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<p>ImageMagick<sup><a href="http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78333969" target="932535666">®</a></sup>, version 6.2.4, is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated.</p>
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<p>Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages <a href="www/api.html#c">C</a>, <a href="www/api.html#ch">Ch</a>, <a href="www/api.html#c++">C++</a>, <a href="www/api.html#java">Java</a>, <a href="www/api.html#Perl">Perl</a>, <a href="www/api.html#php">PHP</a>, <a href="www/api.html#python">Python</a>, <a href="www/api.html#ruby">Ruby</a>, <a href="www/api.html#tcl">Tcl/Tk</a>, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick, TclMagick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically.</p>
<p>ImageMagick supports many image <a href="www/formats.html">formats</a> (over 90) including formats like GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.</p>
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<p>Here are just a few <a href="www/examples.html">examples</a> of what ImageMagick can do:</p>
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<li>Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG)</li>
<li>Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image</li>
<li>Create a montage of image thumbnails</li>
<li>Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web</li>
<li>Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence</li>
<li>Create a composite image by combining several separate image</li>
<li>Draw shapes or text on an image</li>
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<li>Describe the format and characteristics of an image</li>
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<p>To join the ImageMagick user community, try the <a href="http://studio.imagemagick.org/discussion-server" target="1731353781">discourse server</a> or <a href="www/mailing-list.html" target="640913192">mailing lists</a>. Both permit you to review questions or comments (with informed responses) posed by ImageMagick users as well as an opportunity to ask your own questions.</p>
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<p><em>The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick</em> is scheduled for publication near the end of this year. You can preorder it from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=imagemagick-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/1590595904/qid=1123551819/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846" target="990314355">Amazon</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=imagemagick-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.</p>
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