ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a software suite used for image manipulation and display, supporting many image formats. ImageMagick software mainly uses command line interface for image manipulation. You can use this software to do tasks such as rotate, scale, resize, flip, shear, display and many more. You can do the image manipulation job much faster using command line interface and it is easier to use.

Now, I will walk you through the steps to install ImageMagick software suite. I assume you are running Fedora 8 on your computer.

1. Launch the terminal by clicking

2. Switch to super user mode. You will require the root password.

3. Install ImageMagick

Please note that I and M are in upper case.
ImageMagick includes a number of command-line utilities for manipulating images. I will show you some commands to manipulate the image and illustrate the same with an example:

To display the image, use the following command on your terminal:

For example:

This command will display the flower.png image on your screen.

To resize the image, use the following command on your terminal:

For example:

This command will resize the image to 200X200 and saves it to flower_1.png.

ImageMagick has a command using which you can change the format of the image. For example, you can change the .jpg image format to .png format. ImageMagick supports over 100 image formats. To convert the format of the image, use the following command on your terminal:

For example:

This command will change the .jpg image format to .png format.

Using ImageMagick you can animate a particular format of images in a directory. To animate the images in a directory of .png formats, use the following command on your terminal:

ImageMagick software provides much more commands to manipulate and display the images. For more information about ImageMagick commands please visit the web site http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php