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Getting started with ImageMagick
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### Learn common ways to view and modify images with this lightweight image editor.
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Image by : opensource.com
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In a recent article about [lightweight image viewers][8], author Scott Nesbitt mentioned display, one of the components in [ImageMagick][9]. ImageMagick is not merely an image viewer—it offers a large number of utilities and options for image editing. This tutorial will explain more about using the **display** command and other command-line utilities in ImageMagick.
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With a number of excellent image editors available, you may be wondering why someone would choose a mainly non-GUI, command-line based program like ImageMagick. For one thing, it is rock-solid dependable. But an even bigger benefit is that it allows you to set up methods to edit a large number of images in a particular way.
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This introduction to common ImageMagick commands should get you started.
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### The display command
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Let's start with the command Scott mentioned: **display**. Say you have a directory with a lot of images you want to look at. Start **display** with the following command:
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```
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cd Pictures
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display *.JPG
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```
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This will load your JPG files sequentially in alphanumeric order, one at a time in a simple window. Left-clicking on an image brings up a simple, standalone menu (the only GUI feature you'll see in ImageMagick).
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### [display_menu.png][1]
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Here's what you'll find in the **display** menu:
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* **File** contains the options _Open, Next, Former, Select, Save, Print, Delete, New, Visual Directory_ , and _Quit_ . _Select _ picks a specific image file to display, _Visual Directory_ shows all of the files (not just the images) in the current working directory. If you want to scroll through all the selected images, you can use _Next_ and _Former_ , but it's easier to use their keyboard shortcuts (Spacebar for the next image and Backspace for the previous).
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* **Edit** offers _Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy_ , and _Paste_ , which are just auxiliary commands to more specific editing process. _Undo _ is especially useful when you're playing around with different edits to see what they do.
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* **View** has _Half Size, Original Size, Double Size, Resize, Apply, Refresh_ , and _Restore_ . These are mostly self-explanatory and, unless you save the image after applying one of them, the image file isn't changed. _Resize_ brings up a dialog to name a specific size either in pixels, with or without constrained dimensions, or a percentage. I'm not sure what _Apply _ does.
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* **Transform** shows _Crop, Chop, Flop, Flip, Rotate Right, Rotate Left, Rotate, Shear, Roll_ , and _Trim Edges_ . _Chop _ uses a click-drag operation to cut out a vertical or horizontal section of the image, pasting the edges together. The best way to learn how these features work is to play with them, rather than reading about them.
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* **Enhance** provides _Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Gamma, Spiff, Dull, Contrast Stretch, Sigmoidal Contrast, Normalize, Equalize, Negate, Grayscale, Map_ , and _Quantize_ . These are operations for color manipulation and adjusting brightness and contrast.
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* **Effects** has _Despeckle, Emboss, Reduce Noise, Add Noise, Sharpen, Blur, Threshold, Edge Detect, Spread, Shade, Raise_ , and _Segment_ . These are fairly standard image editing effects.
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* **F/X** options are _Solarize, Sepia Tone, Swirl, Implode, Vignette, Wave, Oil Paint_ , and _Charcoal Draw_ , also very common effects in image editors.
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* **Image Edit** contains _Annotate, Draw, Color, Matte, Composite, Add Border, Add Frame, Comment, Launch_ , and _Region of Interest_ . _Launch _ will open the current image in GIMP (in my Fedora at least). _Region of Interest_ allows you to select an area to apply editing; press Esc to deselect the region.
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* **Miscellany** offers _Image Info, Zoom Image, Show Preview, Show Histogram, Show Matte, Background, Slide Show_ , and _Preferences_ . _Show Preview_ seems interesting, but I struggled to get it to work.
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* **Help** shows _Overview, Browse Documentation_ , and _About Display_ . _Overview_ gives a lot of basic information about display and includes a large number of built-in keyboard equivalents for various commands and operations. In my Fedora, _Browse Documentation_ took me nowhere.
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Although **display**'s GUI interface provides a reasonably competent image editor, ImageMagick also provides 89 command-line options, many of which correspond to the menu items above. For example, if I'm displaying a directory of digital images that are larger than my screen size, rather than resizing them individually after they appear on my screen, I can specify:
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display -resize 50% *.JPG
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```
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Many of the operations in the menus above can also be done by adding an option in the command line. But there are others that aren't available from the menu, including **‑monochrome**, which converts the image to black and white (not grayscale), and **‑colors**, where you can specify how many colors to use in the image. For example, try these out:
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display -resize 50% -monochrome *.JPG
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```
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display -resize 50% -colors 8 *.JPG
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```
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These operations create interesting images. Try enhancing colors or making other edits after reducing colors. Remember, unless you save and overwrite them, the original files remain unchanged.
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### The convert command
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The **convert** command has 237 options—yes 237—that provide a wide range of things you can do (some of which display can also do). I'll only cover a few of them, mostly sticking with image manipulation. Two simple things you can do with **convert** would be:
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convert DSC_0001.JPG dsc0001.png
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convert *.bmp *.png
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The first command would convert a single file (DSC_0001) from JPG to PNG format without changing the original. The second would do this operation on all the BMP images in a directory.
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If you want to see the formats ImageMagick can work with, type:
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identify -list format
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```
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Let's pick through a few interesting ways we can use the **convert** command to manipulate images. Here is the general format for this command:
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convert inputfilename [options] outputfilename
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You can have multiple options, and they are done in the order they are arranged, from left to right.
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Here are a couple of simple options:
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convert monochrome_source.jpg -monochrome monochrome_example.jpg
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```
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### [monochrome_demo.jpg][2]
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convert DSC_0008.jpg -charcoal 1.2 charcoal_example.jpg
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```
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### [charcoal_demo.jpg][3]
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The **‑monochrome** option has no associated setting, but the **‑charcoal** variable needs an associated factor. In my experience, it needs to be a small number (even less than 1) to achieve something that resembles a charcoal drawing, otherwise you get pretty heavy blobs of black. Even so, the sharp edges in an image are quite distinct, unlike in a charcoal drawing.
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Now let's look at these:
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convert DSC_0032.JPG -edge 3 edge_demo.jpg
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convert DSC_0032.JPG -colors 4 reduced4_demo.jpg
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```
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convert DSC_0032.JPG -colors 4 -edge 3 reduced+edge_demo.jpg
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```
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### [reduced_demo.jpg][4]
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The original image is in the upper left. In the first command, I applied an **‑edge**option with a setting of 3 (see the upper-right image)—anything less than that was too subtle for my liking. In the second command (the lower-left image), we have reduced the number of colors to four, which doesn't look much different from the original. But look what happens when we combine these two in the third command (lower-right image)! Perhaps it's a bit garish, but who would have expected this result from the original image or either option on its own?
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The **‑canny** command provided another surprise. This is another kind of edge detector, called a "multi-stage algorithm." Using **‑canny** alone produces a mostly black image and some white lines. I followed that with a **‑negate** command:
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convert DSC_0049.jpg -canny 0x1 -negate canny_egret.jpg
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convert DSC_0023.jpg -canny 0x1 -negate canny_ship.jpg
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```
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### [canny_demos.jpg][5]
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It's a bit minimalist, but I think it resembles a pen-and-ink drawing, a rather remarkable difference from the original photos. It doesn't work well with all images; generally, it works best with images with sharp lines. Elements that are out of focus are likely to disappear; notice how the background sandbar in the egret picture doesn't show up because it is blurred. Also notice in the ship picture, while most edges show up very well, without colors we lose the gestalt of the picture, so perhaps this could be the basis for some digital coloration or even coloring after printing.
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### The montage command
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Finally, I want to talk about the **montage** command. I've already shown examples of it above, where I have combined single images into composites.
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Here's how I generated the charcoal example (note that it would all be on one line):
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montage -label %f DSC_0008.jpg charcoal_example.jpg -geometry +10+10
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-resize 25% -shadow -title 'charcoal demo' charcoal_demo.jpg
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```
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The **-label** option labels each image with its filename (**%f**) underneath. Without the **‑geometry** option, all the images would be thumbnail size (120 pixels wide), and **+10+10** manages the border size. Next, I resized the entire final composite (**‑resize 25%**) and added a shadow (with no settings, so it's the default), and finally created a **title** for the montage.
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You can place all the image names at the end, with the last image name the file where the montage is saved. This might be useful to create an alias for the command and all its options, then I can simply type the alias followed by the appropriate filenames. I've done this on occasion to reduce the typing needed to create a series of montages.
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In the **‑canny** examples, I had four images in the montage. I added the **‑tile**option, specifically **‑tile 2x**, which created a montage of two columns. I could have specified a **matrix**, **‑tile 2x2**, or **‑tile x2** to produce the same result.
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There is a lot more to learn about ImageMagick, so I plan to write more about it, maybe even about using [Perl][10] to script ImageMagick commands. ImageMagick has extensive [documentation][11], although the site is short on examples or showing results, and I think the best way to learn is by experimenting and changing various settings and options.
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作者简介：
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Greg Pittman - Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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---------------------
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via: https://opensource.com/article/17/8/imagemagick
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作者：[Greg Pittman ][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:https://opensource.com/users/greg-p
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[1]:https://opensource.com/file/367401
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[2]:https://opensource.com/file/367391
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[3]:https://opensource.com/file/367396
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[4]:https://opensource.com/file/367381
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[5]:https://opensource.com/file/367406
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[6]:https://opensource.com/article/17/8/imagemagick?rate=W2W3j4nu4L14gOClu1RhT7GOMDS31pUdyw-dsgFNqYI
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[7]:https://opensource.com/user/30666/feed
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[8]:https://opensource.com/article/17/7/4-lightweight-image-viewers-linux-desktop
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[9]:https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
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[10]:https://opensource.com/sitewide-search?search_api_views_fulltext=perl
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[11]:https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php
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[12]:https://opensource.com/users/greg-p
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[13]:https://opensource.com/users/greg-p
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[14]:https://opensource.com/article/17/8/imagemagick#comments
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