p>The color of the border is specified with the <a href="command-line-options.html#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a> command line option. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003914
3915<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <var>size</var> portion of the <var>geometry</var> argument indicates the amount of extra width and
3916height that is added to the dimensions of the image. If no offsets are given
3917in the <var>geometry</var> argument, then the border added is
3918a solid color. Offsets <var>x</var> and <var>y</var>, if present, specify that
3919the width and height of the border is partitioned to form an outer bevel of
3920thickness <var>x</var> pixels and an inner bevel of thickness
3921<var>y</var> pixels. Negative offsets make no sense as frame arguments.
3922</p>
3923
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003924<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#frame">-frame</a> option is affected by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> setting and assumes that this is using the default
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003925'<code>Over</code>' composition method. It generates an image of the appropriate
3926size with the current <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting, and then
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003927draws the frame of four distinct colors close to the current <a href="command-line-options.html#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a>. The original image is then overlaid onto
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003928center of this image. This means that with the default compose method of
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003929'<code>Over</code>' any transparent parts may be replaced by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003930
3931<p>The image composition is not
3932affected by the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option.</p>
3933
3934
3935<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003936 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="frame_import_"></a>-frame</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003937</div>
3938
3939<p class="magick-description">include the X window frame in the imported image. </p>
3940<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003941 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="function"></a>-function <var>function</var> <var>parameters</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003942</div>
3943
3944<p class="magick-description">Apply a function to channel values.</p>
3945
3946<p>This operator performs calculations based on the given arguments to modify
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003947each of the color values for each previously set <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> in the image. See <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> for details concerning how the results of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003948calculations are handled.</p>
3949
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003950<p>This is can be considered a multi-argument version of the <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator. (Added in
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003951ImageMagick 6.4.8−8.)</p>
3952
3953<p>Here, <var>parameters</var> is a comma-separated list of
3954numerical values. The number of values varies depending on which <var>function</var> is selected. Choose the <var>function</var> from:</p>
3955
3956<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003957Polynomial
3958Sinusoid
3959Arcsin
3960Arctan
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003961</pre>
3962
3963<p>To print a complete list of <a href="command-line-options.html#function">-function</a> operators,
3964use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list function</a>. Descriptions follow.</p>
3965
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003966<dl class="dl-horizontal">
3967 <dt>Polynomial</dt>
3968 <dd><p>The <code>Polynomial</code> function takes an arbitrary number of parameters,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003969these being the coefficients of a polynomial, in decreasing order of degree.
3970That is, entering</p>
3971
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003972<pre>
3973-function Polynomial <var>a</var><sub><var>n</var></sub>,<var>a</var><sub><var>n</var>-1</sub>,...<var>a</var><sub>1</sub>,<var>a</var><sub>0</sub>
3974</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003975
3976<p>will invoke a polynomial function given by</p>
3977
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00003978<pre>
3979<var>a</var><sub><var>n</var></sub> <b><var>u</var></b><sup><var>n</var></sup> + <var>a</var><sub><var>n</var>-1</sub> <b><var>u</var></b><sup><var>n</var>-1</sup> + ··· <var>a</var><sub>1</sub> <b><var>u</var></b> + <var>a</var><sub>0</sub>,
3980</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003981
3982<p>where <b><var>u</var></b> is pixel's original normalized channel value.</p>
3983
3984<p>The <code>Polynomial</code> function can be used in place of <code>Set</code>
3985(the <var>constant</var> polynomial) and <code>Add</code>, <code>Divide</code>,
3986<code>Multiply</code>, and <code>Subtract</code> (some <var>linear</var>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00003987polynomials) of the <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator. The <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> operator also affects channels linearly. Some
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003988correspondences follow.</p>
3989
3990<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00003991 <tr>
3992 <td>-evaluate Set <var>value</var> </td>
3993 <td>-function Polynomial <var>value</var></td>
3994 <td>(Constant functions; set <var>value</var>×100% gray when channels are RGB.)</td>
3995 </tr>
3996 <tr>
3997 <td>-evaluate Add <var>value</var> </td>
3998 <td>-function Polynomial 1,<var>value</var></td>
3999 </tr>
4000 <tr>
4001 <td>-evaluate Subtract <var>value</var> </td>
4002 <td>-function Polynomial 1,−<var>value</var></td>
4003 </tr>
4004 <tr>
4005 <td>-evaluate Multiply <var>value</var> </td>
4006 <td>-function Polynomial <var>value</var>,0</td>
4007 </tr>
4008 <tr>
4009 <td>+level black% x white%</td>
4010 <td>-function Polynomial A,B</td>
4011 <td>(Reduce contrast. Here, A=(white-black)/100 and B=black/100.)</td>
4012 </tr>
4013</table>
4014
4015<p>The <code>Polynomial</code> function gives great versatility, since
4016polynomials can be used to fit any continuous curve to any degree of accuracy
4017desired.</p>
4018
4019</dd>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004020<dt>Sinusoid</dt>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004021<dd>
4022<p>The <code>Sinusoid</code> function can be used to vary the channel values
4023sinusoidally by setting frequency, phase shift, amplitude, and a bias. These
4024values are given as one to four parameters, as follows,</p>
4025
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004026<pre>
4027-function <code>Sinusoid</code> <var>freq</var>,[<var>phase</var>,[<var>amp</var>,[<var>bias</var>]]]
4028</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004029
4030<p>where <var>phase</var> is in degrees. (The domain [0,1] of the function
4031corresponds to 0 through <var>freq</var>×360 degrees.)
4032The result is that if a pixel's normalized channel value is originally
4033<b><var>u</var></b>, its resulting normalized value is given by </p>
4034
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004035<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004036<var>amp</var> * sin(2*π* (<var>freq</var> * <b><var>u</var></b> + <var>phase</var> / 360)) + <var>bias</var>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004037</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004038
4039<p> For example, the following generates a curve that starts and ends at 0.9
4040(when <b><var>u</var></b>=0 and 1, resp.), oscillating three times between
4041.7−.2=.5 and .7+.2=.9. </p>
4042
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004043<pre>
4044-function Sinusoid 3,-90,.2,.7
4045</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004046
4047<p>The default values of <var>amp</var> and <var>bias</var> are both .5. The default for <var>phase</var>
4048is 0.</p>
4049
4050<p>The <code>Sinusoid</code> function generalizes <code>Sin</code> and
4051<code>Cos</code> of the <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator by allowing
4052varying amplitude, phase and bias. The correspondence is as follows.</p>
4053
4054<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
4055 <tr>
4056 <td>-evaluate Sin <var>freq</var> </td>
4057 <td>-function Sinusoid <var>freq</var>,0 </td>
4058 </tr>
4059 <tr>
4060 <td>-evaluate Cos <var>freq</var> </td>
4061 <td>-function Sinusoid <var>freq</var>,90 </td>
4062 </tr>
4063</table>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004064 </dd>
4065<dt>ArcSin</dt>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004066<dd>
4067<p>The <code>ArcSin</code> function generates the inverse curve of a Sinusoid,
4068and can be used to generate cylindrical distortion and displacement maps.
4069The curve can be adjusted relative to both the input values and output range
4070of values.</p>
4071
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004072<pre>
4073-function <code>ArcSin</code> <var>width</var>,[<var>center</var>,[<var>range</var>,[<var>bias</var>]]]
4074</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004075
4076<p>with all values given in terms of normalized color values (0.0 for black,
40771.0 for white). Defaulting to values covering the full range from 0.0 to 1.0
4078for bout input (<var>width</var>), and output (<var>width</var>) values. '<code>1.0,0.5,1.0,0.5</code>' </p>
4079
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004080<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004081<var>range</var>/π * asin( 2/<var>width</var> * ( <b><var>u</var></b> - <var>center</var> ) ) + <var>bias</var>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004082</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004083
4084</dd>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004085<dt>ArcTan</dt>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004086<dd>
4087<p>The <code>ArcTan</code> function generates a curve that smooth crosses from
4088limit values at infinities, though a center using the given slope value.
4089All these values can be adjusted via the arguments.</p>
4090
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004091<pre>
4092-function <code>ArcTan</code> <var>slope</var>,[<var>center</var>,[<var>range</var>,[<var>bias</var>]]]
4093</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004094
4095<p>Defaulting to '<code>1.0,0.5,1.0,0.5</code>'.
4096</p>
4097
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004098<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004099<var>range</var>/π * atan( <var>slope</var>*π * ( <b><var>u</var></b> - <var>center</var> ) ) + <var>bias</var>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004100</pre>
4101 </dd>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004102
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004103</dl>
4104
4105
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004106
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004107<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004108 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="fuzz"></a>-fuzz <var>distance</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004109</div>
4110
4111<p class="magick-description">Colors within this <var>distance</var> are considered equal.</p>
4112
4113<p>A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must
4114be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color
4115in RGB space. For example, if you want to automagically trim the edges of an
4116image with <a href="command-line-options.html#trim">-trim</a> but the image was scanned and the target
4117background color may differ by a small amount. This option can account for
4118these differences.</p>
4119
4120<p>The <var>distance</var> can be in absolute intensity units or, by
4121appending <code>%</code> as a percentage of the maximum possible intensity (255,
412265535, or 4294967295).</p>
4123
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004124<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">+fuzz</a> to reset the fuzz value to 0.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004125
4126
4127<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004128 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="fx"></a>-fx <var>expression</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004129</div>
4130
4131<p class="magick-description">apply a mathematical expression to an image or image channels.</p>
4132
4133<p>If the first character of <var>expression</var> is <code>@</code>,
4134the expression is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the
4135string.</p>
4136
4137<p>See <a href="fx.html">FX,
4138The Special Effects Image Operator</a> for a detailed discussion of this
4139option.</p>
4140
4141
4142<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004143 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="gamma"></a>-gamma <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004144</div>
4145
4146<p class="magick-description">level of gamma correction.</p>
4147
4148<p>The same color image displayed on two different workstations may look
4149different due to differences in the display monitor. Use gamma correction to
4150adjust for this color difference. Reasonable values extend from
4151<code>0.8</code> to <code>2.3</code>. Gamma less than 1.0 darkens the image and
4152gamma greater than 1.0 lightens it. Large adjustments to image gamma may
4153result in the loss of some image information if the pixel quantum size is only
4154eight bits (quantum range 0 to 255).</p>
4155
4156<p>Gamma adjusts the image's channel values pixel-by-pixel according to
4157a power law, namely, pow(pixel,1/gamma) or pixel^(1/gamma), where pixel is the
4158normalized or 0 to 1 color value. For example, using a value of gamma=2 is the
4159same as taking the square root of the image.</p>
4160
4161<p>You can apply separate gamma values to the red, green, and blue channels of
4162the image with a gamma value list delimited with commas (e.g.,
4163<code>1.7,2.3,1.2</code>).</p>
4164
4165<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#gamma">+gamma <var>value</var></a> to set the
4166image gamma level without actually adjusting the image pixels. This option
4167is useful if the image is of a known gamma but not set as an image attribute
4168(e.g. PNG images). Write the "file gamma" which is the reciprocal of the
4169display gamma; e.g., if your image is sRGB and you want to write a PNG gAMA
4170chunk, use</p>
4171
4172<pre>
4173convert input.png +gamma .45455 output.png
4174</pre>
4175
4176<p>(0.45455 is 1/2.2)</p>
4177
4178<p>Note that gamma adjustments are also available via the <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> operator.</p>
4179
4180<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004181 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="gaussian-blur"></a>-gaussian-blur <var>radius</var><br>-gaussian-blur <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004182</div>
4183
4184<p class="magick-description">Blur the image with a Gaussian operator.</p>
4185
4186<p>Convolve the image with a Gaussian or normal distribution using the given
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004187<var>Sigma</var> value. The formula is:</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004188
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004189<div class="eqn"><img alt="gaussian distribution" width="243px" height="42px" src="../images/gaussian-blur.png">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004190</div>
4191
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004192<p>The <var>Sigma</var> value is the important argument, and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004193determines the actual amount of blurring that will take place. </p>
4194
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004195<p>The <var>Radius</var> is only used to determine the size of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004196array which will hold the calculated Gaussian distribution. It should be an
4197integer. If not given, or set to zero, IM will calculate the largest possible
4198radius that will provide meaningful results for the Gaussian distribution.
4199</p>
4200
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004201<p>The larger the <var>Radius</var> the radius the slower the
4202operation is. However too small a <var>Radius</var>, and sever
4203aliasing effects may result. As a guideline, <var>Radius</var>
4204should be at least twice the <var>Sigma</var> value, though three
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004205times will produce a more accurate result. </p>
4206
4207<p>This differs from the faster <a href="command-line-options.html#blur">-blur</a> operator in that a
4208full 2-dimensional convolution is used to generate the weighted average of the
4209neighboring pixels. </p>
4210
4211<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
4212pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
4213</p>
4214
4215
4216<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004217 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="geometry"></a>-geometry <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004218</div>
4219
4220<p class="magick-description">Set the preferred size and location of the image.</p>
4221
4222<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
4223
4224<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004225 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="gravity"></a>-gravity <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004226</div>
4227
4228<p class="magick-description">Sets the current gravity suggestion for various other settings and options.</p>
4229
4230<p>Choices include: <code>NorthWest</code>, <code>North</code>,
4231<code>NorthEast</code>, <code>West</code>, <code>Center</code>, <code>East</code>,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004232<code>SouthWest</code>, <code>South</code>, <code>SouthEast</code>. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list gravity</a> to get a complete list of <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> settings available in your ImageMagick
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004233installation.</p>
4234
4235<p>The direction you choose specifies where to position text or subimages. For
4236example, a gravity of <code>Center</code> forces the text to be centered within
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004237the image. By default, the image gravity is <code>NorthWest</code>. See <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> for more details about graphic primitives. Only the
4238text primitive of <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> is affected by the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004239
4240<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option is also used in concert with the
4241<a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a> setting and other settings or options that
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004242take <var>geometry</var> as an argument, such as the <a href="command-line-options.html#crop">-crop</a> option. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004243
4244<p>If a <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting occurs before another option
4245or setting having a <var>geometry</var> argument that specifies an
4246offset, the offset is usually applied to the point within the image suggested
4247by the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> argument. Thus, in the following
4248command, for example, suppose the file <code>image.png</code> has dimensions
4249200x100. The offset specified by the argument to <a href="command-line-options.html#region">-region</a>
4250is (−40,+20). The argument to <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> is
4251<code>Center</code>, which suggests the midpoint of the image, at the point
4252(100,50). The offset (−40,20) is applied to that point, giving
4253(100−40,50+20)=(60,70), so the specified 10x10 region is located at
4254that point. (In addition, the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> affects the
4255region itself, which is <var>centered</var> at the pixel
4256coordinate (60,70). (See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.)</p>
4257
4258<pre>
4259convert image.png -gravity Center -region 10x10-40+20 \
4260 -negate output.png
4261</pre>
4262
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004263<p>When used as an option to <a href="composite.html">composite</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> gives the direction that the image gravitates
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004264within the composite.</p>
4265
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004266<p>When used as an option to <a href="montage.html">montage</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> gives the direction that an image gravitates
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004267within a tile. The default gravity is <code>Center</code> for this purpose.</p>
4268
4269
4270<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004271 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="grayscale"></a>-grayscale <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004272</div>
4273
4274<p class="magick-description">convert image to grayscale.</p>
4275
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004276<p>This will use one of the <a href="command-line-options.html#intensity">-intensity</a> methods to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004277convert the given image into a linear-grayscale image. </p>
4278
4279<p>For example, to convert an image to (linear) Rec709Luminance grayscale, type:</p>
4280
4281<pre>
4282convert in.png -grayscale Rec709Luminance out.png
4283</pre>
4284
4285<p>which is equivalent to:</p>
4286
4287<pre>
4288convert in.png -colorspace gray out.png
4289</pre>
4290
4291<p>Similarly, to convert an image to (non-linear) Rec709Luma grayscale, type:</p>
4292
4293<pre>
4294convert in.png -grayscale Rec709Luma out.png
4295</pre>
4296
4297<p>which is equivalent to:</p>
4298
4299<pre>
4300convert in.png -set colorspace RGB -colorspace gray out.png
4301</pre>
4302
4303<p>Note that a 'colorspace' intensity method will produce the same result
4304regardless of the current colorpsace of the image. But a 'mathematical'
4305intensity method will depend on the current colorspace the image is currently
4306using. </p>
4307
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004308<p>While this operation uses an <a href="command-line-options.html#intensity">-intensity</a> method,
4309it does not use or set the <a href="command-line-options.html#intensity">-intensity</a> setting, so
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004310will not effect other operations that may use that setting.</p>
4311
4312
4313<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004314 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="green-primary"></a>-green-primary <var>x,y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004315</div>
4316
4317<p class="magick-description">green chromaticity primary point.</p>
4318
4319
4320<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004321 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="hald-clut"></a>-hald-clut</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004322</div>
4323
4324<p class="magick-description">apply a Hald color lookup table to the image.</p>
4325
4326<p>A Hald color lookup table is a 3-dimensional color cube mapped to 2
4327dimensions. Create it with the <code>HALD:</code> prefix (e.g. HALD:8). You
4328can apply any color transformation to the Hald image and then use this option
4329to apply the transform to the image. </p>
4330
4331<pre>
4332convert image.png hald.png -hald-clut transform.png
4333</pre>
4334
4335<p>This option provides a convenient method for you to use Gimp or Photoshop
4336to make color corrections to the Hald CLUT image and subsequently apply them
4337to multiple images using an ImageMagick script. </p>
4338
4339<p>Note that the representation is only of the normal RGB color space and that
4340the whole color value triplet is used for the interpolated lookup of the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004341represented Hald color cube image. Because of this the operation is not <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> setting effected, nor can it adjust or modify an
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004342images transparency or alpha/matte channel.</p>
4343
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004344<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#clut">-clut</a> which provides color value replacement
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004345of the individual color channels, usually involving a simpler gray-scale
4346image. E.g: gray-scale to color replacement, or modification by a histogram
4347mapping. </p>
4348
4349
4350<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004351 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="help"></a>-help</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004352</div>
4353
4354<p class="magick-description">print usage instructions.</p>
4355
4356<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004357 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="highlight-color"></a>-highlight-color <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004358</div>
4359
4360<p class="magick-description">when comparing images, emphasize pixel differences with this color.</p>
4361
4362<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004363 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="hough-lines"></a>-hough-lines <var>width</var>x<var>height</var>{<var>+threshold</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004364</div>
4365
4366<p class="magick-description">identify straight lines in the image (e.g. -hough-lines 9x9+195).</p>
4367
4368<p>Use the Hough line detector with any binary edge extracted image to locate and draw any straight lines that it finds.</p>
4369
4370<p>The process accumulates counts for every white pixel in the binary edge image for every possible orientation (for angles from 0 to 179 in 1 deg increments) and distance from the center of the image to the corners (in 1 px increments). It stores the counts in an accumulator matrix of angle vs distance. The size of the accumulator will be 180x(diagonal/2). Next it searches the accumulator for peaks in counts and converts the locations of the peaks to slope and intercept in the normal x,y input image space. The algorithm uses slope/intercepts to find the endpoints clipped to the bounds of the image. The lines are drawn from the given endpoints. The counts are a measure of the length of the lines.</p>.
4371
4372<p>The WxH arguments specify the filter size for locating the peaks in the Hough accumulator. The threshold excludes lines whose counts are less than the threshold value.</p>
4373
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004374<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#background">-background</a></code> to specify the color of the background onto which the lines will be drawn. The default is black.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004375
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004376<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a></code> to specify the color of the lines. The default is black.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004377
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004378<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#stroke">-stroke</a></code> and <code><a href="command-line-options.html#strokewidth">-strokewidth</a></code> to specify the thickness of the lines. The default is black and no strokewidth.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004379
4380<p>A text file listing the endpoints and counts may be created by using the suffix, .mvg, for the output image.</p>
4381
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004382<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> hough-lines:accumulator=true</code> to return the accumulator image in addition to the lines image.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004383
4384<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004385 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="iconGeometry"></a>-iconGeometry <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004386</div>
4387
4388<p class="magick-description">specify the icon geometry.</p>
4389
4390<p>Offsets, if present in the geometry specification, are handled in the same
4391manner as the <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a> option, using X11 style to
4392handle negative offsets.</p>
4393
4394<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
4395
4396<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004397 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="iconic"></a>-iconic</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004398</div>
4399
4400<p class="magick-description">start in icon mode in X Windows", 'animate', 'display</p>
4401
4402<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004403 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="identify"></a>-identify</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004404</div>
4405
4406<p class="magick-description">identify the format and characteristics of the image.</p>
4407
4408<p>This information is printed: image scene number; image name; image size;
4409the image class (<var>DirectClass</var> or <var>PseudoClass</var>); the total number of unique colors; and the
4410number of seconds to read and transform the image. Refer to <a href="miff.html">MIFF</a> for
4411a description of the image class.</p>
4412
4413<p>If <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a> is also specified, the total unique colors
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004414in the image and color reduction error values are printed. Refer to <a href="quantize.html">color
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004415reduction algorithm</a> for a description of these values.</p>
4416
4417<p>If <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> precedes this option, copious
4418amounts of image properties are displayed including image statistics, profiles,
4419image histogram, and others.</p>
4420
4421<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004422 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="ift"></a>-ift</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004423</div>
4424
4425<p class="magick-description">implements the inverse discrete Fourier transform (DFT).</p>
4426
4427<p>This option is new as of ImageMagick 6.5.4-3 (and now working for Windows
4428users in ImageMagick 6.6.0-9). It transforms a pair of magnitude and phase
4429images from the frequency domain to a single image in the normal or spatial
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004430domain. See for example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform">Fourier Transform</a>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004431<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT">Discrete Fourier Transform</a> and
4432<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFT">Fast Fourier Transform</a>.</p>
4433
4434<p>For example, depending upon the image format used to store the result of
4435the <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">-fft</a>, one would use either</p>
4436
4437<pre>
4438convert fft_image.miff -ift fft_image_ift.png
4439</pre>
4440
4441<p>or</p>
4442
4443<pre>
4444convert fft_image-0.png fft_image-1.png -ift fft_image_ift.png
4445</pre>
4446
4447<p>The resulting image may need to be cropped due to padding introduced when
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004448the original image, prior to the <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">-fft</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#fft">+fft</a>, was not square or even dimensioned. Any padding is at
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004449the right and/or bottom sides of the image.</p>
4450
4451<p>The <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</a> delegate library is required to
4452use <a href="command-line-options.html#ift">-ift</a>.</p>
4453
4454<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#ift">+ift</a> (with HDRI enabled) to transform a pair of real
4455and imaginary images from the frequency domain to a single image in the normal
4456(spatial) domain.</p>
4457
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004458<p>By default the IFT is not normalized (and the FFT is). Use "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> fourier:normalize=inverse</code> to explictly normalize the IFT and unnormalize the FFT.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004459
4460<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004461 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="immutable"></a>-immutable</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004462</div>
4463
4464<p class="magick-description">make image immutable.</p>
4465
4466<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004467 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="implode"></a>-implode <var>factor</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004468</div>
4469
4470<p class="magick-description">implode image pixels about the center.</p>
4471
4472<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004473 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="insert"></a>-insert <var>index</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004474</div>
4475
4476<p class="magick-description">insert the last image into the image sequence.</p>
4477
4478<p>This option takes last image in the current image sequence and inserts it
4479at the given index. If a negative index is used, the insert position is
4480calculated before the last image is removed from the sequence. As such
4481<code>-insert -1</code> will result in no change to the image sequence.</p>
4482
4483<p>The <code>+insert</code> option is equivalent to <code>-insert -1</code>. In
4484other words, insert the last image, at the end of the current image sequence.
4485Consequently this has no effect on the image sequence order.</p>
4486
4487<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004488 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="intensity"></a>-intensity <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004489</div>
4490
4491<p class="magick-description">method to generate intensity value from pixel.</p>
4492
4493<p>ImageMagick provides a number of methods used in situations where an
4494operatory needs to determine a single grayscale value for some purpose, from
4495an image with red, green, and blue pixel components. Typically the linear
4496<code>Rec709Luminance</code> formula is used, which is the same formula used when
4497converting images to <code>-colorspace gray</code>. </p>
4498
4499<p>The following formulas are currently provided, and will first convert
4500the pixel values to linear-RGB or non-linear sRGB colorspace before
4501being applied to calulate the final greyscale value. </p>
4502
4503<pre>
4504 Rec601Luma 0.298839R' + 0.586811G'+ 0.114350B'
4505 Rec601Luminance 0.298839R + 0.586811G + 0.114350B
4506 Rec709Luma 0.212656R' + 0.715158G' + 0.072186B'
4507 Rec709Luminance 0.212656R + 0.715158G + 0.072186B
4508 Brightness max(R', G', B')
4509 Lightness (min(R', G', B') + max(R', G', B')) / 2.0
4510</pre>
4511<p>Note that the above R,G,B values is the image's linear-RGB values, while
4512R',G',B' are sRGB non-linear values. </p>
4513
4514<p>These intensity methods are mathematical in nature and will use the
4515current value in the images respective R,G,B channel regardless of
4516what that is, or what colorspace the image is currently using.</p>
4517
4518<pre>
4519 Average (R + G + B) / 3.0
4520 MS (R^2 + G^2 + B^2) / 3.0
4521 RMS sqrt( (R^2 + G^2 + B^2) / 3.0 )
4522</pre>
4523
4524<p>These methods are often used for other purposes, such as generating a
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004525grayscale difference image between two color images (using <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> '<code>Difference</code>' composition. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004526
4527<p> For example The 'MS' (Mean Squared) setting is good for minimizing color
4528error comparisions. While... The method 'RMS' (Root Mean Squared) for
4529example is appropriate for calculating color vector distance, from a color
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004530difference image. This is equivalent to the color only component of the <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> factor color compare setting. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004531
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004532<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#grayscale">-grayscale</a> which applies one of the above
4533grayscaling formula directly to an image without setting the <a href="command-line-options.html#intensity">-intensity</a> setting.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004534
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004535<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#colorspace">-colorspace gray</a> image conversion also uses
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004536the current intensity setting, but will always convert the image to the
4537appropriate sRGB or linear-RGB colorspace before appling the above
4538function.</p>
4539
4540<p>To print a complete list of posible pixel intensity setting methods, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list intensity</a>.</p>
4541
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004542<p>Operators affected by the <a href="command-line-options.html#intensity">-intensity</a> setting include:</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004543
4544<pre>
4545-adaptive-blur
4546-adaptive-sharpen
4547-black-threshold
4548-clut (when mapping greyscale CLUT image to alpha channel if set by -channels)
4549-colors for gray colorspace
4550-compose {LightenIntensity, DarkenIntensity, CopyOpacity, CopyBlack}
4551-contrast-stretch
4552-distort {ErodeIntensity, DilateIntensity}
4553-normalize
4554-random-threshold
4555-selective-blur
4556-shade
4557-threshold
4558-tint
4559-white-threshold
4560</pre>
4561
4562<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004563 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="intent"></a>-intent <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004564</div>
4565
4566<p class="magick-description">use this type of rendering intent when managing the image color.</p>
4567
4568<p>Use this option to affect the color management operation of an image (see
4569<a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a>). Choose from these intents: <code>Absolute,
4570Perceptual, Relative, Saturation</code>.</p>
4571
4572<p>The default intent is Perceptual for the sRGB colorspace and undefined for the RGB and gray colorspaces.</p>
4573
4574<p>To print a complete list of rendering intents, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list intent</a>.</p>
4575
4576<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004577 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="interlace"></a>-interlace <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004578</div>
4579
4580<p class="magick-description">the type of interlacing scheme.</p>
4581
4582<p>Choose from:</p>
4583
4584<pre>
4585 none
4586 line
4587 plane
4588 partition
4589 JPEG
4590 GIF
4591 PNG
4592</pre>
4593
4594<p>This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image
4595formats such as <code>RGB</code> or <code>YUV</code>.</p>
4596
4597<p><code>None</code> means do not interlace (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...),</p>
4598
4599<p><code>Line</code> uses scanline interlacing (RRR...GGG...BBB...RRR...GGG...BBB...), and.</p>
4600
4601<p><code>Plane</code> uses plane interlacing (RRRRRR...GGGGGG...BBBBBB...).</p>
4602
4603<p><code>Partition</code> is like plane except the different planes are saved to
4604individual files (e.g. image.R, image.G, and image.B).</p>
4605
4606<p>Use <code>Line</code> or <code>Plane</code> to create an <code>interlaced
4607PNG</code> or <code>GIF</code> or <code>progressive JPEG</code> image.</p>
4608
4609<p>To print a complete list of interlacing schemes, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
4610interlace</a>.</p>
4611
4612<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004613 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="interpolate"></a>-interpolate <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004614</div>
4615
4616<p class="magick-description">Set the pixel color interpolation method to use when looking up a color based on a floating point or real value.</p>
4617
4618<p>When looking up the color of a pixel using a non-integer floating point
4619value, you typically fall in between the pixel colors defined by the source
4620image. This setting determines how the color is determined from the colors of
4621the pixels surrounding that point. That is how to determine the color of a
4622point that falls between two, or even four different colored pixels. </p>
4623
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004624<dl class="dl-horizontal">
4625 <dt>integer</dt>
4626 <dd>The color of the top-left pixel (floor function)</dd>
4627 <dt>nearest-neighbor</dt>
4628 <dd>The nearest pixel to the lookup point (rounded function)</dd>
4629 <dt>average</dt>
4630 <dd>The average color of the surrounding four pixels</dd>
4631 <dt>bilinear</dt>
4632 <dd>A double linear interpolation of pixels (the default)</dd>
4633 <dt>mesh</dt>
4634 <dd>Divide area into two flat triangular interpolations</dd>
4635 <dt>bicubic</dt>
4636 <dd>Fitted bicubic-spines of surrounding 16 pixels</dd>
4637 <dt>spline</dt>
4638 <dd>Direct spline curves (colors are blurred)</dd>
4639 <dt>filter</dt>
4640 <dd>Use resize <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> settings</dd>
4641</dl>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004642
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004643<p>This most important for distortion operators such as <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#implode">-implode</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#transform">-transform</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#fx">-fx</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004644
4645<p>To print a complete list of interpolation methods, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list interpolate</a>.</p>
4646
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004647<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a>, for control of the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004648lookup for positions outside the boundaries of the image. </p>
4649
4650
4651<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004652 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="interline-spacing"></a>-interline-spacing <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004653</div>
4654
4655<p class="magick-description">the space between two text lines.</p>
4656
4657<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004658 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="interword-spacing"></a>-interword-spacing <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004659</div>
4660
4661<p class="magick-description">the space between two words.</p>
4662
4663<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004664 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="kerning"></a>-kerning <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004665</div>
4666
4667<p class="magick-description">the space between two letters.</p>
4668
4669<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004670 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="kuwahara"></a>-kuwahara <var>radius</var><br>-kuwahara <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004671</div>
4672
4673<p class="magick-description">edge preserving noise reduction filter.</p>
4674
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004675<p>The <var>radius</var> is more important than the <var>sigma</var>. If <var>sigma</var> is left off, it will be computed automatically from the <var>radius</var> as <var>sigma</var>=<var>radius</var>-0.5. The <var>sigma</var> provides a bit of additional smoothing control.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004676
4677
4678<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004679 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="label"></a>-label <var>name</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004680</div>
4681
4682<p class="magick-description">assign a label to an image.</p>
4683
4684<p>Use this option to assign a specific label to the image, as it is read in
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004685or created. You can use the <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> operation to re-assign
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004686a the labels of images already read in. Image formats such as TIFF, PNG,
4687MIFF, supports saving the label information with the image.</p>
4688
4689<p>When saving an image to a <var>PostScript</var> file, any label
4690assigned to an image is used as a header string to print above the postscript
4691image. </p>
4692
4693<p>You can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image
4694attribute by embedding special format character. See <a href="escape.html">Format and Print Image
4695Properties</a> for details of the percent escape codes.</p>
4696
4697<p>For example,</p>
4698
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004699<pre>
4700-label "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
4701</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004702
4703<p>assigns an image label of <code>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</code> to the
4704"<code>bird.miff</code>" image and whose width is 512 and height is 480, as it
4705is read in. If a <a href="command-line-options.html#label">+label</a> option was used instead, any
4706existing label present in the image would be used. You can remove all labels
4707from an image by assigning the empty string. </p>
4708
4709<p>A label is not drawn on the image, but is embedded in the image datastream
4710via <var>Label</var> tag or similar mechanism. If you want the label to be
4711visible on the image itself, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> option, or
4712during the final processing in the creation of an image montage.</p>
4713
4714<p>If the first character of <var>string</var> is <var>@</var>, the image label is read from a file titled by the
4715remaining characters in the string. Labels in a file are literal, no embedded
4716formatting characters are recognized.</p>
4717
4718
4719<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004720 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="lat"></a>-lat <var>width</var><br>-lat <var>width</var>x<var>height</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>offset</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004721</div>
4722
4723<p class="magick-description">perform local adaptive threshold.</p>
4724
4725<p>Adaptively threshold each pixel based on the value of pixels in a
4726surrounding window. If the current pixel is lighter than this average plus
4727the optional <code>offset</code>, then it is made white, otherwise it is made
4728black. Small variations in pixel values such as found in scanned documents
4729can be ignored if offset is positive. A negative offset will make it more
4730sensitive to those small variations. </p>
4731
4732<p>This is commonly used to threshold images with an uneven background. It is
4733based on the assumption that average color of the small window is the
4734the local background color, from which to separate the foreground color. </p>
4735
4736
4737<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00004738 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="layers"></a>-layers <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004739</div>
4740
4741<p class="magick-description">handle multiple images forming a set of image layers or animation frames.</p>
4742
4743<p>Perform various image operation methods to a ordered sequence of images
4744which may represent either a set of overlaid 'image layers', a GIF disposal
4745animation, or a fully-'coalesced' animation sequence. </p>
4746
4747<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
4748 <tbody>
4749 <tr>
4750 <th style="width: 8%">Method</th>
4751 <th>Description</th>
4752 </tr>
4753
4754 <tr>
4755 <td>compare-any</td>
4756 <td>Crop the second and later frames to the smallest rectangle
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004757 that contains all the differences between the two images. No GIF <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">-dispose</a> methods are taken into account. </td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004758 </tr>
4759
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004760 <tr><td></td><td>This exactly the same as the <a href="command-line-options.html#deconstruct">-deconstruct</a> operator, and does not preserve animations normal
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004761 working, especially when animation used layer disposal methods such as
4762 '<code>Previous</code>' or '<code>Background</code>'. </td>
4763 </tr>
4764
4765 <tr>
4766 <td>compare-clear</td>
4767 <td>As '<code>compare-any</code>' but crop to the bounds of any
4768 opaque pixels which become transparent in the second frame. That is the
4769 smallest image needed to mask or erase pixels for the next frame. </td>
4770 </tr>
4771
4772 <tr>
4773 <td>compare-overlay</td>
4774 <td>As '<code>compare-any</code>' but crop to pixels that add
4775 extra color to the next image, as a result of overlaying color pixels.
4776 That is the smallest single overlaid image to add or change colors. </td>
4777 </tr>
4778
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004779 <tr><td></td><td>This can be used with the <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> alpha
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004780 composition method '<code>change-mask</code>', to reduce the image to
4781 just the pixels that need to be overlaid. </td>
4782 </tr>
4783
4784 <tr>
4785 <td>coalesce</td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004786 <td>Equivalent to a call to the <a href="command-line-options.html#coalesce">-coalesce</a> operator. Apply the layer disposal methods set in the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004787 current image sequence to form a fully defined animation sequence, as
4788 it should be displayed. Effectively converting a GIF animation into a
4789 'film strip'-like animation. </td>
4790 </tr>
4791
4792 <tr>
4793 <td>composite</td>
4794 <td>Alpha Composition of two image lists, separated by a
4795 "<code>null:</code>" image, with the destination image list first, and
4796 the source images last. An image from each list are composited
4797 together until one list is finished. The separator image and source
4798 image lists are removed. </td>
4799 </tr>
4800
4801
4802 <tr><td></td>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004803 <td>The <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a> offset is adjusted according
4804 to <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> in accordance of the virtual
4805 canvas size of the first image in each list. Unlike a normal <a href="command-line-options.html#composite">-composite</a> operation, the canvas offset is also
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004806 added to the final composite positioning of each image. </td> </tr>
4807
4808 <tr><td></td>
4809 <td>If one of the image lists only contains one image, that image is
4810 applied to all the images in the other image list, regardless of which
4811 list it is. In this case it is the image meta-data of the list which
4812 preserved. </td>
4813 </tr>
4814
4815
4816 <tr>
4817 <td>dispose</td>
4818 <td>This like '<code>coalesce</code>' but shows the look of
4819 the animation after the layer disposal method has been applied, before
4820 the next sub-frame image is overlaid. That is the 'dispose' image that
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004821 results from the application of the GIF <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">-dispose</a> method. This allows you to check what
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004822 is going wrong with a particular animation you may be developing.
4823 </td>
4824 </tr>
4825
4826 <tr>
4827 <td>flatten</td>
4828 <td>Create a canvas the size of the first images virtual
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004829 canvas using the current <a href="command-line-options.html#background">-background</a> color,
4830 and <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> each image in turn onto that
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004831 canvas. Images falling outside that canvas is clipped. Final
4832 image will have a zero virtual canvas offset. </td>
4833 </tr>
4834
4835 <tr><td></td>
4836 <td>This usually used as one of the final 'image layering' operations
4837 overlaying all the prepared image layers into a final image. </td>
4838 </tr>
4839
4840 <tr><td></td>
4841 <td>For a single image this method can also be used to fillout a virtual
4842 canvas with real pixels, or to underlay an opaque color to remove
4843 transparency from an image.</td>
4844 </tr>
4845
4846
4847 <tr>
4848 <td>merge</td>
4849 <td>As 'flatten' method but merging all the given image
4850 layers to create a new layer image just large enough to hold all the
4851 image without clipping or extra space. The new images virtual offset
4852 will preserve the position of the new layer, even if this offset is
4853 negative. The virtual canvas size of the first image is preserved.
4854 </td>
4855 </tr>
4856
4857 <tr><td></td><td>Caution is advised when handling image layers with
4858 negative offsets as few image file formats handle them correctly.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004859 Following this operation method with <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004860 will remove the layer offset, and create an image in which all the
4861 overlaid image positions relative to each other is preserved, though
4862 not necessarily exactly where you specified them.
4863 </td>
4864 </tr>
4865
4866 <tr><td></td><td>See also 'trim-bounds' below which is closely related but
4867 without doing the'flatten' to merge the images together. </td>
4868 </tr>
4869
4870 <tr>
4871 <td>mosaic</td>
4872 <td>As 'flatten' method but expanding the initial canvas size
4873 of the first image in a positive direction only so as to hold all the
4874 image layers. However as a virtual canvas is 'locked' to the origin,
4875 by its own definition, image layers with a negative offsets will still
4876 become clipped by the top and left edges. See 'merge' or 'trim-bounds'
4877 if this could be a problem. </td>
4878
4879 </tr>
4880
4881 <tr><td></td><td>This method is commonly used to layout individual image
4882 using various offset but without knowing the final canvas size. The
4883 resulting image will, like 'flatten' not have any virtual offset, so
4884 can be saved to any image file format. </td>
4885 </tr>
4886
4887
4888 <tr>
4889 <td>optimize</td>
4890 <td>Optimize a coalesced animation, into GIF animation using
4891 a number of general techniques. This currently a short cut to
4892 apply both the '<code>optimize-frame</code>', and
4893 '<code>optimize-transparency</code>' methods but may be expanded to
4894 include other optimization methods as they are developed. </td>
4895 </tr>
4896
4897 <tr>
4898 <td>optimize-frame</td>
4899 <td>Optimize a coalesced animation, into GIF animation by
4900 reducing the number of pixels per frame as much as possible by
4901 attempting to pick the best layer disposal method to use, while ensuring
4902 the result will continue to animate properly. </td>
4903 </tr>
4904
4905 <tr><td></td><td> There is no guarantee that the best optimization is found.
4906 But then no reasonably fast GIF optimization algorithm can do this.
4907 However this does seem to do better than most other GIF frame
4908 optimizers seen. </td>
4909 </tr>
4910
4911 <tr>
4912 <td>optimize-plus</td>
4913 <td>As '<code>optimize-frame</code>' but attempt to improve the
4914 overall optimization by adding extra frames to the animation, without
4915 changing the final look or timing of the animation. The frames are
4916 added to attempt to separate the clearing of pixels from the
4917 overlaying of new additional pixels from one animation frame to the
4918 next. If this does not improve the optimization (for the next frame
4919 only), it will fall back to the results of the previous normal
4920 '<code>optimize-frame</code>' technique. </td>
4921 </tr>
4922
4923 <tr><td></td><td>There is the possibility that the change in the disposal
4924 style will result in a worsening in the optimization of later frames,
4925 though this is unlikely. In other words there no guarantee that it is
4926 better than the normal '<code>optimize-frame</code>' technique. For some
4927 animations however you can get a vast improvement in the final
4928 animation size. </td>
4929 </tr>
4930
4931 <tr>
4932 <td>optimize-transparency</td>
4933 <td>Given a GIF animation, replace any pixel in the sub-frame
4934 overlay images with transparency, if it does not change the resulting
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004935 animation by more than the current <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> factor.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004936 </td>
4937 </tr>
4938
4939 <tr><td></td><td>This should allow a existing frame optimized GIF animation
4940 to compress into a smaller file size due to larger areas of one
4941 (transparent) color rather than a pattern of multiple colors repeating
4942 the current disposed image of the last frame. </td>
4943 </tr>
4944
4945 <tr>
4946 <td>remove-dups</td>
4947 <td>Remove (and merge time delays) of duplicate consecutive
4948 images, so as to simplify layer overlays of coalesced animations.
4949 </td>
4950 </tr>
4951
4952 <tr><td></td><td>Usually this a result of using a constant time delay
4953 across the whole animation, or after a larger animation was split into
4954 smaller sub-animations. The duplicate frames could also have been
4955 used as part of some frame optimization methods. </td>
4956 </tr>
4957
4958 <tr>
4959 <td>remove-zero</td>
4960 <td>Remove any image with a zero time delay, unless ALL the
4961 images have a zero time delay (and is not a proper timed animation, a
4962 warning is then issued). </td>
4963 </tr>
4964
4965 <tr><td></td><td>In a GIF animation, such images are usually frames which
4966 provide partial intermediary updates between the frames that are
4967 actually displayed to users. These frames are usually added for
4968 improved frame optimization in GIF animations. </td>
4969 </tr>
4970
4971 <tr>
4972 <td>trim-bounds</td>
4973 <td>Find the bounds of all the images in the current
4974 image sequence, then adjust the offsets so all images are contained on
4975 a minimal positive canvas. None of the image data is modified or
4976 merged, only the individual image virtual canvas size and offset.
4977 All the images is given the same canvas size, and and will have
4978 a positive offset, but will remain in the same position relative to
4979 each other. As a result of the minimal canvas size at least one image
4980 will touch every edge of that canvas. The image data touching those
4981 edges however may be transparent. </td>
4982 </tr>
4983
4984 <tr><td></td><td>The result is much like if you used 'merge' followed by a
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004985 <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a> option, except that all the images
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004986 have been kept separate. If 'flatten' is used after using
4987 'trim-bounds' you will get the same result. </td>
4988 </tr>
4989
4990 </tbody>
4991</table>
4992
4993<p>To print a complete list of layer types, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list layers</a>.</p>
4994
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00004995<p>The operators <a href="command-line-options.html#coalesce">-coalesce</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#deconstruct">-deconstruct</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#flatten">-flatten</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#mosaic">-mosaic</a> are only aliases for the above methods and may be depreciated in
4996the future. Also see <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">-repage</a> operators, the <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> setting, and the
4997GIF <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">-dispose</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#delay">-delay</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00004998settings. </p>
4999
5000
5001<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005002 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="level"></a>-level <var>black_point</var>{,<var>white_point</var>}{<var>%</var>}{,<var>gamma</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005003</div>
5004
5005<p class="magick-description">adjust the level of image channels.</p>
5006
5007<p>Given one, two or three values delimited with commas: black-point,
5008white-point, gamma (for example: 10,250,1.0 or 2%,98%,0.5). The black and
5009white points range from 0 to <var>QuantumRange</var>, or from 0 to
5010100%; if the white point is omitted it is set to (<var>QuantumRange</var> - black_point), so as to center contrast changes.
5011If a <code>%</code> sign is present anywhere in the string, both black and white
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005012points are percentages of the full color range. Gamma will do a <a href="command-line-options.html#gamma">-gamma</a> adjustment of the values. If it is omitted, the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005013default of 1.0 (no gamma correction) is assumed.</p>
5014
5015<p>In normal usage (<code>-level</code>) the image values are stretched so that
5016the given '<code>black_point</code>' value in the original image is set to zero
5017(or black), while the given '<code>white_point</code>' value is set to <var>QuantumRange</var> (or white). This provides you with direct
5018contrast adjustments to the image. The '<code>gamma</code>' of the resulting
5019image will then be adjusted. </p>
5020
5021<p>From ImageMagick v6.4.1-9 using the plus form of the operator
5022(<code>+level</code>) or adding the special '!' flag anywhere in the argument
5023list, will cause the operator to do the reverse of the level adjustment. That
5024is a zero, or <var>QuantumRange</var> value (black, and white, resp.)
5025in the original image, is adjusted to the given level values, allowing you to
5026de-contrast, or compress the channel values within the image. The
5027'<code>gamma</code>' is adjusted before the level adjustment to de-contrast the
5028image is made. </p>
5029
5030<p>Only the channels defined by the current <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
5031setting are adjusted (defaults to RGB color channels only), allowing you to
5032limit the effect of this operator. </p>
5033
5034<p>Please note that the transparency channel is treated as 'matte'
5035values (0 is opaque) and not as 'alpha' values (0 is transparent).</p>
5036
5037
5038<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005039 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="level-colors"></a>-level-colors {<var>black_color</var>}{,}{<var>white_color</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005040</div>
5041
5042<p class="magick-description">adjust the level of an image using the provided dash separated colors.</p>
5043
5044<p>This function is exactly like <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a>, except that the
5045value value for each color channel is determined by the
5046'<code>black_color</code>' and '<code>white_color</code>' colors given (as
5047described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option). </p>
5048
5049<p>This effectually means the colors provided to <code>-level-colors</code>
5050is mapped to become 'black' and 'white' respectively, with all the other
5051colors linearly adjusted (or clipped) to match that change. Each channel is
5052adjusted separately using the channel values of the colors specified. </p>
5053
5054<p>On the other hand the plus form of the operator (<code>+level-colors</code>)
5055will map the image color 'black' and 'white' to the given colors
5056respectively, resulting in a gradient (de-contrasting) tint of the image to
5057those colors. This can also be used to convert a plain gray-scale image into a
5058one using the gradient of colors specified. </p>
5059
5060<p>By supplying a single color with a comma separator either before or after
5061that color, will just replace the respective 'black' or 'white' point
5062respectively. But if no comma separator is provided, the given color is
5063used for both the black and white color points, making the operator either
5064threshold the images around that color (- form) or set all colors to that
5065color (+ form). </p>
5066
5067
5068<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005069 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="limit"></a>-limit <var>type value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005070</div>
5071
5072<p class="magick-description">Set the pixel cache resource limit.</p>
5073
5074<p>Choose from: <code>area</code>, <code>disk</code>, <code>file</code>,
5075<code>map</code>, <code>memory</code>, <code>thread</code>, or <code>time</code>.</p>
5076
5077<p>The value for <code>file</code> is in number of files. The other limits are
5078in bytes. Define arguments for the memory, map, area, and disk resource limits
5079with SI prefixes (.e.g 100MB).</p>
5080
5081<p>By default the limits are 768 files, 3GB of image area, 1.5GiB memory, 3GiB
5082memory map, and 18.45EB of disk. These limits are adjusted relative to the
5083available resources on your computer if this information is available. When
5084any limit is reached, ImageMagick fails in some fashion but attempts to take
5085compensating actions, if possible. For example, the following limits
5086memory:</p>
5087
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005088<pre>
5089-limit memory 32MiB -limit map 64MiB
5090</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005091
5092<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list resource</a> to list the current limits. For example, our system shows these limits:</p>
5093
5094<pre>
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005095-&gt; identify -list resource
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005096Resource limits:
5097 Width: 100MP
5098 Height: 100MP
5099 Area: 25.181GB
5100 Memory: 11.726GiB
5101 Map: 23.452GiB
5102 Disk: unlimited
5103 File: 768
5104 Thread: 12
5105 Throttle: 0
5106 Time: unlimited
5107</pre>
5108
5109<p>Requests for pixel storage to keep intermediate images are satisfied by one
5110of three resource categories: in-memory pool, memory-mapped files pool, and
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005111disk pool (in that order) depending on the <a href="command-line-options.html#limit">‑limit</a> settings
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005112and whether the system honors a resource request. If the total size of
5113allocated pixel storage in the given pool reaches the corresponding limit, the
5114request is passed to the next pool. Additionally, requests that exceed the
5115<code>area</code> limit automagically are allocated on disk.</p>
5116
5117<p>To illustrate how ImageMagick utilizes resource limits, consider a typical
5118image resource request. First, ImageMagick tries to allocate the pixels in
5119memory. The request might be denied if the resource request exceeds the
5120<code>memory</code> limit or if the system does not honor the request. If
5121a memory request is not honored, the pixels are allocated to disk and the file
5122is memory-mapped. However, if the allocation request exceeds the
5123<code>map</code> limit, the resource allocation goes to disk. In all cases, if
5124the resource request exceeds the <code>area</code> limit, the pixels are
5125automagically cached to disk. If the disk has a hard limit, the program
5126fails.</p>
5127
5128<p>In most cases you simply do not need to concern yourself with resource
5129limits. ImageMagick chooses reasonable defaults and most images do not tax
5130your computer resources. Where limits do come in handy is when you process
5131images that are large or on shared systems where ImageMagick can consume all
5132or most of the available memory. In this case, the ImageMagick workflow slows
5133other processes or, in extreme cases, brings the system to a halt. Under
5134these circumstances, setting limits give some assurances that the ImageMagick
5135workflow will not interfere with other concurrent uses of the computer. For
5136example, assume you have a web interface that processes images uploaded from
5137the Internet. To assure ImageMagick does not exceed 10MiB of memory you can
5138simply set the area limit to 10MiB:</p>
5139
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005140<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005141-limit area 10MB
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005142</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005143
5144<p>Now whenever a large image is processed, the pixels are automagically
5145cached to disk instead of memory. This of course implies that large images
5146typically process very slowly, simply because pixel processing in memory can
5147be an order of magnitude faster than on disk. Because your web site users
5148might inadvertently upload a huge image to process, you should set a disk
5149limit as well:</p>
5150
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005151<pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005152-limit area 10MB -limit disk 500MB
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005153</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005154
5155<p>Here ImageMagick stops processing if an image requires more than 500MB of disk storage.</p>
5156
5157<p>In addition to command-line resource limit option, resources can be set
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005158with <a href="resources.html#environment">environment variables</a>. Set the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005159environment variables <code>MAGICK_AREA_LIMIT</code>,
5160<code>MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT</code>, <code>MAGICK_FILE_LIMIT</code>,
5161<code>MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT</code>, <code>MAGICK_MAP_LIMIT</code>,
5162<code>MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT</code>, <code>MAGICK_TIME_LIMIT</code> for limits of
5163image area, disk space, open files, heap memory, memory map, number of threads
5164of execution, and maximum elapsed time in seconds respectively.</p>
5165
5166<p> Inquisitive users can try adding <a href="command-line-options.html#debug">-debug cache</a> to
5167their commands and then scouring the generated output for references to the
5168pixel cache, in order to determine how the pixel cache was allocated and how
5169resources were consumed. Advanced Unix/Linux users can pipe that output
5170through <code>grep memory|open|destroy|disk</code> for more readable sifting.
5171</p>
5172
5173<p>For more about ImageMagick's use of resources, see the section <b>Cache
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005174Storage and Resource Requirements</b> on the <a href="architecture.html#cache%0A">Architecture</a> page. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005175
5176<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005177 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="linear-stretch"></a>-linear-stretch <var>black-point</var><br>-linear-stretch <var>black-point</var>{x<var>white-point</var>}{<var>%</var>}}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005178</div>
5179
5180<p class="magick-description">Linear with saturation stretch.</p>
5181
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005182<p>This is very similar to <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a>,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005183and uses a 'histogram bin' to determine the range of color values that needs to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005184be stretched. However it then stretches those colors using the <a href="command-line-options.html#level">-level</a> operator.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005185
5186<p>As such while the initial determination may have 'binning' round off
5187effects, the image colors are stretched mathematically, rather than using the
5188histogram bins. This makes the operator more accurate. </p>
5189
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005190<p>note however that a <a href="command-line-options.html#linear-stretch">-linear-stretch</a> of
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005191'<code>0</code>' does nothing, while a value of '<code>1</code>' does a near
5192perfect stretch of the color range. </p>
5193
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005194<p>See also <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect'
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005195normalization of mathematical images. </p>
5196
5197<p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
5198
5199
5200<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005201 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="linewidth"></a>-linewidth</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005202</div>
5203
5204<p class="magick-description">the line width for subsequent draw operations.</p>
5205
5206<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005207 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="liquid-rescale"></a>-liquid-rescale <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005208</div>
5209
5210<p class="magick-description">rescale image with seam-carving.</p>
5211
5212<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5213
5214<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005215 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="list"></a>-list <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005216</div>
5217
5218<p class="magick-description">Print a list of supported arguments for various options or settings. Choose from these list types:</p>
5219
5220<pre>
5221 Align Alpha Boolean Channel
5222 Class ClipPath Coder Color
5223 Colorspace Command Compose Compress
5224 Configure DataType Debug Decoration
5225 Delegate Direction Dispose Distort
5226 Dither Endian Evaluate FillRule
5227 Filter Font Format Function
5228 Gravity ImageList Intent Interlace
5229 Interpolate Kernel Layers LineCap
5230 LineJoin List Locale LogEvent
5231 Log Magic Method Metric
5232 Mime Mode Morphology Module
5233 Noise Orientation Policy PolicyDomain
5234 PolicyRights Preview Primitive QuantumFormat
5235 Resource SparseColor Storage Stretch
5236 Style Threshold Type Units
5237 Validate VirtualPixel
5238</pre>
5239
5240<p>These lists vary depending on your version of ImageMagick. Use "<code>-list
5241list</code>" to get a complete listing of all the "<code>-list</code>" arguments
5242available:</p>
5243
5244<pre>
5245identify -list list
5246</pre>
5247
5248<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005249 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="log"></a>-log <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005250</div>
5251
5252<p class="magick-description">Specify format for debug log.</p>
5253
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005254<p>This option specifies the format for the log printed when the <a href="command-line-options.html#debug">-debug</a> option is active.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005255
5256<p>You can display the following components by embedding special format
5257characters:</p>
5258
5259<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005260%d domain
5261%e event
5262%f function
5263%l line
5264%m module
5265%p process ID
5266%r real CPU time
5267%t wall clock time
5268%u user CPU time
5269%% percent sign
5270\n newline
5271\r carriage return
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005272</pre>
5273
5274<p>For example:</p>
5275
5276<pre>
5277convert -debug coders -log "%u %m:%l %e" in.gif out.png
5278</pre>
5279
5280<p>The default behavior is to print all of the components.</p>
5281
5282<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005283 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="loop"></a>-loop <var>iterations</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005284</div>
5285
5286<p class="magick-description">add Netscape loop extension to your GIF animation.</p>
5287
5288<p>Set iterations to zero to repeat the animation an infinite number of times,
5289otherwise the animation repeats itself up to <var>iterations</var>
5290times.</p>
5291
5292<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005293 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="lowlight-color"></a>-lowlight-color <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005294</div>
5295
5296<p class="magick-description">when comparing images, de-emphasize pixel differences with this color.</p>
5297
5298<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005299 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="magnify"></a>-magnify</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005300</div>
5301
5302<p class="magick-description">double the size of the image with pixel art scaling.</p>
5303
5304
5305<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005306 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="map"></a>-map <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005307</div>
5308
5309<p class="magick-description">Display image using this <var>type</var>.</p>
5310
5311<p>Choose from these <var>Standard Colormap</var> types:</p>
5312
5313<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005314best
5315default
5316gray
5317red
5318green
5319blue
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005320</pre>
5321
5322<p>The <var>X server</var> must support the <var>Standard
5323Colormap</var> you choose, otherwise an error occurs. Use <code>list</code> as
5324the type and <code>display</code> searches the list of colormap types in
5325<code>top-to-bottom</code> order until one is located. See <var>xstdcmap(1)</var> for one way of creating Standard Colormaps.</p>
5326
5327
5328<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005329 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="map_stream_"></a>-map <var>components</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005330</div>
5331
5332<p class="magick-description">pixel map.</p>
5333
5334<p>Here are the valid components of a map:</p>
5335
5336<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005337r red pixel component
5338g green pixel component
5339b blue pixel component
5340a alpha pixel component (0 is transparent)
5341o opacity pixel component (0 is opaque)
5342i grayscale intensity pixel component
5343c cyan pixel component
5344m magenta pixel component
5345y yellow pixel component
5346k black pixel component
5347p pad component (always 0)
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005348</pre>
5349
5350<p>You can specify as many of these components as needed in any order (e.g.
5351bgr). The components can repeat as well (e.g. rgbr).</p>
5352
5353
5354<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005355 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="mask"></a>-mask
5356<var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005357</div>
5358
5359<p class="magick-description">Prevent updates to image pixels specified by the mask.</p>
5360
5361<p>This the same as using a mask used for composite masking operations, with
5362grayscale values causing blended updates of the image the mask is attached to.
5363</p>
5364
5365<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#mask">+mask</a> to remove the mask from images.</p>
5366
5367<p>Also see <a href="command-line-options.html#clip-mask">-clip-mask</a> which work in the same way,
5368but with strict boolean masking. </p>
5369
5370<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005371 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="mattecolor"></a>-mattecolor <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005372</div>
5373
5374<p class="magick-description">Specify the color to be used with the <a href="command-line-options.html#frame">-frame</a> option.</p>
5375
5376<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
5377
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005378<p>The default matte color is <code>#BDBDBD</code>, <span style="background-color: #bdbdbd;">this shade of gray</span>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005379
5380<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005381 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="maximum"></a>-maximum</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005382</div>
5383
5384<p class="magick-description">return the maximum intensity of an image sequence.</p>
5385
5386<p>Select the 'maximum' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
5387
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005388<p>This is legacy option from the <a href="command-line-options.html#statistic">method</a> of the same
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005389name. </p>
5390
5391<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005392 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="median"></a>-median <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005393</div>
5394
5395<p class="magick-description">apply a median filter to the image.</p>
5396
5397<p>Select the 'middle' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
5398
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005399<p>This is legacy option from the <a href="command-line-options.html#statistic">method</a> of the same
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005400name. </p>
5401
5402<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005403 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="mean-shift"></a>-mean-shift <var>width</var>x<var>height</var>{<var>+distance</var>{%}}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005404</div>
5405
5406<p class="magick-description">image noise removal and color reduction/segmentation (e.g. -mean-shift 7x7+10%).</p>
5407
5408<p><var>width</var>x<var>height</var> is the window size and <var>distance</var> is the color distance measured in the range 0 to 1 or 0 to 100%</p>
5409
5410<p>The mean shift algorithm is iterative and thus slower the larger the window size. For each pixel, it gets all the pixels in the window centered at the pixel and excludes those that are outside the radius=sqrt((width-1)(height-1)/4) surrounding the pixel. From those pixels, it finds which of them are within the specified squared color distance from the current mean. It then computes a new x,y centroid from those coordinates and a new mean. This new x,y centroid is used as the center for a new window. This process is iterated until it converges and the final mean is then used to replace the original pixel value. It repeats this process for the next pixel, etc, until it processes all pixels in the image. Results are better when using other colorspaces rather than RGB. Recommend YIQ, YUV or YCbCr, which seem to give equivalent results.</p>
5411
5412<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005413 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="metric"></a>-metric <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005414</div>
5415
5416<p class="magick-description">Output to STDERR a measure of the differences between images according to the <var>type</var> given metric.</p>
5417
5418<p>Choose from:</p>
5419
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005420<dl class="dl-horizontal">
5421<dt>AE</dt><dd> absolute error count, number of different pixels (-fuzz effected)</dd>
5422<dt>FUZZ</dt><dd> mean color distance</dd>
5423<dt>MAE</dt><dd> mean absolute error (normalized), average channel error distance</dd>
5424<dt>MEPP</dt><dd> mean error per pixel (normalized mean error, normalized peak error)</dd>
5425<dt>MSE</dt><dd> mean error squared, average of the channel error squared</dd>
5426<dt>NCC</dt><dd> normalized cross correlation</dd>
5427<dt>PAE</dt><dd> peak absolute (normalized peak absolute)</dd>
5428<dt>PHASH</dt><dd> perceptual hash</dd>
5429<dt>PSNR</dt><dd> peak signal to noise ratio</dd>
5430<dt>RMSE</dt><dd> root mean squared (normalized root mean squared)</dd>
5431</dl>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005432
5433<p>Control the '<code>AE</code>', or absolute count of pixels that are different,
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005434with the <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> factor (ignore pixels which
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005435only changed by a small amount). Use '<code>PAE</code>' to find the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005436size of the <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> factor needed to make all pixels
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005437'similar', while '<code>MAE</code>' determines the factor needed
5438for about half the pixels to be similar. </p>
5439
5440<p>The '<code>MEPP</code>' metric returns three different metrics
5441('<code>MAE</code>', '<code>MAE</code>' normalized, and '<code>PAE</code>'
5442normalized) from a single comparison run. </p>
5443
5444<p>To print a complete list of metrics, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
5445metric</a> option.</p>
5446
5447
5448<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005449 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="minimum"></a>-minimum</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005450</div>
5451
5452<p class="magick-description">return the minimum intensity of an image sequence.</p>
5453
5454<p>Select the 'minimal' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
5455
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005456<p>This is legacy option from the <a href="command-line-options.html#statistic">method</a> of the same
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005457name. </p>
5458
5459
5460
5461<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005462 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="mode"></a>-mode <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005463</div>
5464
5465<p class="magick-description">make each pixel the \'predominant color\' of the neighborhood.'</p>
5466
5467<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005468 <h3 class="magick-header">-mode <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005469</div>
5470
5471<p class="magick-description">Mode of operation.</p>
5472
5473<p>Choose the <var>value</var> from these styles: <code>Frame,
5474Unframe, or Concatenate</code></p>
5475
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005476<p>Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list</a> option with a '<code>Mode</code>' argument
5477for a list of <a href="command-line-options.html#mode">-mode</a> arguments available in your
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005478ImageMagick installation.</p>
5479
5480
5481<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005482 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="modulate"></a>-modulate <var>brightness</var>[,<var>saturation</var>,<var>hue</var>]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005483</div>
5484
5485<p class="magick-description">Vary the <var>brightness</var>, <var>saturation</var>, and <var>hue</var> of an image.</p>
5486
5487<p>The arguments are given as a percentages of variation. A value of 100 means
5488no change, and any missing values are taken to mean 100.</p>
5489
5490<p>The <var>brightness</var> is a multiplier of the overall
5491brightness of the image, so 0 means pure black, 50 is half as bright, 200 is
5492twice as bright. To invert its meaning <a href="command-line-options.html#negate">-negate</a> the image
5493before and after. </p>
5494
5495<p>The <var>saturation</var> controls the amount of color in an
5496image. For example, 0 produce a grayscale image, while a large value such as
5497200 produce a very colorful, 'cartoonish' color.</p>
5498
5499<p>The <var>hue</var> argument causes a "rotation" of the colors
5500within the image by the amount specified. For example, 50 results in
5501a counter-clockwise rotation of 90, mapping red shades to purple, and so on.
5502A value of either 0 or 200 results in a complete 180 degree rotation of the
5503image. Using a value of 300 is a 360 degree rotation resulting in no change to
5504the original image. </p>
5505
5506<p>For example, to increase the color brightness by 20% and decrease the color
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005507saturation by 10% and leave the hue unchanged, use <a href="command-line-options.html#modulate">-modulate 120,90</a>.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005508
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005509<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> attribute of '<code>option:modulate:colorspace</code>' to specify which colorspace to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005510modulate. Choose from <code>HCL</code>, <code>HCLp</code>, <code>HSB</code>, <code>HSI</code>, <code>HSL</code> (the default), <code>HSV</code>, <code>HWB</code>, or <code>LCH</code> (LCHuv). For example,</p>
5511
5512<pre>
5513convert image.png -set option:modulate:colorspace hsb -modulate 120,90 modulate.png
5514</pre>
5515
5516<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005517 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="moments"></a>-moments</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005518</div>
5519
5520<p class="magick-description">report image moments and perceptual hash.</p>
5521
5522
5523<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005524 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="monitor"></a>-monitor</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005525</div>
5526
5527<p class="magick-description">monitor progress.</p>
5528
5529
5530<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005531 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="monochrome"></a>-monochrome</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005532</div>
5533
5534<p class="magick-description">transform the image to black and white.</p>
5535
5536<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005537 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="morph"></a>-morph <var>frames</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005538</div>
5539
5540<p class="magick-description">morphs an image sequence.</p>
5541
5542<p>Both the image pixels and size are linearly interpolated to give the
5543appearance of a metamorphosis from one image to the next, over all the images
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005544in the current image list. The added images are the equivalent of a <a href="command-line-options.html#blend">-blend</a> composition. The <var>frames</var>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005545argument determine how many images to interpolate between each image. </p>
5546
5547
5548<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005549 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="morphology"></a>-morphology</h3>
5550 <h3 class="magick-header">-morphology <var>method</var> <var>kernel</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005551</div>
5552
5553<p class="magick-description">apply a morphology method to the image.</p>
5554
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005555<p>Until I get around to writing an option summary for this, see <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/">IM Usage Examples,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005556Morphology</a>. </p>
5557
5558
5559<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005560 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="mosaic"></a>-mosaic</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005561</div>
5562
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005563<p class="magick-description">an simple alias for the <a href="command-line-options.html#layers">-layers</a> method "mosaic"</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005564
5565
5566<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005567 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="motion-blur"></a>-motion-blur <var>radius</var><br>-motion-blur <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var>+<var>angle</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005568</div>
5569
5570<p class="magick-description">simulate motion blur.</p>
5571
5572<p>Blur with the given radius, standard deviation (sigma), and angle. The
5573angle given is the angle toward which the image is blurred. That is the
5574direction people would consider the object is coming from. </p>
5575
5576<p>Note that the blur is not uniform distribution, giving the motion a
5577definite sense of direction of movement. </p>
5578
5579<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
5580pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
5581</p>
5582
5583<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005584 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="name"></a>-name</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005585</div>
5586
5587<p class="magick-description">name an image.</p>
5588<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005589 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="negate"></a>-negate</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005590</div>
5591
5592<p class="magick-description">replace each pixel with its complementary color.</p>
5593
5594<p>The red, green, and blue intensities of an image are negated. White becomes
5595black, yellow becomes blue, etc. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#negate">+negate</a> to only
5596negate the grayscale pixels of the image.</p>
5597
5598<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005599 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="noise"></a>-noise <var>geometry</var><br>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005600 +noise <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005601</div>
5602
5603<p class="magick-description">Add or reduce noise in an image.</p>
5604
5605<p>The principal function of noise peak elimination filter is to smooth the
5606objects within an image without losing edge information and without creating
5607undesired structures. The central idea of the algorithm is to replace a pixel
5608with its next neighbor in value within a pixel window, if this pixel has been
5609found to be noise. A pixel is defined as noise if and only if this pixel is
5610a maximum or minimum within the pixel window.</p>
5611
5612<p>Use <code><a href="command-line-options.html#noise">-noise</a> <var>radius</var></code> to
5613specify the width of the neighborhood when reducing noise. This is equivalent
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005614to using a <code><a href="command-line-options.html#statistic">-statistic</a> NonPeak</code> operation,
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005615which should be used in preference.</p>
5616
5617<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#noise">+noise</a> followed by a noise <var>type</var> to add noise to an image. Choose from these noise
5618types:</p>
5619
5620<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005621Gaussian
5622Impulse
5623Laplacian
5624Multiplicative
5625Poisson
5626Random
5627Uniform
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005628</pre>
5629
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005630<p>The amount of noise added can be controled by the <code><a href="command-line-options.html#attunuuate">-attenuate</a></code> setting. If unset the value is
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005631equivalent to 1.0, or a maximum noise addition.</p>
5632
5633<p>Note that Random will replace the image with noise rather than add noise to the image. Use Uniform, if you wish to add random noise to the image.</p>
5634
5635<p>To print a complete list of noises, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list noise</a> option.</p>
5636
5637<p>Also see the <a href="command-line-options.html#evaluate">-evaluate</a> noise functions that allows
5638the use of a controlling value to specify the amount of noise that should be
5639added to an image. </p>
5640
5641
5642<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005643 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="normalize"></a>-normalize</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005644</div>
5645
5646<p class="magick-description">Increase the contrast in an image by <var>stretching</var> the range of intensity values.</p>
5647
5648<p>The intensity values are stretched to cover the entire range of possible
5649values. While doing so, black-out at most <var>2%</var> of the pixels and
5650white-out at most <var>1%</var> of the pixels.</p>
5651
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005652<p>Note that as of ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <a href="command-line-options.html#normalize">-normalize</a>
5653is equivalent to <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch 2%x1%</a>.
5654(Before this version, it was equivalent to <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch 2%x99%</a>).</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005655
5656<p>All the channels are normalized in concert by the came amount so as to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005657preserve color integrity, when the default <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">+channel</a>
5658setting is in use. Specifying any other <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005659setting will normalize the RGB channels independently.</p>
5660
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005661<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a> for more details.
5662Also see <a href="command-line-options.html#auto-level">-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect' normalization
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005663that is better suited to mathematically generated images. </p>
5664
5665<p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
5666
5667
5668<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005669 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="opaque"></a>-opaque <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005670</div>
5671
5672<p class="magick-description">change this color to the fill color within the image.</p>
5673
5674<p>The <var>color</var> argument is defined using the format
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005675described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option. The <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> setting can be used to match and replace colors similar to the one
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005676given.</p>
5677
5678<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#opaque">+opaque</a> to paint any pixel that does not match
5679the target color. </p>
5680
5681<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent">-transparent</a> operator is exactly the same
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005682as <a href="command-line-options.html#opaque">-opaque</a> but replaces the matching color with
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005683transparency rather than the current <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> color setting.
5684To ensure that it can do this it also ensures that the image has an alpha
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005685channel enabled, as per "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a> set</code>", for
5686the new transparent colors, and does not require you to modify the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> to enable alpha channel handling. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005687
5688
5689<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005690 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="ordered-dither"></a>-ordered-dither <var>threshold_map</var>{,<var>level</var>...}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005691</div>
5692
5693<p class="magick-description">dither the image using a pre-defined ordered dither <var>threshold map</var> specified, and a uniform color map with the
5694given number of <var>levels</var> per color channel.</p>
5695
5696<p>You can choose from these standard threshold maps:</p>
5697
5698<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005699threshold 1x1 Threshold 1x1 (non-dither)
5700checks 2x1 Checkerboard 2x1 (dither)
5701o2x2 2x2 Ordered 2x2 (dispersed)
5702o3x3 3x3 Ordered 3x3 (dispersed)
5703o4x4 4x4 Ordered 4x4 (dispersed)
5704o8x8 8x8 Ordered 8x8 (dispersed)
5705h3x4a 4x1 Halftone 4x4 (angled)
5706h6x6a 6x1 Halftone 6x6 (angled)
5707h8x8a 8x1 Halftone 8x8 (angled)
5708h3x4o Halftone 4x4 (orthogonal)
5709h6x6o Halftone 6x6 (orthogonal)
5710h8x8o Halftone 8x8 (orthogonal)
5711h36x16o Halftone 16x16 (orthogonal)
5712c5x5b c5x5 Circles 5x5 (black)
5713c5x5w Circles 5x5 (white)
5714c6x6b c6x6 Circles 6x6 (black)
5715c6x6w Circles 6x6 (white)
5716c7x7b c7x7 Circles 7x7 (black)
5717c7x7w Circles 7x7 (white)
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005718</pre>
5719
5720<p> The <code>threshold</code> generated a simple 50% threshold of the image.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005721This could be used with <var>level</var> to do the equivalent of <a href="command-line-options.html#posterize">-posterize</a> to reduce an image to basic primary colors.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005722</p>
5723
5724<p>The <code>checks</code> pattern produces a 3 level checkerboard dither
5725pattern. That is a grayscale will become a pattern of solid black, solid
5726white, and mid-tone colors into a checkerboard pattern of black and white.
5727</p>
5728
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005729<p>You can define your own <var>threshold map</var> for ordered
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005730dithering and halftoning your images, in either personal or system
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005731<code>thresholds.xml</code> XML file. See <a href="resources.html">Resources</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005732for more details of configuration files. </p>
5733
5734<p>To print a complete list of the thresholds that have been defined, use the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005735<a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list threshold</a> option.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005736
5737<p>Note that at this time the same threshold dithering map is used for all
5738color channels, no attempt is made to offset or rotate the map for different
5739channels is made, to create an offset printing effect. Also as the maps are
5740simple threshold levels, the halftone and circle maps will create incomplete
5741circles along the edges of a colored area. Also all the effects are purely
5742on/off boolean effects, without anti-aliasing to make the circles smooth
5743looking. Large dots can be made to look better with a small amount of blurring
5744after being created. </p>
5745
5746
5747<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005748 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="orient"></a>-orient <var>image orientation</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005749</div>
5750
5751<p class="magick-description">specify orientation of a digital camera image.</p>
5752
5753<p>Choose from these orientations:</p>
5754
5755<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005756bottom-left
5757bottom-right
5758left-bottom
5759left-top
5760right-bottom
5761right-top
5762top-left
5763top-right
5764undefined
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005765</pre>
5766
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005767<p>To print a complete list of orientations, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005768orientation</a> option.</p>
5769
5770
5771<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005772 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="page"></a>-page <var>geometry</var><br>
5773 -page <var>media</var>[<var>offset</var>][{<var>^!&lt;&gt;</var>}]<br>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005774 +page
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005775 </h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005776</div>
5777
5778<p class="magick-description">Set the size and location of an image on the larger virtual canvas.</p>
5779
5780<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5781
5782<p>For convenience you can specify the page size using <var>media</var> (see below). Offsets can then be added as with other
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005783<var>geometry</var> arguments (e.g. <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a> <code>Letter+43+43</code>).</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005784
5785<p>Use <var>media</var> as shorthand to specify the dimensions (<var>width</var>x<var>height</var>) of the <var>PostScript</var> page in dots per inch or a TEXT page in pixels.
5786The choices for a PostScript page are:</p>
5787
5788<div class="table-responsive">
5789<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
5790 <tr>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005791 <td><var>Media</var></td>
5792 <td align="right"><var>Width</var></td>
5793 <td align="right"><var>Height</var></td>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005794 </tr>
5795<tr><td> 11x17 </td> <td align="right"> 792</td> <td align="right"> 1224</td> </tr>
5796<tr><td> Ledger </td> <td align="right"> 1224</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
5797<tr><td> Legal </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 1008</td> </tr>
5798<tr><td> Letter </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
5799<tr><td> LetterSmall</td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
5800<tr><td> ArchE </td> <td align="right"> 2592</td> <td align="right"> 3456</td> </tr>
5801<tr><td> ArchD </td> <td align="right"> 1728</td> <td align="right"> 2592</td> </tr>
5802<tr><td> ArchC </td> <td align="right"> 1296</td> <td align="right"> 1728</td> </tr>
5803<tr><td> ArchB </td> <td align="right"> 864</td> <td align="right"> 1296</td> </tr>
5804<tr><td> ArchA </td> <td align="right"> 648</td> <td align="right"> 864</td> </tr>
5805<tr><td> A0 </td> <td align="right"> 2380</td> <td align="right"> 3368</td> </tr>
5806<tr><td> A1 </td> <td align="right"> 1684</td> <td align="right"> 2380</td> </tr>
5807<tr><td> A2 </td> <td align="right"> 1190</td> <td align="right"> 1684</td> </tr>
5808<tr><td> A3 </td> <td align="right"> 842</td> <td align="right"> 1190</td> </tr>
5809<tr><td> A4 </td> <td align="right"> 595</td> <td align="right"> 842</td> </tr>
5810<tr><td> A4Small </td> <td align="right"> 595</td> <td align="right"> 842</td> </tr>
5811<tr><td> A5 </td> <td align="right"> 421</td> <td align="right"> 595</td> </tr>
5812<tr><td> A6 </td> <td align="right"> 297</td> <td align="right"> 421</td> </tr>
5813<tr><td> A7 </td> <td align="right"> 210</td> <td align="right"> 297</td> </tr>
5814<tr><td> A8 </td> <td align="right"> 148</td> <td align="right"> 210</td> </tr>
5815<tr><td> A9 </td> <td align="right"> 105</td> <td align="right"> 148</td> </tr>
5816<tr><td> A10 </td> <td align="right"> 74</td> <td align="right"> 105</td> </tr>
5817<tr><td> B0 </td> <td align="right"> 2836</td> <td align="right"> 4008</td> </tr>
5818<tr><td> B1 </td> <td align="right"> 2004</td> <td align="right"> 2836</td> </tr>
5819<tr><td> B2 </td> <td align="right"> 1418</td> <td align="right"> 2004</td> </tr>
5820<tr><td> B3 </td> <td align="right"> 1002</td> <td align="right"> 1418</td> </tr>
5821<tr><td> B4 </td> <td align="right"> 709</td> <td align="right"> 1002</td> </tr>
5822<tr><td> B5 </td> <td align="right"> 501</td> <td align="right"> 709</td> </tr>
5823<tr><td> C0 </td> <td align="right"> 2600</td> <td align="right"> 3677</td> </tr>
5824<tr><td> C1 </td> <td align="right"> 1837</td> <td align="right"> 2600</td> </tr>
5825<tr><td> C2 </td> <td align="right"> 1298</td> <td align="right"> 1837</td> </tr>
5826<tr><td> C3 </td> <td align="right"> 918</td> <td align="right"> 1298</td> </tr>
5827<tr><td> C4 </td> <td align="right"> 649</td> <td align="right"> 918</td> </tr>
5828<tr><td> C5 </td> <td align="right"> 459</td> <td align="right"> 649</td> </tr>
5829<tr><td> C6 </td> <td align="right"> 323</td> <td align="right"> 459</td> </tr>
5830<tr><td> Flsa </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 936</td> </tr>
5831<tr><td> Flse </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 936</td> </tr>
5832<tr><td> HalfLetter </td> <td align="right"> 396</td> <td align="right"> 612</td> </tr>
5833</table></div>
5834
5835<p>This option is also used to place subimages when writing to a multi-image
5836format that supports offsets, such as GIF89 and MNG. When used for this
5837purpose the offsets are always measured from the top left corner of the canvas
5838and are not affected by the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option. To
5839position a GIF or MNG image, use <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a><var>{+-}x{+-}y</var> (e.g. -page +100+200). When writing to a MNG
5840file, a <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a> option appearing ahead of the first image in
5841the sequence with nonzero width and height defines the width and height values
5842that are written in the <code>MHDR</code> chunk. Otherwise, the MNG width and
5843height are computed from the bounding box that contains all images in the
5844sequence. When writing a GIF89 file, only the bounding box method is used to
5845determine its dimensions.</p>
5846
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005847<p>For a PostScript page, the image is sized as in <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-geometry</a> but positioned relative to the <var>lower
5848left-hand corner</var> of the page by {+-}<code>x</code><var>offset</var>{+-}<code>y</code> <var>offset</var>. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page 612x792</a>, for example, to center the image within the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005849page. If the image size exceeds the PostScript page, it is reduced to fit the
5850page. The default gravity for the <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a> option is <var>NorthWest</var>, i.e., positive <code>x</code> and <code>y</code> <var>offset</var> are measured rightward and downward from the top left
5851corner of the page, unless the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option is
5852present with a value other than <var>NorthWest</var>.</p>
5853
5854<p>The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is 612x792.</p>
5855
5856<p>This option is used in concert with <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a>.</p>
5857
5858<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#page">+page</a> to remove the page settings for an image.</p>
5859
5860<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005861 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="paint"></a>-paint <var>radius</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005862</div>
5863
5864<p class="magick-description">simulate an oil painting.</p>
5865
5866<p>Each pixel is replaced by the most frequent color in a circular
5867neighborhood whose width is specified with <var>radius</var>.</p>
5868
5869<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005870 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="path"></a>-path <var>path</var></h3></div>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005871
5872<p class="magick-description">write images to this path on disk.</p>
5873
5874<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005875 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="pause_animate_"></a>-pause <var>seconds</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005876</div>
5877
5878<p class="magick-description">Pause between animation loops</p>
5879
5880<p>Pause for the specified number of seconds before repeating the animation.</p>
5881
5882<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005883 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="pause_import_"></a>-pause <var>seconds</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005884</div>
5885
5886<p class="magick-description">Pause between snapshots.</p>
5887
5888<p>Pause for the specified number of seconds before taking the next snapshot.</p>
5889
5890<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005891 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="perceptible"></a>-perceptible <var>epsilon</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005892</div>
5893
5894<p class="magick-description">set each pixel whose value is less than |<var>epsilon</var>| to <var>-epsilon</var> or <var>epsilon</var> (whichever is closer) otherwise the pixel value remains unchanged.</p>
5895
5896<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005897 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="ping"></a>-ping</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005898</div>
5899
5900<p class="magick-description">efficiently determine image characteristics.</p>
5901
5902<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005903 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="pointsize"></a>-pointsize <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005904</div>
5905
5906<p class="magick-description">pointsize of the PostScript, OPTION1, or TrueType font.</p>
5907
5908<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005909 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="polaroid"></a>-polaroid <var>angle</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005910</div>
5911
5912<p class="magick-description">simulate a Polaroid picture.</p>
5913
5914<p>Use <code>+polaroid</code> to rotate the image at a random angle between -15 and +15 degrees.</p>
5915
5916<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005917 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="poly"></a>-poly <var>"wt,exp ..."</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005918</div>
5919
5920<p class="magick-description">combines multiple images according to a weighted sum of polynomials; one floating point weight (coefficient) and one floating point polynomial exponent (power) for each image expressed as comma separated pairs.</p>
5921
5922<p> The weights should typically be fractions between -1 and 1. But the sum of weights should be 1 or at least between 0 and 1 to avoid clamping in non-hdri mode at black and white.</p>
5923
5924<p>The exponents may be positive, negative or zero. A negative exponent is equivalent to 1 divided by the image raised to the corresponding positive exponent. A zero exponent always produces 1 scaled by quantumrange to white, i.e. wt*white, no matter what the image.</p>
5925
5926<p>The format is: output = wt1*image1^exp1 + wt2*image2^exp2 ...</p>
5927
5928<p>Some simple uses are:</p>
5929<ul>
5930<li>A weighted sum of each image provided all weights add to unity and all exponents=1. If the the weights are all equal to 1/(number of images), then this is equivalent to <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-evaluate-sequence</a> <var>mean</var>.</li>
5931<li>The sum of squares of two or more images, provided the weights are equal (and sum to 1 to avoid clamping) and the exponents equal 2.</li>
5932</ul>
5933
5934<p>Note that one may add a constant color to the expression simply by using xc:somecolor for one of the images and specifying the desired weight and exponent equal to 0.</p>
5935
5936<p>Similarly one may add white to the expression by simply using null: (or xc:white) for one of the images with the appropriate weight and exponent equal to 0.</p>
5937
5938
5939<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005940 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="posterize"></a>-posterize <var>levels</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005941</div>
5942
5943<p class="magick-description">reduce the image to a limited number of color levels per channel.</p>
5944
5945<p>Very low values of <var>levels</var>, e.g., 2, 3, 4, have the most
5946visible effect.</p>
5947
5948<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005949 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="precision"></a>-precision <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005950</div>
5951
5952<p class="magick-description">set the maximum number of significant digits to be printed.</p>
5953
5954<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005955 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="preview"></a>-preview <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005956</div>
5957
5958<p class="magick-description">image preview type.</p>
5959
5960<p>Use this option to affect the preview operation of an image (e.g.
5961<code>convert file.png -preview Gamma Preview:gamma.png</code>). Choose from
5962these previews:</p>
5963
5964<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005965Rotate Shear Roll Hue
5966Saturation Brightness Gamma Spiff
5967Dull Grayscale Quantize Despeckle
5968ReduceNoise Add Noise Sharpen Blur
5969Threshold EdgeDetect Spread Shade
5970Raise Segment Solarize Swirl
5971Implode Wave OilPaint CharcoalDrawing
5972JPEG
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005973</pre>
5974
5975<p>To print a complete list of previews, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list preview</a> option.</p>
5976
5977<p>The default preview is <code>JPEG</code>.</p>
5978
5979<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005980 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="print"></a>-print <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005981</div>
5982
5983<p class="magick-description">interpret string and print to console.</p>
5984
5985<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005986 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="process"></a>-process <var>command</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005987</div>
5988
5989<p class="magick-description">process the image with a custom image filter.</p>
5990
5991<p>The command arguments has the form <code>"module arg1 arg2 arg3 ...
5992argN"</code> where <code>module</code> is the name of the module to invoke (e.g.
5993"Analyze") and arg1 arg2 arg3 ... argN are an arbitrary number of arguments to
5994pass to the process module.</p>
5995
5996<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00005997 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="profile"></a>-profile <var>filename</var><br>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00005998 +profile <var>profile_name</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00005999</div>
6000
6001<p class="magick-description">Manage ICM, IPTC, or generic profiles in an image.</p>
6002
6003<p>Using <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> <var>filename</var> adds an
6004ICM (ICC color management), IPTC (newswire information), or a generic profile
6005to the image.</p>
6006
6007<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">+profile <var>profile_name</var></a> to
6008remove the indicated profile. ImageMagick uses standard filename globbing, so
6009wildcard expressions may be used to remove more than one profile. Here we
6010remove all profiles from the image except for the XMP profile: <code>+profile
6011"!xmp,*"</code>. </p>
6012
6013<p>Use <code>identify -verbose</code> to find out which profiles are in the
6014image file. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#strip">-strip</a> to remove all profiles (and
6015comments).</p>
6016
6017<p>To extract a profile, the <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> option is not
6018used. Instead, simply write the file to an image format such as <var>APP1, 8BIM, ICM,</var> or <var>IPTC</var>.</p>
6019
6020<p>For example, to extract the Exif data (which is stored in JPEG files in the
6021<var>APP1</var> profile), use.</p>
6022
6023<pre>
6024convert cockatoo.jpg profile.exif
6025</pre>
6026
6027<p>It is important to note that results may depend on whether or not the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006028original image already has an included profile. Also, keep in mind that <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> is an "operator" (as opposed to a "setting") and
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006029therefore a conversion is made each time it is encountered, in order, in the
6030command-line. For instance, in the following example, if the original image is
6031CMYK with profile, a CMYK-CMYK-RGB conversion results.</p>
6032
6033<pre>
6034convert CMYK.tif -profile "CMYK.icc" -profile "RGB.icc" RGB.tiff
6035</pre>
6036
6037<p>Furthermore, since ICC profiles are not necessarily symmetric, extra
6038conversion steps can yield unwanted results. CMYK profiles are often very
6039asymmetric since they involve 3−&gt;4 and 4−&gt;3 channel mapping.
6040</p>
6041
6042<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006043 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="quality"></a>-quality <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006044</div>
6045
6046<p class="magick-description">JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level.</p>
6047
6048<p>For the JPEG and MPEG image formats, quality is 1 (lowest image quality and
6049highest compression) to 100 (best quality but least effective compression).
6050The default is to use the estimated quality of your input image if it can
6051be determined, otherwise 92. When the quality is greater than 90, then the
6052chroma channels are not downsampled.
6053Use the <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> option to specify the
6054factors for chroma downsampling.</p>
6055
6056<p>For the MIFF image format, quality/10 is the zlib compression level, which
6057is 0 (worst but fastest compression) to 9 (best but slowest). It has no effect
6058on the image appearance, since the compression is always lossless.</p>
6059
6060<p>For the JPEG-2000 image format, quality is mapped using a non-linear
6061equation to the compression ratio required by the Jasper library. This
6062non-linear equation is intended to loosely approximate the quality provided by
6063the JPEG v1 format. The default quality value 100, a request for non-lossy
6064compression. A quality of 75 results in a request for 16:1 compression.</p>
6065
6066<p>For the MNG and PNG image formats, the quality value sets the zlib
6067compression level (quality / 10) and filter-type (quality % 10). The default
6068PNG "quality" is 75, which means compression level 7 with adaptive PNG
6069filtering, unless the image has a color map, in which case it means
6070compression level 7 with no PNG filtering.</p>
6071
6072<p>For compression level 0 (quality value less than 10), the Huffman-only
6073strategy is used, which is fastest but not necessarily the worst
6074compression.</p>
6075
6076<p>If filter-type is 4 or less, the specified PNG filter-type is used for
6077all scanlines:</p>
6078
6079<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +000060800: none
60811: sub
60822: up
60833: average
60844: Paeth
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006085</pre>
6086
6087<p>If filter-type is 5, adaptive filtering is used when quality is greater
6088than 50 and the image does not have a color map, otherwise no filtering is
6089used.</p>
6090
6091<p>If filter-type is 6, adaptive filtering
6092with <var>minimum-sum-of-absolute-values</var> is used.</p>
6093
6094<p>Only if the output is MNG, if filter-type is 7, the LOCO color
6095transformation (intrapixel differencing) and adaptive filtering
6096with <var>minimum-sum-of-absolute-values</var> are used.</p>
6097
6098<p>If the filter-type is 8 the zlib Z_RLE compression strategy (or the
6099Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY strategy, when compression level is 0) is used with
6100adaptive PNG filtering.</p>
6101
6102<p>If the filter-type is 9 the zlib Z_RLE compression strategy (or the
6103Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY strategy, when compression level is 0) is used with
6104no PNG filtering.</p>
6105
6106<p>The quality setting has no effect on the appearance or signature of PNG
6107and MNG images, since the compression is always lossless.</p>
6108
6109<p>Not all combinations of compression level, strategy, and PNG filter type
6110can be obtained using the -quality option. For more precise control,
6111you can use the PNG:compression-level=N, PNG:compression-strategy=N, and
6112PNG:compression-filter=N defines, respectively, instead.
6113See <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a>. Values from the defines take precedence
6114over values from the -quality option.</p>
6115
6116<p>For further information, see
6117the <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR">PNG</a> specification.</p>
6118
6119<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006120 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="quantize"></a>-quantize <var>colorspace</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006121</div>
6122
6123<p class="magick-description">reduce colors using this colorspace.</p>
6124
6125<p>This setting defines the colorspace used to sort out and reduce the number
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006126of colors needed by an image (for later dithering) by operators such as <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a>, Note that color reduction also happens
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006127automatically when saving images to color-limited image file formats, such as
6128GIF, and PNG8.</p>
6129
6130
6131<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006132 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="quiet"></a>-quiet</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006133</div>
6134
6135<p class="magick-description">suppress all warning messages. Error messages are still reported.</p>
6136
6137<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006138 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="radial-blur"></a>-radial-blur <var>angle</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006139</div>
6140
6141<p class="magick-description">Blur around the center of the image.</p>
6142
6143<p>Note that this is actually a rotational blur rather than a radial and as
6144such actually mis-named. </p>
6145
6146<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
6147pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
6148</p>
6149
6150
6151<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006152 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="raise"></a>-raise <var>thickness</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006153</div>
6154
6155<p class="magick-description">Lighten or darken image edges.</p>
6156
6157<p>This will create a 3-D effect. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#raise">-raise</a> to create
6158a raised effect, otherwise use <a href="command-line-options.html#raise">+raise</a>. </p>
6159
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006160<p>Unlike the similar <a href="command-line-options.html#frame">-frame</a> option, <a href="command-line-options.html#raise">-raise</a> does not alter the dimensions of the image.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006161
6162<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006163 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="random-threshold"></a>-random-threshold <var>low</var>x<var>high</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006164</div>
6165
6166<p class="magick-description">Apply a random threshold to the image.</p>
6167
6168<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006169 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="red-primary"></a>-red-primary <var>x,y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006170</div>
6171
6172<p class="magick-description">Set the red chromaticity primary point.</p>
6173
6174<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006175 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="regard-warnings"></a>-regard-warnings</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006176</div>
6177
6178<p class="magick-description">Pay attention to warning messages.</p>
6179
6180<p>This option causes some warnings in some image formats to be treated
6181as errors. </p>
6182
6183<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006184 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="remap"></a>-remap <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006185</div>
6186
6187<p class="magick-description">Reduce the number of colors in an image to the colors used by this image.</p>
6188
6189<p>If the <a href="command-line-options.html#dither">-dither</a> setting is enabled (the default) then
6190the given colors are dithered over the image as necessary, otherwise the closest
6191color (in RGB colorspace) is selected to replace that pixel in the image. </p>
6192
6193<p>As a side effect of applying a <a href="command-line-options.html#remap">-remap</a> of colors across all
6194images in the current image sequence, all the images will have the same color
6195table. That means that when saved to a file format such as GIF, it will use
6196that color table as a single common or global color table, for all the images,
6197without requiring extra local color tables. </p>
6198
6199<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#remap">+remap</a> to reduce all images in the current image
6200sequence to use a common color map over all the images. This equivalent to
6201appending all the images together (without extra background colors) and color
6202reducing those images using <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a> with a 256 color
6203limit, then <a href="command-line-options.html#remap">-remap</a> those colors over the original list of
6204images. This ensures all the images follow a single color map. </p>
6205
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006206<p>If the number of colors over all the images is less than 256, then <a href="command-line-options.html#remap">+remap</a> should not perform any color reduction or dithering, as
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006207no color changes are needed. In that case, its only effect is to force the use
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006208of a global color table. This recommended after using either <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a> to
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006209reduce the number of colors in an animated image sequence. </p>
6210
6211<p>Note, the remap image colormap has at most 8-bits of precision. Deeper color maps are automagically coalesced with other colors to meet this requirement.</p>
6212
6213<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006214 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="region"></a>-region <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006215</div>
6216
6217<p class="magick-description">Set a region in which subsequent operations apply.</p>
6218
6219<p>The <var>x</var> and <var>y</var> offsets are treated
6220in the same manner as in <a href="command-line-options.html#crop">-crop</a>.</p>
6221
6222<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
6223
6224<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006225 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="remote"></a>-remote</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006226</div>
6227
6228<p class="magick-description">perform a remote operation.</p>
6229
6230<p>The only command recognized is the name of an image file to load.</p>
6231
6232<p>If you have more than one <a href="display.html">display</a> application
6233running simultaneously, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#window"> window</a> option to
6234specify which application to control.</p>
6235
6236<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006237 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="render"></a>-render</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006238</div>
6239
6240<p class="magick-description">render vector operations.</p>
6241
6242<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#render">+render</a> to turn off rendering vector operations.
6243This useful when saving the result to vector formats such as MVG or SVG.</p>
6244
6245<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006246<h3 class="magick-header"><a id="repage"></a>-repage <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006247</div>
6248
6249<p class="magick-description">Adjust the canvas and offset information of the image.</p>
6250
6251<p>This option is like <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a> but acts as an image operator
6252rather than a setting. You can separately set the canvas size or the offset
6253of the image on that canvas by only providing those components. </p>
6254
6255<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
6256
6257<p>If a <code>!</code> flag is given the offset given is added to the existing
6258offset to move the image relative to its previous position. This useful for
6259animation sequences. </p>
6260
6261<p>A given a canvas size of zero such as '<code>0x0</code>' forces it to
6262recalculate the canvas size so the image (at its current offset) will appear
6263completely on that canvas (unless it has a negative offset).</p>
6264
6265<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a> to completely remove/reset the virtual
6266canvas meta-data from the images. </p>
6267
6268<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> '<code>page</code>' option can be used to
6269directly assign virtual canvas meta-data. </p>
6270
6271
6272<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006273 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="resample"></a>-resample <var>horizontal</var>x<var>vertical</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006274</div>
6275
6276<p class="magick-description">Resample image to specified horizontal and vertical resolution.</p>
6277
6278<p>Resize the image so that its rendered size remains the same as the original
6279at the specified target resolution. For example, if a 300 DPI image renders at
62803 inches by 2 inches on a 300 DPI device, when the image has been resampled to
628172 DPI, it will render at 3 inches by 2 inches on a 72 DPI device. Note that
6282only a small number of image formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, and TIFF) are capable of
6283storing the image resolution. For formats which do not support an image
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006284resolution, the original resolution of the image must be specified via <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a> on the command line prior to specifying the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006285resample resolution.</p>
6286
6287<p>Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image resolution from a proprietary
6288embedded profile. If this profile exists in the image, then Photoshop will
6289continue to treat the image using its former resolution, ignoring the image
6290resolution specified in the standard file header.</p>
6291
6292<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006293 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="resize"></a>-resize <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006294</div>
6295
6296<p class="magick-description">Resize an image.</p>
6297
6298<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are
6299ignored, and the <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> option has no effect.</p>
6300
6301<p>If the <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> option
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006302or <code>-define filter:option=value</code> precedes the <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a> option, the image is resized with the specified
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006303filter.</p>
6304
6305<p>Many image processing algorithms assume your image is in a linear-light
6306coding. If your image is gamma-corrected, you can remove the nonlinear gamma
6307correction, apply the transform, then restore it like this:</p>
6308
6309<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006310convert portrait.jpg -gamma .45455 -resize 25% -gamma 2.2 \
6311 -quality 92 passport.jpg
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006312</pre>
6313
6314<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006315 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="respect-parentheses"></a>-respect-parentheses</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006316</div>
6317
6318<p class="magick-description">settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary.</p>
6319
6320<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006321 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="reverse"></a>-reverse</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006322</div>
6323
6324<p class="magick-description">Reverse the order of images in the current image list.</p>
6325
6326
6327<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006328 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="roll"></a>-roll {<var>+-</var>}<var>x</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006329</div>
6330
6331<p class="magick-description">roll an image vertically or horizontally by the amount given.</p>
6332
6333<p>A negative <var>x</var> offset rolls the image right-to-left.
6334A negative <var>y</var> offset rolls the image bottom-to-top.</p>
6335
6336
6337<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006338 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="rotate"></a>-rotate <var>degrees</var>{<var>&lt;</var>}{<var>&gt;</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006339</div>
6340
6341<p class="magick-description">Apply Paeth image rotation (using shear operations) to the image.</p>
6342
6343<p>Use <code>&gt;</code> to rotate the image only if its width exceeds the
6344height. <code>&lt;</code> rotates the image <var>only</var> if its width is less
6345than the height. For example, if you specify <code>-rotate "-90&gt;"</code> and
6346the image size is 480x640, the image is not rotated. However, if the image is
6347640x480, it is rotated by -90 degrees. If you use <code>&gt;</code> or
6348<code>&lt;</code>, enclose it in quotation marks to prevent it from being
6349misinterpreted as a file redirection.</p>
6350
6351<p>Empty triangles in the corners, left over from rotating the image, are
6352filled with the <code>background</code> color. </p>
6353
6354<p>See also the <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a> operator and specifically the
6355'<code>ScaleRotateTranslate</code>' distort method. </p>
6356
6357
6358<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006359 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sample"></a>-sample <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006360</div>
6361
6362<p class="magick-description">minify / magnify the image with pixel subsampling and pixel replication, respectively.</p>
6363
6364<p>Change the image size simply by directly sampling the pixels original
6365from the image. When magnifying, pixels are replicated in blocks. When
6366minifying, pixels are sub-sampled (i.e., some rows and columns are skipped
6367over). </p>
6368
6369<p>The results are thus equivalent to using <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a> with
6370a <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting of <code>point</code> (nearest
6371neighbour), though <a href="command-line-options.html#sample">-sample</a> is a lot faster, as it
6372avoids all the filter processing of the image. As such it completely ignores
6373the current <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting. </p>
6374
6375<p>The key feature of the <a href="command-line-options.html#sample">-sample</a> is that no new colors
6376will be added to the resulting image, though some colors may disappear. </p>
6377
6378<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are
6379ignored, unlike <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a>. </p>
6380
6381
6382<p>The actual sampling point is the middle of the sub-region being sampled.
6383As such a single pixel sampling of an image will take the middle pixel, (or
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006384top-left-middle if image has even dimensions). However the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> '<code>sample:offset</code>' can be set to modify
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006385this position some other location within each sub-region being sampled, as
6386a percentage offset.</p>
6387
6388<p>By default this value is '<code>50</code>' for the midpoint, but could be set
6389to '<code>0</code>' for top-left, '<code>100</code>' for bottom-right, or with
6390separate X and Y offsets such as '<code>0x50</code>' for left-middle edge of
6391sampling sub-region.</p>
6392
6393
6394<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006395 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sampling-factor"></a>-sampling-factor <var>horizontal-factor</var>x<var>vertical-factor</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006396</div>
6397
6398<p class="magick-description">sampling factors used by JPEG or MPEG-2 encoder and YUV decoder/encoder.</p>
6399
6400<p>This option specifies the sampling factors to be used by the JPEG encoder
6401for chroma downsampling. If this option is omitted, the JPEG library will use
6402its own default values. When reading or writing the YUV format and when
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006403writing the M2V (MPEG-2) format, use <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor 2x1</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor 4:2:2</a> to specify the 4:2:2
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006404downsampling method.</p>
6405
6406<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006407 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="scale"></a>-scale <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006408</div>
6409
6410<p class="magick-description">minify / magnify the image with pixel block averaging and pixel replication, respectively.</p>
6411
6412<p>Change the image size simply by replacing pixels by averaging pixels
6413together when minifying, or replacing pixels when magnifying. </p>
6414
6415<p>The results are thus equivalent to using <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a> with
6416a <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting of <code>box</code>. Though it is a lot
6417faster, as it avoids all the filter processing of the image. As such it
6418completely ignores the current <a href="command-line-options.html#filter">-filter</a> setting. </p>
6419
6420<p>If when shrinking (minifying) images the original image is some integer
6421multiple of the new image size, the number of pixels averaged together to
6422produce the new pixel color is the same across the whole image. This is
6423a special case known as 'binning' and is often used as a method of reducing
6424noise in image such as those generated by digital cameras, especially in low
6425light conditions. </p>
6426
6427
6428<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006429 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="scene"></a>-scene <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006430</div>
6431
6432<p class="magick-description">set scene number.</p>
6433
6434<p>This option sets the scene number of an image or the first image in an image sequence.</p>
6435
6436<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006437 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="screen"></a>-screen</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006438</div>
6439
6440<p class="magick-description">specify the screen to capture.</p>
6441
6442<p>This option indicates that the GetImage request used to obtain the image
6443should be done on the root window, rather than directly on the specified
6444window. In this way, you can obtain pieces of other windows that overlap the
6445specified window, and more importantly, you can capture menus or other popups
6446that are independent windows but appear over the specified window.</p>
6447
6448<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006449 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="seed"></a>-seed</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006450</div>
6451
6452<p class="magick-description">seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers</p>
6453
6454<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006455 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="segment"></a>-segment <var>cluster-threshold</var>x<var>smoothing-threshold</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006456</div>
6457
6458<p class="magick-description">segment the colors of an image.</p>
6459
6460<p>Segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and
6461identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique. This
6462is part of the ImageMagick color quantization routines. </p>
6463
6464<p>Specify <var>cluster threshold</var> as the number of pixels in
6465each cluster that must exceed the cluster threshold to be considered valid.
6466<var>Smoothing threshold</var> eliminates noise in the second
6467derivative of the histogram. As the value is increased, you can expect
6468a smoother second derivative. The default is 1.5.</p>
6469
6470<p>If the <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> setting is defined, a detailed report
6471of the color clusters is returned.</p>
6472
6473
6474<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006475 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="selective-blur"></a>-selective-blur <var>radius</var><br>-selective-blur <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var>{<var>+threshold</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006476</div>
6477
6478<p class="magick-description">Selectively blur pixels within a contrast threshold.</p>
6479
6480<p>Blurs those pixels that are less than or equal to the threshold in
6481contrast. The threshold may be expressed as a fraction of <var>QuantumRange</var> or as a percentage.</p>
6482
6483<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006484 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="separate"></a>-separate</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006485</div>
6486
6487<p class="magick-description">separate an image channel into a grayscale image. Specify the channel with <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a>.</p>
6488
6489<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006490 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sepia-tone"></a>-sepia-tone <var>threshold</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006491</div>
6492
6493<p class="magick-description">simulate a sepia-toned photo.</p>
6494
6495<p>Specify <var>threshold</var> as the percent threshold of the intensity (0 - 99.9%).</p>
6496
6497<p>This option applies a special effect to the image, similar to the effect
6498achieved in a photo darkroom by sepia toning. Threshold ranges from 0 to <var>QuantumRange</var> and is a measure of the extent of the sepia
6499toning. A threshold of 80% is a good starting point for a reasonable
6500tone.</p>
6501
6502
6503
6504<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006505 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="set"></a>-set <var>key value</var></h3>
6506 <h3 class="magick-header">+set <var>key</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006507</div>
6508
6509<p class="magick-description">sets image attributes and properties for images in the current image sequence.</p>
6510
6511<p>This will assign (or modify) specific settings attached to all the images
6512in the current image sequence. Using the <a href="command-line-options.html#set">+set</a> form of the
6513option will either remove, or reset that setting to a default state, as
6514appropriate. </p>
6515
6516<p>For example, it will modify specific well known image meta-data
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006517'attributes' such as those normally overridden by: the options <a href="command-line-options.html#delay">-delay</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#dispose">-dispose</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#colorspace">-colorspace</a>; generally
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006518assigned before the image is read in, by using a <var>key</var> of
6519the same name. </p>
6520
6521<p>If the given <var>key</var> does not match a specific known
6522'attribute ', such as shown above, the setting is stored as a a free form
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006523'property' string. Such settings are listed in <a href="command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a> information ("<code>info:</code>" output format) as "Properties".
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006524</p>
6525
6526<p>This includes string 'properties' that are set by and assigned to images
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006527using the options <a href="command-line-options.html#comment">-comment</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#label">-label</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#caption">-caption</a>. These options actually assign
6528a global 'artifact' which are automatically assigned (and any <a href="escape.html">Format Percent
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006529Escapes</a> expanded) to images as they are read in. For example:</p>
6530
6531<pre>
6532convert rose: -set comment 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' rose.png
6533identify -format %c rose.png
6534Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
6535</pre>
6536
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006537<p>The set value can also make use of <a href="escape.html">Format and Print Image
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006538Properties</a> in the defined value. For example:</p>
6539
6540<pre>
6541convert rose: -set origsize '%wx%h' -resize 50% \
6542 -format 'Old size = %[origsize] New size = %wx%h' info:
6543Old size = 70x46 New size = 35x23
6544</pre>
6545
6546<p>Other well known 'properties' that are availible include:
6547'<code>date:create</code>' and '<code>date:modify</code>' and
6548'<code>signature</code>'. </p>
6549
6550<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">-repage</a> operator will also allow you to modify
6551the '<code>page</code>' attribute of an image for images already in memory (also
6552see <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">-page</a>). However it is designed to provide a finer
6553control of the sub-parts of this 'attribute'. The <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set page</a>
6554option will only provide a direct, unmodified assignment of '<code>page</code>'
6555attribute. </p>
6556
6557<p>This option can also associate a colorspace or profile with your image.
6558For example,</p>
6559
6560<pre>
6561convert image.psd -set profile ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc image-icc.psd
6562</pre>
6563
6564<p>Some 'properties' must be defined in a specific way to be used. For
6565example only 'properties' prefixed with "<code>filename:</code>" can be used to
6566modify the output filename of an image. For example</p>
6567
6568<pre>
6569convert rose: -set filename:mysize '%wx%h' 'rose_%[filename:mysize].png'
6570</pre>
6571
6572<p>If the setting value is prefixed with "<code>option:</code>" the setting will
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006573be saved as a global "Artifact" exactly as if it was set using the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option. As such settings are global in scope, they
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006574can be used to pass 'attributes' and 'properties' of one specific image,
6575in a way that allows you to use them in a completely different image, even if
6576the original image has long since been modified or destroyed. For example: </p>
6577
6578<pre>
6579convert rose: -set option:rosesize '%wx%h' -delete 0 \
6580 label:'%[rosesize]' label_size_of_rose.gif"
6581</pre>
6582
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006583<p>Note that <a href="escape.html">Format Percent Escapes</a> will only match
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006584a 'artifact' if the given <var>key</var> does not match an existing
6585'attribute' or 'property'. </p>
6586
6587<p>You can set the attributes of the image registry by prefixing the value
6588with <code>registry:</code>.</p>
6589
6590<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set profile</a> option can also be used to inject
6591previously-formatted ancillary chunks into the output PNG file, using
6592the commandline option as shown below or by setting the profile via a
6593programming interface:</p>
6594
6595<pre>
6596convert in.png -set profile PNG-chunk-x:&lt;filename&gt; out.png
6597</pre>
6598
6599<p>where <var>x</var> is a location flag and
6600<var>filename</var> is a file containing the chunk
6601name in the first 4 bytes, then a colon (":"), followed by the chunk data.
6602This encoder will compute the chunk length and CRC, so those must not
6603be included in the file.</p>
6604
6605<p>"x" can be "b" (before PLTE), "m" (middle, i.e., between PLTE and IDAT),
6606or "e" (end, i.e., after IDAT). If you want to write multiple chunks
6607of the same type, then add a short unique string after the "x" to prevent
6608subsequent profiles from overwriting the preceding ones, e.g.,</p>
6609
6610
6611<pre>
6612convert in.png -set profile PNG-chunk-b01:file01 \
6613 -profile PNG-chunk-b02:file02 out.png
6614</pre>
6615
6616<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006617 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="shade"></a>-shade <var>azimuth</var>x<var>elevation</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006618</div>
6619
6620<p class="magick-description">shade the image using a distant light source.</p>
6621
6622<p>Specify <var>azimuth</var> and <var>elevation</var> as
6623the position of the light source. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#shade">+shade</a> to return
6624the shading results as a grayscale image.</p>
6625
6626<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006627 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="shadow"></a>-shadow <var>percent-opacity</var>{x<var>sigma</var>}{<var>+-</var>}<var>x</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>y</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006628</div>
6629
6630<p class="magick-description">simulate an image shadow.</p>
6631
6632<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006633 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="shared-memory"></a>-shared-memory</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006634</div>
6635
6636<p class="magick-description">use shared memory.</p>
6637
6638<p>This option specifies whether the utility should attempt to use shared
6639memory for pixmaps. ImageMagick must be compiled with shared memory support,
6640and the display must support the <var>MIT-SHM</var> extension.
6641Otherwise, this option is ignored. The default is <code>True</code>.</p>
6642
6643<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006644 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sharpen"></a>-sharpen <var>radius</var><br>-sharpen <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006645</div>
6646
6647<p class="magick-description">sharpen the image.</p>
6648
6649<p>Use a Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).</p>
6650
6651<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006652 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="shave"></a>-shave <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006653</div>
6654
6655<p class="magick-description">Shave pixels from the image edges.</p>
6656
6657<p>The <var>size</var> portion of the <var>geometry</var>
6658argument specifies the width of the region to be removed from both sides of
6659the image and the height of the regions to be removed from top and bottom.
6660Offsets are ignored.</p>
6661
6662<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
6663
6664<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006665 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="shear"></a>-shear <var>Xdegrees</var>[x<var>Ydegrees</var>]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006666</div>
6667
6668<p class="magick-description">Shear the image along the x-axis and/or y-axis.</p>
6669
6670<p>The shear angles may be positive, negative, or zero. When <var>Ydegrees</var> is omitted it defaults to 0. When both angles are
6671given, the horizontal component of the shear is performed before the vertical
6672component.</p>
6673
6674<p>Shearing slides one edge of an image along the x-axis or y-axis (i.e.,
6675horizontally or vertically, respectively),creating a parallelogram. The amount
6676of each is controlled by the respective shear angle. For horizontal shears,
6677<var>Xdegrees</var> is measured clockwise relative to "up" (the
6678negative y-axis), sliding the top edge to the right when 0°&lt;<var>Xdegrees</var>&lt;90° and to the left when 90°&lt;<var>Xdegrees</var>&lt;180°. For vertical shears <var>Ydegrees</var> is measured clockwise relative to "right" (the
6679positive x-axis), sliding the right edge down when 0°&lt;<var>Ydegrees</var>&lt;90° and up when 90°&lt;<var>Ydegrees</var>&lt;180°.</p>
6680
6681<p>Empty triangles left over from shearing the image are filled with the color
6682defined by the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-background</a> option. The color is specified
6683using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
6684
6685<p>The horizontal shear is performed before the vertical part. This is
6686important to note, since horizontal and vertical shears do not
6687<var>commute</var>, i.e., the order matters in a sequence of shears. For
6688example, the following two commands are not equivalent.</p>
6689
6690<pre>
6691convert logo: -shear 20x0 -shear 0x60 logo-sheared.png
6692convert logo: -shear 0x60 -shear 20x0 logo-sheared.png
6693</pre>
6694
6695<p>The first of the two commands above is equivalent to the following, except
6696for the amount of empty space created; the command that follows generates
6697a smaller image, and so is a better choice in terms of time and space.</p>
6698
6699<pre>
6700convert logo: -shear 20x60 logo-sheared.png
6701</pre>
6702
6703<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006704 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sigmoidal-contrast"></a>-sigmoidal-contrast <var>contrast</var>x<var>mid-point</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006705</div>
6706
6707<p class="magick-description">increase the contrast without saturating highlights or shadows.</p>
6708
6709<p>Increase the contrast of the image using a sigmoidal transfer function
6710without saturating highlights or shadows. <var>Contrast</var>
6711indicates how much to increase the contrast. For example, 0 is none, 3 is
6712typical and 20 is a lot.
6713</p>
6714
6715<p>The <var>mid-point</var> indicates where the maximum change
6716'slope' in contrast should fall in the resultant image (0 is white; 50% is
6717middle-gray; 100% is black). </p>
6718
6719<p>By default the image contrast is increased, use <var>+sigmoidal-contrast</var> to decrease the contrast.</p>
6720
6721<p>To achieve the equivalent of a sigmoidal brightness change (similar to
6722a gamma adjustment), you would use <var>-sigmoidal-contrast
6723{brightness}x0%</var> to increase brightness and <var>+sigmoidal-contrast {brightness}x0%</var> to decrease brightness.
6724Note the use of '0' fo rthe mid-point of the sigmoidal curve. </p>
6725
6726<p>Using a very high <var>contrast</var> will produce a sort of
6727'smoothed thresholding' of the image. Not as sharp (with high aliasing
6728effects) of a true threshold, but with tapered gray-levels around the threshold
6729<var>mid-point</var>. </p>
6730
6731<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006732 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="silent"></a>-silent</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006733</div>
6734
6735<p class="magick-description">operate silently.</p>
6736
6737<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006738 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="similarity-threshold"></a>-similarity-threshold <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006739</div>
6740
6741<p class="magick-description">minimum RMSE for subimage match.</p>
6742
6743<p>If this setting is used, then the search will stop as soon as it finds a match whose metric is less than or equal to the value. A partially filled second output image will result. Using a value of zero, will cause the search to stop at the first perfect match it finds. If this setting is left off, then the search will proceed to completion or as limited by <var>-dissimilarity-threshold</var>.</p>
6744
6745<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006746 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="size"></a>-size <var>width</var>[x<var>height</var>][<var>+offset</var>]</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006747</div>
6748
6749<p class="magick-description">set the width and height of the image.</p>
6750
6751<p>Use this option to specify the width and height of raw images whose
6752dimensions are unknown such as <code>GRAY</code>, <code>RGB</code>, or
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006753<code>CMYK</code>. In addition to width and height, use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> with an offset to skip any header information in the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006754image or tell the number of colors in a <code>MAP</code> image file, (e.g. -size
6755640x512+256).</p>
6756
6757<p>For Photo CD images, choose from these sizes:</p>
6758
6759<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006760192x128
6761384x256
6762768x512
67631536x1024
67643072x2048
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006765</pre>
6766
6767<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006768 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sketch"></a>-sketch <var>radius</var><br>-sketch <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var>+<var>angle</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006769</div>
6770
6771<p class="magick-description">simulate a pencil sketch.</p>
6772
6773<p>Sketch with the given radius, standard deviation (sigma), and angle. The
6774angle given is the angle toward which the image is sketched. That is the
6775direction people would consider the object is coming from. </p>
6776
6777<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006778 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="smush"></a>-smush <var>offset</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006779</div>
6780
6781<p class="magick-description">smush an image sequence together.</p>
6782
6783<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006784 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="snaps"></a>-snaps <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006785</div>
6786
6787<p class="magick-description">Set the number of screen snapshots.</p>
6788
6789<p>Use this option to grab more than one image from the X server screen, to create an animation sequence.</p>
6790
6791<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006792 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="solarize"></a>-solarize <var>threshold</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006793</div>
6794
6795<p class="magick-description">negate all pixels above the threshold level.</p>
6796
6797<p>Specify <var>factor</var> as the percent threshold of the intensity (0 - 99.9%).</p>
6798
6799<p>This option produces a <var>solarization</var> effect seen when
6800exposing a photographic film to light during the development process.</p>
6801
6802<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006803 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="sparse-color"></a>-sparse-color <var>method</var> '<var>x</var>,<var>y</var> <var>color</var> ...'</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006804</div>
6805
6806<p class="magick-description"> color the given image using the specified points of color, and filling the other intervening colors using the given methods. </p>
6807
6808
6809<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
6810 <tbody>
6811 <tr>
6812 <th style="width: 8%">Method</th>
6813 <th>Description</th>
6814 </tr>
6815
6816 <tr>
6817 <td>barycentric</td>
6818 <td>three point triangle of color given 3 points.
6819 Giving only 2 points will form a linear gradient between those points.
6820 The gradient generated extends beyond the triangle created by those
6821 3 points. </td>
6822 </tr>
6823
6824 <tr>
6825 <td>bilinear</td>
6826 <td>Like barycentric but for 4 points. Less than 4 points
6827 fall back to barycentric. </td>
6828 </tr>
6829 <tr>
6830 <td>voronoi</td>
6831 <td>Simply map each pixel to the to nearest color point
6832 given. The result are polygonal 'cells' of solid color. </td>
6833 </tr>
6834
6835 <tr>
6836 <td>shepards</td>
6837 <td>Colors points biased on the ratio of inverse distance
6838 squared. Generating spots of color in a sea of the average of
6839 colors. </td>
6840 </tr>
6841
6842 <tr>
6843 <td>inverse</td>
6844 <td>Colors points biased on the ratio of inverse distance.
6845 This generates sharper points of color rather than rounded spots of
6846 '<code>shepards</code>' Generating spots of color in a sea of the
6847 average of colors. </td>
6848 </tr>
6849
6850 </tbody>
6851</table>
6852
6853<p>The points are placed according to the images location on the virtual
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006854canvas (<a href="command-line-options.html#page">-page</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">-repage</a>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006855offset), and do not actually have to exist on the given image, but may be
6856some point beyond the edge of the image. All points are floating point values.
6857</p>
6858
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006859<p>Only the color channels defined by the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> are
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006860modified, which means that by default matte/alpha transparency channel is not
6861effected. Typically transparency channel is turned off either before or after
6862the operation. </p>
6863
6864<p>Of course if some color points are transparent to generate a transparent
6865gradient, then the image also requires transparency enabled to store the
6866values. </p>
6867
6868<p>All the above methods when given a single point of color will replace all
6869the colors in the image with the color given, regardless of the point. This is
6870logical, and provides an alternative technique to recolor an image to some
6871default value. </p>
6872
6873
6874<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006875 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="splice"></a>-splice <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006876</div>
6877
6878<p class="magick-description">Splice the current background color into the image.</p>
6879
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006880<p>This will add rows and columns of the current <a href="command-line-options.html#background">-background</a> color into the given image according to the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006881given <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> geometry setting. See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Essentially <a href="command-line-options.html#splice">-splice</a> will divide the
6882image into four quadrants, separating them by the inserted rows and columns.
6883</p>
6884
6885<p>If a dimension of geometry is zero no rows or columns will be added for that
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006886dimension. Similarly using a zero offset with the appropriate <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> setting will add rows and columns to the edges of
6887the image, padding the image only along that one edge. Edge padding is what <a href="command-line-options.html#splice">-splice</a> is most commonly used for. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006888
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006889<p>If the exact same <var>geometry</var> and <a href="command-line-options.html#gravity">-gravity</a> is later used with <a href="command-line-options.html#chop">-chop</a> the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006890added added all splices removed. </p>
6891
6892<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006893 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="spread"></a>-spread <var>amount</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006894</div>
6895
6896<p class="magick-description">displace image pixels by a random amount.</p>
6897
6898<p>The argument <var>amount</var> defines the size of the
6899neighborhood around each pixel from which to choose a candidate pixel to
6900swap.</p>
6901
6902<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006903 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="statistic"></a>-statistic <var>type</var> <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006904</div>
6905
6906<p class="magick-description">replace each pixel with corresponding statistic from the neighborhood.</p>
6907
6908<p>Choose from these statistic types:</p>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006909<dl class="dl-horizontal">
6910<dt>Gradient</dt><dd>maximum difference (max - min) value in neighborhood</dd>
6911<dt>Maximum</dt><dd>maximum value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6912<dt>Minimum</dt><dd>minimum value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6913<dt>Mean</dt><dd>average value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6914<dt>Median</dt><dd>median value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6915<dt>Mode</dt><dd>mode (most frequent) value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6916<dt>Nonpeak</dt><dd>value just before or after the median value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6917<dt>RMS</dt><dd>root mean square value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6918<dt>StandardDeviation</dt><dd> standard deviation value per channel in neighborhood</dd>
6919</dl>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006920
6921<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006922 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="stegano"></a>-stegano <var>offset</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006923</div>
6924
6925<p class="magick-description">hide watermark within an image.</p>
6926
6927<p>Use an offset to start the image hiding some number of pixels from the
6928beginning of the image. Note this offset and the image size. You will need
6929this information to recover the steganographic image (e.g. display -size
6930320x256+35 stegano:image.png).</p>
6931
6932<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006933 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="stereo"></a>-stereo <var>+x</var>{<var>+y</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006934</div>
6935
6936<p class="magick-description">composite two images to create a red / cyan stereo anaglyph.</p>
6937
6938<p>The left side of the stereo pair (second image) is saved as the red channel of the output image. The right side (first image) is saved as the green and blue channels. Red-green stereo glasses are required to properly view the stereo image.</p>
6939
6940<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006941 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="storage-type"></a>-storage-type <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006942</div>
6943
6944<p class="magick-description">pixel storage type. Here are the valid types:</p>
6945
6946<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006947char unsigned characters
6948double doubles
6949float floats
6950integer integers
6951long longs
6952quantum pixels in the native depth of your ImageMagick distribution
6953short unsigned shorts
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006954</pre>
6955
6956<p>Float and double types are normalized from 0.0 to 1.0 otherwise the pixels
6957values range from 0 to the maximum value the storage type can support.</p>
6958
6959<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006960 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="stretch"></a>-stretch <var>fontStretch</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006961</div>
6962
6963<p class="magick-description">Set a type of stretch style for fonts.</p>
6964
6965<p>This setting suggests a type of stretch that ImageMagick should try to
6966apply to the currently selected font family. Select <var>fontStretch</var> from the following.</p>
6967
6968<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006969Any
6970Condensed
6971Expanded
6972ExtraCondensed
6973ExtraExpanded
6974Normal
6975SemiCondensed
6976SemiExpanded
6977UltraCondensed
6978UltraExpanded
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006979</pre>
6980
6981<p>To print a complete list of stretch types, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
6982stretch</a>.</p>
6983
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00006984<p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="command-line-options.html#font">-font</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#family">-family</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#style">-style</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006985
6986<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006987 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="strip"></a>-strip</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006988</div>
6989
6990<p class="magick-description">strip the image of any profiles or comments.</p>
6991
6992<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00006993 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="stroke"></a>-stroke <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00006994</div>
6995
6996<p class="magick-description">color to use when stroking a graphic primitive.</p>
6997
6998<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
6999
7000<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
7001
7002<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007003 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="strokewidth"></a>-strokewidth <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007004</div>
7005
7006<p class="magick-description">set the stroke width.</p>
7007
7008<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
7009
7010<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007011 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="style"></a>-style <var>fontStyle</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007012</div>
7013
7014<p class="magick-description">Set a font style for text.</p>
7015
7016<p>This setting suggests a font style that ImageMagick should try to apply to
7017the currently selected font family. Select <var>fontStyle</var> from
7018the following.</p>
7019
7020<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007021Any
7022Italic
7023Normal
7024Oblique
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007025</pre>
7026
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007027<p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="command-line-options.html#font">-font</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#family">-family</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#stretch">-stretch</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007028
7029<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007030 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="subimage-search"></a>-subimage-search</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007031</div>
7032
7033<p class="magick-description">search for subimage.</p>
7034
7035<p>This option is required to have compare search for the best match location
7036of a small image within a larger image. This search will produce two images
7037(or two frames). The first is the "difference" image and the second will
7038be the "match score" image.</p>
7039
7040<p>The "match-score" image is smaller containing a pixel for ever possible
7041position of the top-left corner of the given sub-image. that is its size will
7042be the size of the larger_image - sub_image + 1. The brightest location in
7043this image is the location s the locate on the best match that is also
7044reported. Note that this may or may not be a perfect match, and the actual
7045brightness will reflect this. Other bright 'peaks' can be used to locate other
7046possible matching locations. </p>
7047
7048<p>Note that the search will try to compare the sub-image at every possible
7049location in the larger image, as such it can be very slow. The smaller the
7050sub-image the faster this search is. </p>
7051
7052
7053<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007054 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="swap"></a>-swap <var>index,index</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007055</div>
7056
7057<p class="magick-description">Swap the positions of two images in the image sequence.</p>
7058
7059<p>For example, <a href="command-line-options.html#swap">-swap 0,2</a> swaps the first and the third
7060images in the current image sequence. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#swap">+swap</a> to switch
7061the last two images in the sequence.</p>
7062
7063<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007064 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="swirl"></a>-swirl <var>degrees</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007065</div>
7066
7067<p class="magick-description">swirl image pixels about the center.</p>
7068
7069<p><var>Degrees</var> defines the tightness of the swirl.</p>
7070
7071<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007072 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="synchronize"></a>-synchronize</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007073</div>
7074
7075<p class="magick-description">synchronize image to storage device.</p>
7076
7077<p>Set to "true" to ensure all image data is fully flushed and synchronized
7078to disk. There is a performance penalty, but the benefits include ensuring a
7079valid image file in the event of a system crash and early reporting if there
7080is not enough disk space for the image pixel cache.</p>
7081
7082<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007083 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="taint"></a>-taint</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007084</div>
7085
7086<p class="magick-description">Mark the image as modified.</p>
7087
7088<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007089 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="text-font"></a>-text-font <var>name</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007090</div>
7091
7092<p class="magick-description">font for writing fixed-width text.</p>
7093
7094<p>Specifies the name of the preferred font to use in fixed (typewriter style)
7095formatted text. The default is 14 point <var>Courier</var>.</p>
7096
7097<p>You can tag a font to specify whether it is a PostScript, TrueType, or
7098OPTION1 font. For example, <code>Courier.ttf</code> is a TrueType font and
7099<code>x:fixed</code> is OPTION1.</p>
7100
7101<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007102 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="texture"></a>-texture <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007103</div>
7104
7105<p class="magick-description">name of texture to tile onto the image background.</p>
7106
7107<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007108 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="threshold"></a>-threshold <var>value</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007109</div>
7110
7111<!-- {<var>green,blue,opacity</var>}
7112<p>If the green or blue value is omitted, these channels use the same value as
7113the first one provided. If all three color values are the same, the result is
7114a bi-level image. If the opacity threshold is omitted, OpaqueOpacity is used
7115and any partially transparent pixel becomes fully transparent.</p>
7116-->
7117
7118<p class="magick-description">Apply simultaneous black/white threshold to the image.</p>
7119
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007120<p>Any pixel values (more specifically, those channels set using <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a>) that exceed the specified threshold are reassigned the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007121maximum channel value, while all other values are assigned the minimum.</p>
7122
7123<p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer
7124value corresponding to the desired channel value. When given as an integer,
7125the minimum attainable value is 0 (corresponding to black when all channels
7126are affected), but the maximum value (corresponding to white) is that of the
7127<code>quantum depth</code> of the particular build of ImageMagick, and is
7128therefore dependent on the installation. For that reason, a reasonable
7129recommendation for most applications is to specify the threshold values as
7130a percentage. </p>
7131
7132<p> The following would force pixels with red values above 50% to have 100%
7133red values, while those at or below 50% red would be set to 0 in the red
7134channel. The green, blue, and alpha channels (if present) would be unchanged.
7135</p>
7136
7137<pre>
7138convert in.png -channel red -threshold 50% out.png
7139</pre>
7140
7141<p>As (possibly) impractical but instructive examples, the following would
7142generate an all-black and an all-white image with the same dimensions as the
7143input image.</p>
7144
7145
7146<pre>
7147convert in.png -threshold 100% black.png
7148convert in.png -threshold -1 white.png
7149</pre>
7150
7151<p>Note that the values of the transparency channel is treated as 'matte'
7152values (0 is opaque) and not as 'alpha' values (0 is transparent).</p>
7153
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007154<p> See also <a href="command-line-options.html#black-threshold">‑black‑threshold</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#white-threshold">‑white‑threshold</a>.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007155</p>
7156
7157<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007158 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="thumbnail"></a>-thumbnail <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007159</div>
7160
7161<p class="magick-description">Create a thumbnail of the image.</p>
7162
7163<p>This is similar to <a href="command-line-options.html#resize">-resize</a>, except it is optimized
7164for speed and any image profile, other than a color profile, is removed to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007165reduce the thumbnail size. To strip the color profiles as well, add <a href="command-line-options.html#strip">-strip</a> just before of after this option.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007166
7167<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
7168
7169<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007170 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="tile"></a>-tile <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007171</div>
7172
7173<p class="magick-description">Set the tile image used for filling a subsequent graphic primitive.</p>
7174
7175<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007176 <h3 class="magick-header">-tile <var>geometry</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007177</div>
7178
7179<p class="magick-description">Specify the layout of images.</p>
7180
7181<p>See <a href="command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
7182
7183<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007184 <h3 class="magick-header">-tile</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007185</div>
7186
7187<p class="magick-description">Specifies that a subsequent composite operation is repeated across and down image.</p>
7188
7189<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007190 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="tile-offset"></a>-tile-offset {<var>+-</var>}<var>x</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007191</div>
7192
7193<p class="magick-description">Specify the offset for tile images, relative to the background image it is tiled on.</p>
7194
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007195<p>This should be set before the tiling image is set by <a href="command-line-options.html#tile">-tile</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#texture">-texture</a>, or directly applied for
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007196creating a tiled canvas using <code>TILE:</code> or <code>PATTERN:</code> input
7197formats. </p>
7198
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007199<p>Internally ImageMagick does a <a href="command-line-options.html#roll">-roll</a> of the tile image
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007200by the arguments given when the tile image is set. </p>
7201
7202<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007203 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="tint"></a>-tint <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007204</div>
7205
7206<p class="magick-description">Tint the image with the fill color.</p>
7207
7208<p>Tint the image with the fill color.</p>
7209
7210<p>Specify the amount of tinting as a percentage. Pure colors like black,
7211white red, yellow, will not be affected by -tint. Only mid-range colors such
7212as the various shades of grey.</p>
7213
7214<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007215 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="title"></a>-title <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007216</div>
7217
7218<p class="magick-description">Assign a title to displayed image.", "animate", "display", "montage</p>
7219
7220<p>Use this option to assign a specific title to the image. This assigned to
7221the image window and is typically displayed in the window title bar.
7222Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, Exif data,
7223or other image attribute by embedding special format characters described
7224under the <a href="command-line-options.html#format">-format</a> option.</p>
7225
7226<p>For example,</p>
7227
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007228<pre>
7229-title "%m:%f %wx%h"
7230</pre>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007231
7232<p>produces an image title of <code>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</code> for an image
7233titled <code>bird.miff</code> and whose width is 512 and height is 480.</p>
7234
7235
7236<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007237 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="transform"></a>-transform</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007238</div>
7239
7240<p class="magick-description">transform the image.</p>
7241
7242<p>This option applies the transformation matrix from a previous <a href="command-line-options.html#affine">-affine</a> option.</p>
7243
7244<pre>
7245convert -affine 2,2,-2,2,0,0 -transform bird.ppm bird.jpg
7246</pre>
7247
7248
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007249<p>This operator has been now been superseded by the <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a> '<code>AffineProjection</code>' method. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007250
7251
7252<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007253 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="transparent"></a>-transparent <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007254</div>
7255
7256<p class="magick-description">Make this color transparent within the image.</p>
7257
7258<p>The <var>color</var> argument is defined using the format
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007259described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option. The <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> setting can be used to match and replace colors similar to the one
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007260given. </p>
7261
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007262<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent">+transparent</a> to invert the pixels matched.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007263that is make all non-matching colors transparent. </p>
7264
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007265<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#opaque">-opaque</a> operator is exactly the same as <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent">-transparent</a> but replaces the matching color with the
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007266current <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> color setting, rather than transparent.
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007267However the <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent">-transparent</a> operator also ensures
7268that the image has an alpha channel enabled, as per "<code><a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a> set</code>", and does not require you to modify the <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">-channel</a> to enable alpha channel handling. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007269
7270<p>Note that this does not define the color as being the 'transparency color'
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007271used for color-mapped image formats, such as GIF. For that use <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent-color">-transparent-color</a> </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007272
7273
7274<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007275 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="transparent-color"></a>-transparent-color <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007276</div>
7277
7278<p class="magick-description">Set the transparent color.</p>
7279
7280<p>Sometimes this is used for saving to image formats such as
7281GIF and PNG8 which uses this color to represent boolean transparency. This
7282does not make a color transparent, it only defines what color the transparent
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007283color is in the color palette of the saved image. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent">-transparent</a> to make an opaque color transparent.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007284
7285<p>This option allows you to have both an opaque visible color, as well as a
7286transparent color of the same color value without conflict. That is, you can
7287use the same color for both the transparent and opaque color areas within an
7288image. This, in turn, frees to you to select a transparent color that is
7289appropriate when an image is displayed by an application that does not handle a
7290transparent color index, while allowing ImageMagick to correctly handle images of this
7291type. </p>
7292
7293<p>The default transparent color is <code>#00000000</code>, which is fully transparent black.</p>
7294
7295<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007296 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="transpose"></a>-transpose</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007297</div>
7298
7299<p class="magick-description">Mirror the image along the top-left to bottom-right diagonal.</p>
7300
7301<p> This option mathematically transposes the pixel array. It is equivalent to the sequence <code>-flip -rotate 90</code>.
7302</p>
7303
7304<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007305 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="transverse"></a>-transverse</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007306</div>
7307
7308<p class="magick-description">Mirror the image along the images bottom-left top-right diagonal. Equivalent to the operations <code>-flop -rotate 90</code>.</p>
7309
7310
7311<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007312 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="treedepth"></a>-treedepth <var>value</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007313</div>
7314
7315<p class="magick-description">tree depth for the color reduction algorithm.</p>
7316
7317<p>Normally, this integer value is zero or one. A value of zero or one causes
7318the use of an optimal tree depth for the color reduction algorithm.</p>
7319
7320<p>An optimal depth generally allows the best representation of the source
7321image with the fastest computational speed and the least amount of memory.
7322However, the default depth is inappropriate for some images. To assure the
7323best representation, try values between 2 and 8 for this parameter. Refer to
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007324the <a href="quantize.html">color reduction algorithm</a> for more details.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007325
7326<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a> or <a href="command-line-options.html#monochrome">-monochrome</a>
7327option, or writing to an image format which requires color reduction, is
7328required for this option to take effect.</p>
7329
7330<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007331 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="trim"></a>-trim</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007332</div>
7333
7334<p class="magick-description">trim an image.</p>
7335
7336<p>This option removes any edges that are exactly the same color as the corner
7337pixels. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz</a> to make <a href="command-line-options.html#trim">-trim</a> remove
7338edges that are nearly the same color as the corner pixels.</p>
7339
7340<p>The page or virtual canvas information of the image is preserved allowing
7341you to extract the result of the <a href="command-line-options.html#trim">-trim</a> operation from the
7342image. Use a <a href="command-line-options.html#repage">+repage</a> to remove the virtual canvas page
7343information if it is unwanted.</p>
7344
7345<p>If the trimmed image 'disappears' an warning is produced, and a special
7346single pixel transparent 'missed' image is returned, in the same way as when a
7347<a href="command-line-options.html#crop">-crop</a> operation 'misses' the image proper. </p>
7348
7349
7350<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007351 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="type"></a>-type <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007352</div>
7353
7354<p class="magick-description">the image type.</p> <p>Choose from: <code>Bilevel</code>,
7355<code>Grayscale</code>, <code>GrayscaleMatte</code>, <code>Palette</code>,
7356<code>PaletteMatte</code>, <code>TrueColor</code>, <code>TrueColorMatte</code>,
7357<code>ColorSeparation</code>, or <code>ColorSeparationMatte</code>.</p>
7358
7359<p>Normally, when a format supports different subformats such as grayscale and
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007360truecolor, the encoder will try to choose an efficient subformat. The <a href="command-line-options.html#type">-type</a> option can be used to override this behavior. For
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007361example, to prevent a JPEG from being written in grayscale format even though
7362only gray pixels are present, use.</p>
7363
7364<pre>
7365convert bird.png -type TrueColor bird.jpg
7366</pre>
7367
7368<p>Similarly, use <a href="command-line-options.html#type">-type TrueColorMatte</a> to force the
7369encoder to write an alpha channel even though the image is opaque, if the
7370output format supports transparency.</p>
7371
7372<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#type">-type optimize</a> to ensure the image is written in the smallest possible file size.</p>
7373
7374<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007375 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="undercolor"></a>-undercolor <var>color</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007376</div>
7377
7378<p class="magick-description">set the color of the annotation bounding box.</p>
7379
7380<p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="command-line-options.html#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
7381
7382<p>See <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
7383
7384
7385<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007386 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="update"></a>-update <var>seconds</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007387</div>
7388
7389<p class="magick-description">detect when image file is modified and redisplay.</p>
7390
7391<p>Suppose that while you are displaying an image the file that is currently
7392displayed is over-written. <code>display</code> will automagically detect that
7393the input file has been changed and update the displayed image
7394accordingly.</p>
7395
7396
7397<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007398 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="unique-colors"></a>-unique-colors</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007399</div>
7400
7401<p class="magick-description">discard all but one of any pixel color.</p>
7402
7403
7404<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007405 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="units"></a>-units <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007406</div>
7407
7408<p class="magick-description">the units of image resolution.</p>
7409
7410<p>Choose from: <code>Undefined</code>, <code>PixelsPerInch</code>, or
7411<code>PixelsPerCentimeter</code>. This option is normally used in conjunction
7412with the <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a> option.</p>
7413
7414
7415<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007416 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="unsharp"></a>-unsharp <var>radius</var><br>-unsharp <var>radius</var>x<var>sigma</var>{<var>+gain</var>}{<var>+threshold</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007417</div>
7418
7419<p class="magick-description">sharpen the image with an unsharp mask operator.</p>
7420
7421<p>The <a href="command-line-options.html#unsharp">-unsharp</a> option sharpens an image. The image is
7422convolved with a Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation
7423(sigma). For reasonable results, radius should be larger than sigma. Use
7424a radius of 0 to have the method select a suitable radius.</p>
7425
7426<p>The parameters are:</p>
7427
7428<pre>
7429 radius The radius of the Gaussian, in pixels, not counting the center
7430 pixel (default 0).
7431 sigma The standard deviation of the Gaussian, in pixels (default 1.0).
7432 gain The fraction of the difference between the original and the blur
7433 image that is added back into the original (default 1.0).
7434 threshold The threshold, as a fraction of <var>QuantumRange</var>, needed to apply the
7435 difference amount (default 0.05).
7436</pre>
7437
7438
7439<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007440 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="verbose"></a>-verbose</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007441</div>
7442
7443<p class="magick-description">print detailed information about the image when this option precedes the <a href="command-line-options.html#identify">-identify</a> option or <code>info:</code>.</p>
7444
7445
7446<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007447 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="version"></a>-version</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007448</div>
7449
7450<p class="magick-description">print ImageMagick version string and exit.</p>
7451
7452
7453<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007454 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="view"></a>-view <var>string</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007455</div>
7456
7457<p class="magick-description">FlashPix viewing parameters.</p>
7458
7459
7460<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007461 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="vignette"></a>-vignette <var>radius</var>{x<var>sigma</var>}{<var>+-</var>}<var>x</var>{<var>+-</var>}<var>y</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007462</div>
7463
7464<p class="magick-description">soften the edges of the image in vignette style.</p>
7465
7466<p>The vignette effect rolloff is controlled by radiusxsigma. For nominal rolloff, this would be set to 0xsigma. A value of 0x0 will produce a circle/ellipse with no rolloff. The arguments x and y control the size of the circle. Larger values decrease the radii and smaller values increase the radii. Values of +0+0 will generate a circle/ellipse the same size as the image. The default values for x and y are 10% of the corresponding image dimension. Thus, the radii will be decreased by 10%, i.e., the diameters of the circle/ellipse will be 80% of the corresponding image dimension.</p>
7467
7468<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007469 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="virtual-pixel"></a>-virtual-pixel <var>method</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007470</div>
7471
7472<p class="magick-description">Specify contents of <var>virtual pixels</var>.</p>
7473
7474<p>This option defines what color source should be used if and when a color
7475lookup completely 'misses' the source image. The color(s) that appear to
7476surround the source image. Generally this color is derived from the source
7477image, but could also be set to a specify background color. </p>
7478
7479<p>Choose from these methods:</p>
7480
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007481<dl class="dl-horizontal">
7482<dt>background</dt><dd>the area surrounding the image is the background color</dd>
7483<dt>black</dt><dd>the area surrounding the image is black</dd>
7484<dt>checker-tile</dt><dd>alternate squares with image and background color</dd>
7485<dt>dither</dt><dd>non-random 32x32 dithered pattern</dd>
7486<dt>edge</dt><dd>extend the edge pixel toward infinity</dd>
7487<dt>gray</dt><dd>the area surrounding the image is gray</dd>
7488<dt>horizontal-tile</dt><dd>horizontally tile the image, background color above/below</dd>
7489<dt>horizontal-tile-edge</dt><dd>horizontally tile the image and replicate the side edge pixels</dd>
7490<dt>mirror</dt><dd>mirror tile the image</dd>
7491<dt>random</dt><dd>choose a random pixel from the image</dd>
7492<dt>tile</dt><dd>tile the image (default)</dd>
7493<dt>transparent</dt><dd>the area surrounding the image is transparent blackness</dd>
7494<dt>vertical-tile</dt><dd>vertically tile the image, sides are background color</dd>
7495<dt>vertical-tile-edge</dt><dd>vertically tile the image and replicate the side edge pixels</dd>
7496<dt>white</dt><dd>the area surrounding the image is white</dd>
7497</dl>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007498
7499<p>The default value is "edge".</p>
7500
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007501<p>This most important for distortion operators such as <a href="command-line-options.html#distort">-distort</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#implode">-implode</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#fx">-fx</a>.
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007502However it also effects operations that may access pixels just outside the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007503image proper, such as <a href="command-line-options.html#convolve">-convolve</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#blur">-blur</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#sharpen">-sharpen</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007504
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007505<p>To print a complete list of virtual pixel types, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list virtual-pixel</a> option.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007506
7507
7508<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007509 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="visual"></a>-visual <var>type</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007510</div>
7511
7512<p class="magick-description">Animate images using this X visual type.", 'animate', 'display'</p>
7513
7514<p>Choose from these visual classes:</p>
7515
7516<pre>
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007517StaticGray
7518GrayScale
7519StaticColor
7520PseudoColor
7521TrueColor
7522DirectColor
7523default
7524visual id
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007525</pre>
7526
7527<p>The X server must support the visual you choose, otherwise an error occurs.
7528If a visual is not specified, the visual class that can display the most
7529simultaneous colors on the default screen is chosen.</p>
7530
7531
7532<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007533 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="watermark"></a>-watermark <var>brightness</var>x<var>saturation</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007534</div>
7535
7536<p class="magick-description">Watermark an image using the given percentages of brightness and saturation.</p>
7537
7538<p>Take a grayscale image (with alpha mask) and modify the destination image's
7539brightness according to watermark image's grayscale value and the
7540<var>brightness</var> percentage. The destinations color saturation
7541attribute is just direct modified by the <var>saturation</var>
7542percentage, which defaults to 100 percent (no color change). </p>
7543
7544
7545<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007546 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="wave"></a>-wave <var>amplitude</var><br>-wave <var>amplitude</var>x<var>wavelength</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007547</div>
7548
7549<p class="magick-description">Shear the columns of an image into a sine wave.</p>
7550
7551<p>Specify <var>amplitude</var> and <var>wavelength</var>
7552of the wave.</p>
7553
7554<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007555 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="weight"></a>-weight <var>fontWeight</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007556</div>
7557
7558<p class="magick-description">Set a font weight for text.</p>
7559
7560<p>This setting suggests a font weight that ImageMagick should try to apply to
7561the currently selected font family. Use a positive integer for
7562<var>fontWeight</var> or select from the following.</p>
7563
7564<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007565 <col width="25%">
7566 <col width="75%">
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007567 <thead>
7568 <tr>
7569 <th><var>fontWeight</var></th>
7570 <th>Description</th>
7571 </tr>
7572 </thead>
7573 <tbody>
7574 <tr><td>All </td>
7575 <td>No effect. </td></tr>
7576 <tr><td>Bold </td>
7577 <td>Same as <var>fontWeight</var> = 700.</td></tr>
7578 <tr><td>Bolder </td>
7579 <td>Add 100 to font weight if currently ≤ 800.</td></tr>
7580 <tr><td>Lighter </td>
7581 <td>Subtract 100 to font weight if currently ≤ 100.</td></tr>
7582 <tr><td>Normal </td>
7583 <td>Same as <var>fontWeight</var> = 400.</td></tr>
7584 </tbody>
7585 </table>
7586
7587<p>To print a complete list of weight types, use <a href="command-line-options.html#list">-list
7588weight</a>.</p>
7589
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007590<p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="command-line-options.html#font">-font</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#family">-family</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#stretch">-stretch</a>, and <a href="command-line-options.html#style">-style</a>. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007591
7592<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007593 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="white-point"></a>-white-point <var>x,y</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007594</div>
7595
7596<p class="magick-description">chromaticity white point.</p>
7597
7598<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007599 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="white-threshold"></a>-white-threshold <var>value</var>{<var>%</var>}</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007600</div>
7601
7602<p class="magick-description">Force to white all pixels above the threshold while leaving all pixels at or below the threshold unchanged.</p>
7603
7604<p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer
7605value within [0, <var>QuantumRange</var>] corresponding to the
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007606desired <a href="command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a> value. See <a href="command-line-options.html#threshold">‑threshold</a>for more details on thresholds and resulting values. </p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007607
7608<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007609 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="window"></a>-window <var>id</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007610</div>
7611
7612<p class="magick-description">Make the image the background of a window.", 'animate', 'display'</p>
7613
7614<p><var>id</var> can be a window id or name. Specify <code>root</code>
7615to select X's root window as the target window.</p>
7616
7617<p>By default the image is tiled onto the background of the target window. If
7618<code>backdrop</code> or <a href="command-line-options.html#geometry">-resize</a> are specified, the
7619image is surrounded by the background color. Refer to <code>X RESOURCES</code>
7620for details.</p>
7621
7622<p>The image will not display on the root window if the image has more unique
cristy82a2ff22015-05-12 16:41:32 +00007623colors than the target window colormap allows. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#colors">-colors</a> to reduce the number of colors.</p>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007624
7625<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007626 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="window-group"></a>-window-group</h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007627</div>
7628
7629<p class="magick-description">specify the window group.</p>
7630
7631<div style="margin: auto;">
cristy29dc8652015-05-12 16:26:21 +00007632 <h3 class="magick-header"><a id="write"></a>-write <var>filename</var></h3>
cristyd2432012015-05-04 23:15:15 +00007633</div>
7634
7635<p class="magick-description">write an image sequence.</p>
7636
7637<p>The image sequence preceding the <a href="command-line-options.html#write">-write</a> <var>filename</var> option is written out, and processing continues with the same image in its current state if there are additional options. To restore the image to its original state after writing it, use the <a href="command-line-options.html#write">+write</a> <var>filename</var> option.</p>
7638
7639<p>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#compress">-compress</a> to specify the type of image compression.</p>
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