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ImageMagick

Developer	Open source community
Latest release	6.3.7-7 / 23 December 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Image manipulation
Website	http://imagemagick.org/

ImageMagick is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting close to 100 image formats. It is mainly used to perform various transformation and conversion operations on images. Released under a permissive free software license, ImageMagick is free software.^[1]

1 Features
2 Distribution
3 Related software
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Features

The software mainly consists of a number of command line interface utilities for manipulating images. They do not have a GUI based interface through which images can be edited, like in Photoshop or GIMP, but instead will modify an already existing image by taking in various command-line parameters. Nevertheless, ImageMagick also includes an X Window graphical user interface for rendering and manipulating images called IMDisplay and API libraries for many programming languages. The program uses magic numbers to identify image file formats which is why "Magick" appears in the name. A number of programs, such as MediaWiki, phpBB and vBulletin, can use ImageMagick to create image thumbnails if it is installed. ImageMagick is also used by other programs, such as LyX, for converting images. ImageMagick has a fully integrated perl API called PerlMagick^[2].

Distribution

ImageMagick is cross-platform, and runs on all recent versions of Microsoft Windows except Windows 95, and Unix-like systems including Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. The project's source code can be compiled for other systems, including AmigaOS 4.0.