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ImageMagick

ImageMagick - 5.1.1

collection of tools to read, write, and manipulate images

All Time: (4.1)
Version 5.1.1: (4.2)
Selected Version: 5.1.1
Release Date: 2000-02-04
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 5.1.1): 2,382
Downloads (all versions): 53,102

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Product Description:

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Photo CD. With ImageMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do: Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG). Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image. Create a montage of image thumbnails. Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web. Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence. Create a composite image by combining several separate images. Draw shapes or text on an image. Decorate an image with a border or frame. Describe the format and characteristics of an image.

What's new in this version:

ImageMagick has a new logo (contributed by Ofer Tenenbaum). Requests for all or part of a pixel row, or multiple complete pixel rows, are mapped directly to the underlying image in memory, or memory mapped from a disk file, avoiding performance-robbing pixel copying. Requested rectangular regions which are narrower than the image width must still be copied to a scratch space. Support for WBMP, Wireless Bitmap (level 0) images (contributed by Milan Votava) Image sizes are limited by physical memory plus available disk space on the machine, or the file addressing limits of the operating system, whichever comes first. This means that if you can figure out how to build a big enough machine (and have plenty of time) terabyte images can be processed. An image cache subsystem and API are provided to map portions (as small as one pixel or as large as the entire image) of images into memory and to save any updates. Memory mapping is used to access files. This is the most efficient access mechanism available. DirectColor pixels are now stored in an efficient 32-bit structure (or 64-bit when QuantumLeap is enabled).PseudoColor indices are now stored separately from the DirectColor pixels (PseudoColor and DirectColor representations are still available simultaneously). In-memory run-length encoding is eliminated. Compressed images are decompressed and compressed incrementally in order to limit memory consumption.Lots of minor C API fixes and improvements. Cache threshold setting for setting the boundary between use of RAM or RAM + disk when processing an image. The identify utility now displays precise read-time values. The Win32 build environment (now called "VisualMagick") is completely re-done and supports building both multi-thread DLL as well as static libraries.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS Classic

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Version 5.1.1:
Overall Rating: (4.2) Features: (5.0) Support: (4.0)
Ease of Use: (2.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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ImageMagick CommentaryVery useful - Version: 6.4.6, 11/23/2008 01:48PM PST

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OJB
I use ImageMagick for processing files uploaded to web sites and web databases. It can process files, create thumbnails, generate image information, enhance, resize, etc, etc. The web site is the user interface. This isn't a substitute for Photoshop. Its completely different and a lot more useful for the type of web applications I am creating. Its more a programmer's tool than a user's tool. I think we should keep these Unix tools on VersionTracker. The best thing about the Mac is it can do the flashy GUI stuff (Photoshop) and the cool Unix stuff (ImageMagick) equally well. I want both!
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ImageMagick CommentaryI WISH SOMEONE WOULD CREATE A GUI - Version: 6.4.5, 10/26/2008 06:52AM PST

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roro01
This software seems extremely useful but, unfortunately, many of us are not familiar with UNIX and Command Line Interface.
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ImageMagick CommentaryArchaic stuff - Version: 6.3.9, 3/9/2008 07:05PM PST

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RHenriques
Bytesmiths, using photoshop, I can spend a couple of seconds to do any batch processing with it!! And I can prepare very complex batch actions visually. Better, I don't need to pay attention to a language syntax or to a command spelling error!
The true great apps are those that can do complex stuff in an easy way for users. Imagemagick can be a great curiosity for programmers but will always be a niche for those who like to delirate by being able to rotate an image writing 5 words and a couple of characters. I don't have time for that so I like to rotate mine by drooping a menu, sorry. I use extensively open source software and I always encourage the groups of developers to pay as much attention to the GUI's as to the quality of underlying code. Some projects are moving toward this way of thinking and are experiencing success, such as NEOOFFICE, GIMP, GRASS, QGIS, every flavor of LInux operative systems and so on. These code only "apps" are great as prototypes to test code but are archaic applications as user experience.
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