Short Course: ImageMagick

David Jacoby Aaron Roswarski

ImageMagick is a freely-distributed collection of image modification tools available for most UNIX variants, including Linux. There are also versions available for Windows NT, Macintosh and VMS. It is a part of the Common Unix Environment set up by ECN and PUCC, and thus standard on most UNIX machines on campus.

There are a number of programs grouped under /usr/local/bin/magick. To use them, you will have to make sure you have this as part of your path.

  • animate *
  • combine *
  • convert *
  • display *
  • get
  • httpget
  • identify *
  • import *
  • mogrify *
  • montage *
  • picttoppm
  • ra_ppm
  • rawtorle
  • segment
Programs with asterisks (*) are listed as part of the current distribution of ImageMagick

Of these, we are primarily concerned with display, which provides a graphical interface, while the others are run from the command line.

We'll start with the bare bones.