Using Other ImageMagick Tools

Conclusion

In this chapter, you looked at the various command-line and graphical tools that ImageMagick provides. The convert command is the focus of most of this book, so refer to other chapters for more information about it. Specifically, see Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5, and Chapter 6.

ImageMagick can perform a lot of useful functions with the commands it provides, including creating montages of images with a large variety of formatting options, displaying your images for you, capturing windows from your X Windows session, and displaying images as the background in those windows on your X session. ImageMagick can perform many functions that aren’t covered by the convert command, and this chapter has shown you a few of them. I could show you other details about these commands, but it would take hundreds of pages to do so. I recommend you refer to the ImageMagick documentation at http://www.imagemagick.org if you need more specific details of a command that you’ve seen in this chapter.

The next chapter shows you some of the more artistic transformations that ImageMagick can perform, and Chapter 6 shows you the remainder of the image transformations ImageMagick offers. Chapter 7 covers how to draw on existing images and create new images with ImageMagick; then I’ll move introduce four examples of programmer interfaces to ImageMagick, so read on for more details.