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.

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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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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Installing and Configuring ImageMagick.- Performing Basic Image Manipulation.- Introducing Compression and Other Metadata.- Using Other ImageMagick Tools.- Performing Artistic Transformations.- Performing Other Image Transformations.- Using the Drawing Commands.- PerlMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Perl.- Implementing Your Own Delegate with C.- RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby.- MagickWand: ImageMagick Programming with PHP.- Where to Go from Here.