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The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick

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Authors:
  1. Michael Still
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  • The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick is the first book to cover ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) comprehensively, one of the most popular open source software suites for creating and manipulating images

  • Beginner/intermediate programmers and web developers looking for an automated solution for image manipulation; this book explains how ImageMagick's features can be incorporated in a variety of applications

  • The author and review team is unusually strong: the author has been involved in large-scale image processing and storage for the past several years. And the creators of ImageMagick were closely involved in the book's technical review

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Installing and Configuring ImageMagick

    Pages 1-30

  3. Performing Basic Image Manipulation

    Pages 31-49

  4. Introducing Compression and Other Metadata

    Pages 51-78

  5. Using Other ImageMagick Tools

    Pages 79-117

  6. Performing Artistic Transformations

    Pages 119-146

  7. Performing Other Image Transformations

    Pages 147-183

  8. Using the Drawing Commands

    Pages 185-262

  9. PerlMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Perl

    Pages 263-290

  10. Implementing Your Own Delegate with C

    Pages 291-299

  11. RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby

    Pages 301-310

  12. MagickWand: ImageMagick Programming with PHP

    Pages 311-317

  13. Where to Go from Here

    Pages 319-320

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 321-335
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About this book

An open source project backed by years of continual development, ImageMagick supports over 90 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch, changing colors, stretching, rotating, and overlaying images, and overlaying text on images. Whether you use ImageMagick to manage the family photos or to embark on a job involving millions of images, this book will provide you with the knowledge to manage your images with ease.

The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick explains all of these capabilities and more in a practical, learn-by-example fashion. You'll get comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Through the books coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you'll learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.

About the author

Michael Still released his first open source project in July 2000 and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a tux out of fairy lights! He is the author of The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Apress, 2005). Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia, and now works for Google and lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.

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