Definitive Guides (Hardcover)

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Supporting over 90 image formats, and capable of resizing, cropping, and converting between image types, the ImageMagick image manipulation suite is capable of serving an increasingly demanding role in an era where digital imaging and photography is more prevalent than ever. An open source project backed by six years of continued development, ImageMagick can perform an impressive array of operations, such as creating images from scratch, changing colors, stretching, rotating, overlaying images on one another, and overlaying text on images

The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick details all of these capabilities (and more) in a practical, learn by example fashion. After reading this book, you will be comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Also, with its coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you will learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.

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Foreword	p. xiii
About the Author	p. xv
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
Installing and Configuring ImageMagick	p. 1
Installing Precompiled Versions	p. 1
Debian and Ubuntu Linux	p. 1
Red Hat Linux	p. 2
Older ImageMagick Versions	p. 2
Microsoft Windows	p. 2
Installing from Source	p. 9
Introducing Dependencies	p. 9
Compiling on Unix Operating Systems	p. 10
Installing Using FreeBSD Ports	p. 14
Compiling ImageMagick on Microsoft Windows	p. 15
Exploring the Architecture of ImageMagick	p. 22
Using Configuration Files	p. 23
Using Environment Variables	p. 25
Limiting Resource Usage on the Command Line	p. 25
Determining What Is Configured	p. 25
Using ImageMagick	p. 27
Online Help	p. 27
Debug Output	p. 28
Verbose Output	p. 28
What Version of ImageMagick Is Installed?	p. 29
Conclusion	p. 29
Performing Basic Image Manipulation	p. 31
Introducing Imaging Theory	p. 31
Vector Images	p. 32
Raster Images	p. 33
Invoking convert	p. 35
Changing the Size of an Image	p. 35
Making an Image Smaller	p. 35
Making an Image Smaller Without Specifying Dimensions	p. 43
Understanding Geometries	p. 46
Making an Image Larger	p. 47
Processing Many Images at Once	p. 49
Conclusion	p. 49
Introducing Compression and Other Metadata	p. 51
Compressing Images	p. 51
Lossy Compression vs. Lossless Compression	p. 51
Which Format Is Right for You?	p. 57
Introducing Common File Formats	p. 58
Introducing LZW Compression	p. 59
Comparing File Sizes	p. 59
Manipulating Compression Options with ImageMagick	p. 61
Introducing Image Metadata	p. 66
Altering How Pixels Are Stored	p. 71
Introducing Gamma Correction	p. 73
Setting Color Intent and Profiles	p. 74
Handling Images That Don't Specify Dimensions	p. 74
Setting Image Resolution	p. 74
Transparency with GIF	p. 75
Storing Multiple Image Formats	p. 75
Adding, Removing, and Swapping Images	p. 76
Creating Multiple Image Files	p. 76
Decrypting Encrypted PDFs	p. 76
Manipulating Animated Images	p. 77
Changing the Frame Rate	p. 77
Morphing Two Images	p. 77
Creating Looping GIF Animations	p. 77
Using GIF Disposal	p. 78
Harnessing Disposal Methods	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 78
Using Other ImageMagick Tools	p. 79
Using the Command-Line Tools	p. 79
Compare	p. 79
Composite	p. 83
Conjure	p. 95
Convert	p. 95
Identify	p. 95
Import	p. 98
Mogrify	p. 100
Montage	p. 100
Using the Graphical Tools	p. 112
Animate	p. 112
Display	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 116
Performing Artistic Transformations	p. 119
Blur	p. 119
Charcoal	p. 120
Colorize	p. 121
Implode	p. 124
Noise	p. 125
Paint	p. 128
Radial-blur	p. 129
Raise	p. 130
Segment	p. 132
Sepia-tone	p. 133
Shade	p. 134
Sharpen	p. 135
Solarize	p. 136
Spread	p. 137
Swirl	p. 138
Threshold	p. 139
Unsharp	p. 140
Wave	p. 144
Virtual-pixel	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 146
Performing Other Image Transformations	p. 147
Performing Transformations on One Image	p. 147
Adding Borders to an Image	p. 147
Rotating an Image	p. 149
Manipulating Contrast	p. 152
Dithering an Image	p. 155
Equalizing an Image	p. 157
Flipping an Image	p. 159
Tinting an Image	p. 160
Negating an Image	p. 161
Normalizing, Enhancing, and Modulating an Image	p. 165
Shearing an Image	p. 172
Rolling an Image	p. 175
Turning Multiple Images into One Image	p. 176
Appending Images	p. 176
Averaging Images	p. 181
Flattening Images	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 183
Using the Drawing Commands	p. 185
Specifying Colors	p. 185
Using Named Colors	p. 185
Using HTML-Style Color Strings	p. 186
Using RGB Tuples	p. 194
Specifying a Page Size	p. 195
Specifying a Background Color	p. 195
Specifying the Fill Color and Stroke Color	p. 196
Setting Gravity	p. 198
Annotating an Image with Text	p. 199
Drawing Simple Shapes	p. 210
Drawing a Single Point	p. 211
Drawing a Straight Line	p. 211
Drawing a Rectangle	p. 212
Drawing a Rectangle with Rounded Corners	p. 213
Drawing a Circle	p. 214
Drawing an Arc	p. 215
Drawing an Ellipse	p. 216
Drawing a Polyline	p. 216
Drawing a Polygon	p. 217
Drawing a Bezier	p. 217
Drawing Text	p. 218
Performing Color Operations That Take a Point and a Method	p. 218
Transforming Your Drawings	p. 220
Compositing Images with the draw Command	p. 230
Using the Over Operator	p. 232
Using the In Operator	p. 233
Using the Out Operator	p. 233
Using the Atop Operator	p. 234
Using the Xor Operator	p. 235
Using the Plus Operator	p. 236
Using the Minus Operator	p. 237
Using the Difference Operator	p. 238
Using the Multiply Operator	p. 242
Using the Bumpmap Operator	p. 243
Performing Other Tasks with These Composition Operators	p. 244
Antialiasing Your Images	p. 245
Framing an Image	p. 247
Writing Each Step of the Way	p. 252
Applying Affine Matrices	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 262
PerlMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Perl	p. 263
Presenting the Problem	p. 263
Introducing the Format for This Chapter	p. 264
Introducing the Code Structure	p. 264
Using PhotoMagick.pm	p. 264
Introducing photomagick	p. 266
Introducing pmpublish	p. 281
Using the Templates	p. 288
Using the Index Template	p. 288
Using the Image Template	p. 289
Using the Thumbnail Template	p. 290
Conclusion	p. 290
Implementing Your Own Delegate with C	p. 291
How Delegates Are Configured	p. 291
Writing a Simple Delegate in C	p. 293
Conclusion	p. 299
RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby	p. 301
Presenting the Code	p. 301
Seeing the Helper Application in Action	p. 306
Conclusion	p. 310
MagickWand: ImageMagick Programming with PHP	p. 311
Presenting the Problem	p. 311
Presenting the Implementation	p. 311
Creating a Background Image	p. 313
Creating the Bar Images	p. 313
Presenting the Code	p. 314
Conclusion	p. 317
Where to Go from Here	p. 319
Where Do You Find Help Online?	p. 319
What If You Find a Bug in ImageMagick?	p. 320
Conclusion	p. 320
Index	p. 321
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