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251 <div class="doc-section">
253 <p>Below is list of command-line options recognized by the ImageMagick <a
254 href="../www/command-line-tools.html">command-line
255 tools</a>. If you want a description of a particular option, click on the
256 option name in the navigation bar above and you will go right to it. Unless
257 otherwise noted, each option is recognized by the commands <a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a>, <a href="../www/mogrify.html">mogrify</a>.</p>
259 <div style="margin: auto;">
260 <h4><a id="adaptive-blur"></a>-adaptive-blur <em class="arg">radius</em>[x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em>]</h4>
263 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Adaptively blur pixels, with decreasing effect near edges.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
264 <p>A Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (<em class="arg">sigma</em>) is used. If <em class="arg">sigma</em> is not given it defaults to 1.</p>
266 <div style="margin: auto;">
267 <h4><a id="adaptive-resize"></a>-adaptive-resize <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
270 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Resize the image using data-dependent triangulation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
272 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <a href="#adaptive-resize">-adaptive-resize</a> option defaults to data-dependent triangulation. Use the <a href="#filter">-filter</a> to choose a different resampling algorithm. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are ignored, and the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option has no effect.</p>
274 <div style="margin: auto;">
275 <h4><a id="adaptive-sharpen"></a>-adaptive-sharpen <em class="arg">radius</em>[x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em>]</h4>
278 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Adaptively sharpen pixels, with increasing effect near edges.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
280 <p>A Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (<em class="arg">sigma</em>) is used. If <em class="arg">sigma</em> is not given it defaults to 1.</p>
282 <div style="margin: auto;">
283 <h4><a id="adjoin"></a>-adjoin</h4>
286 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Join images into a single multi-image file.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
288 <p>This option is enabled by default. An attempt is made to save all images of
289 an image sequence into the given output file. However, some formats, such as
290 JPEG and PNG, do not support more than one image per file, and in that case
291 ImageMagick is forced to write each image as a separate file. As such, if
292 more than one image needs to be written, the filename given is modified by
293 adding a <a href="#scene">-scene</a> number before the suffix, in order to
294 make distinct names for each image. </p>
296 <p>Use <a href="#adjoin">+adjoin</a> to force each image to be written to
297 separate files, whether or not the file format allows multiple images per file
298 (for example, GIF, MIFF, and TIFF). </p>
300 <p>Including a C-style integer format string in the output filename will
301 automagically enable <a href="#adjoin">+adjoin</a> and are used to specify
302 where the <a href="#scene">-scene</a> number is placed in the filenames. These
303 strings, such as '<kbd>%d</kbd>' or '<kbd>%03d</kbd>', are familiar to those
304 who have used the standard <kbd>printf()</kbd>' C-library function. As an
305 example, the command</p>
307 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: rose: -morph 15 my%02dmorph.jpg</span></p>
308 <p>will create a sequence of 17 images (the two given plus 15 more created by
309 <a href="#morph">-morph</a>), named: my00morph.jpg, my01morph.jpg,
310 my02morph.jpg, ..., my16morph.jpg. </p>
312 <p>In summary, ImageMagick tries to write all images to one file, but will
313 save to multiple files, if any of the following conditions exist...
315 <li>the output image's file format does not allow multi-image files,
316 <li>the <a href="#adjoin">+adjoin</a> option is given, or
317 <li>a printf() integer format string (eg: "%d") is present in the output
322 <div style="margin: auto;">
323 <h4><a id="affine"></a>-affine
324 <em class="arg">s<sub>x</sub></em>,<em class="arg">r<sub>x</sub></em>,<em
325 class="arg">r<sub>y</sub></em>,<em class="arg">s<sub>y</sub></em>[,<em
326 class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em>,<em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em>]</h4>
329 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the drawing transformation matrix for combined rotating and scaling.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
331 <p>This option sets a transformation matrix, for use by subsequent <a
332 href="#draw">-draw</a> or <a href="#transform">-transform</a> options. </p>
334 <p>The matrix entries are entered as comma-separated numeric values either in
335 quotes or without spaces. </p>
337 <p>Internally, the transformation matrix has 3x3 elements, but three of them
338 are omitted from the input because they are constant. The new (transformed)
339 coordinates (<em class="arg">x'</em>, <em class="arg">y'</em>) of a pixel at
340 position (<em class="arg">x</em>, <em class="arg">y</em>) in the original
341 image are calculated using the following matrix equation.</p>
344 <img alt="affine transformation" src="../images/affine.png"/>
347 <p> The size of the resulting image is that of the smallest rectangle that
348 contains the transformed source image. The parameters <em
349 class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em> and <em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em>
350 subsequently shift the image pixels so that those that are moved out of the
351 image area are cut off.</p>
353 <p>The transformation matrix complies with the left-handed pixel coordinate
354 system: positive <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em> directions
355 are rightward and downward, resp.; positive rotation is clockwise.</p>
357 <p> If the translation coefficients <em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em> and <em
358 class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em> are omitted they default to 0,0. Therefore,
359 four parameters suffice for rotation and scaling without translation.</p>
361 <p>Scaling by the factors <em class="arg">s<sub>x</sub></em> and <em
362 class="arg">s<sub>y</sub></em> in the <em>x</em> and <em>y</em> directions,
363 respectively, is accomplished with the following.</p>
365 <p>See <a href="#transform">-transform</a>, and the <a
366 href="#distort">-distort</a> method '<kbd>Affineprojection</kbd> for more
371 -affine <em class="arg">s<sub>x</sub></em>,0,0,<em class="arg">s<sub>y</sub></em>
374 <p>Translation by a displacement (<em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em>, <em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em>) is accomplished like so:</p>
377 -affine 1,0,0,1,<em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em>,<em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em>
380 <p>Rotate clockwise about the origin (the upper left-hand corner) by an angle <em>a</em> by letting
381 <em>c</em> = cos(<em>a</em>), <em>s</em> = sin(<em>a</em>), and using the following.</p>
384 -affine <em>c</em>,<em>s</em>,-<em>s</em>,<em>c</em>
387 <p>The cumulative effect of a sequence of <a href="#affine" >-affine</a> transformations can be accomplished by instead by a single <a href="#affine" >-affine</a> operation using the matrix equal to the product of the matrices of the individual transformations.</p>
389 <p>An attempt is made to detect near-singular transformation matrices. If the matrix determinant has a sufficiently small absolute value it is rejected.</p>
391 <div style="margin: auto;">
392 <h4><a id="alpha"></a>-alpha <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
395 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Gives control of the alpha/matte channel of an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
397 <p>Used to set a flag on an image indicating whether or not to use existing alpha
398 channel data, to create an alpha channel, or to perform other operations on the alpha channel. Choose the argument <em class="arg">type</em> from the list below.</p>
404 <th align="left" style="width: 8%">type</th>
405 <th align="left">Description</th>
409 <td valign="top"><kbd>Activate</kbd> or <kbd>On</kbd></td>
411 Enable the image's transparency channel. Note normally <kbd>Set</kbd>
412 should be used instead of this, unless you specifically need to
413 preserve existing (but specifically turned <kbd>Off</kbd>) transparency
417 <td valign="top"><kbd>Deactivate</kbd> or <kbd>Off</kbd></td>
419 Disables the image's transparency channel. Does not delete or change the
420 existing data, just turns off the use of that data.</td></tr>
423 <td valign="top"><kbd>Set</kbd></td>
425 Activates the alpha/matte channel. If it was previously turned off
426 then it also resets the channel to opaque. If the image already had
427 the alpha channel turned on, it will have no effect.</td></tr>
430 <td valign="top"><kbd>Opaque</kbd></td>
432 Enables the alpha/matte channel and forces it to be fully opaque.
436 <td valign="top"><kbd>Transparent</kbd></td>
438 Activates the alpha/matte channel and forces it to be fully
439 transparent. This effectively creates a fully transparent image the
440 same size as the original and with all its original RGB data still
441 intact, but fully transparent. </td></tr>
444 <td valign="top"><kbd>Extract</kbd></td>
446 Copies the alpha channel values into all the color channels and turns
447 '<kbd>Off</kbd>' the the image's transparency, so as to generate
448 a gray-scale mask of the image's shape. The alpha channel data is left
449 intact just deactivated. This is the inverse of '<kbd>Copy</kbd>'.
453 <td valign="top"><kbd>Copy</kbd></td>
455 Turns '<kbd>On</kbd>' the alpha/matte channel, then copies the
456 gray-scale intensity of the image, into the alpha channel, converting
457 a gray-scale mask into a transparent shaped mask ready to be colored
458 appropriately. The color channels are not modified. </td></tr>
461 <td valign="top"><kbd>Shape</kbd></td>
463 As per '<kbd>Copy</kbd>' but also colors the resulting shape mask with
464 the current background color. That is the RGB color channels is
465 replaced, with appropriate alpha shape.
469 <td valign="top"><kbd>Background</kbd></td>
471 Set any fully-transparent pixel to the background color, while leaving
472 it fully-transparent. This can make some image file formats, such as
473 PNG, smaller as the RGB values of transparent pixels are more uniform,
474 and thus can compress better.
478 <td valign="top"><kbd>Flatten</kbd></td>
480 Composite the image over the background color.
485 <p>Note that while the <a href="#matte" >+matte</a> operation is the same as
486 "<kbd><a href="#alpha" >-alpha</a> Off</kbd>", the <a href="#matte"
487 >-matte</a> operation is the same as "<kbd><a href="#alpha" >-alpha</a>
488 Set</kbd>" and not "<kbd><a href="#alpha" >-alpha</a> On</kbd>". </p>
491 <div style="margin: auto;">
492 <h4><a id="annotate"></a>
493 -annotate <em class="arg">degrees</em> <em class="arg">text</em><br />
494 -annotate <em class="arg">Xdegrees</em>x<em class="arg">Ydegrees</em> <em class="arg">text</em><br />
495 -annotate <em class="arg">Xdegrees</em>x<em class="arg">Ydegrees</em> {+-}<em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em>{+-}<em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em> <em class="arg">text</em></h4>
498 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Annotate an image with text.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
500 <p>This is a convenience for annotating an image with text. For more precise control over text annotations, use <a href="#draw">-draw</a>.</p>
503 <p>The values <em class="arg">Xdegrees</em> and <em class="arg">Ydegrees</em> control the shears with respect to the , respectively, applied to the text, while <em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em> and <em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em> are offsets that give the location of the text relative to the upper left corner of the image.</p>
505 <p>Using <a href="#annotate">-annotate</a> <em class="arg">degrees</em> or <a href="#annotate">-annotate</a> <em class="arg">degrees</em>x<em class="arg">degrees</em> produces an unsheared rotation of the text. The direction of the rotation is positive, which means a clockwise rotation if <em class="arg">degrees</em> is positive. (This conforms to the usual mathematical convention once it is realized that the positive <em>y</em>–direction is conventionally considered to be <em>downward</em> for images.)</p>
507 <p>The new (transformed) coordinates (<em class="arg">x'</em>, <em class="arg">y'</em>) of a pixel at position (<em class="arg">x</em>, <em class="arg">y</em>) in the image are calculated using the following matrix equation.</p>
508 <div class="eqn"><img alt="annotate transformation" src="../images/annotate.png"/></div>
510 <p>If <em class="arg">t<sub>x</sub></em> and <em class="arg">t<sub>y</sub></em> are omitted, they default to 0. This makes the bottom-left of the text becomes the upper-left corner of the image, which is probably undesirable. Adding a <a href="#gravity" >-gravity</a> option in this case leads to nice results.</p>
512 <p>Text is any UTF-8 encoded character sequence. If <em class="arg">text</em> is of the form '@mytext.txt', the text is read from the file <kbd>mytext.txt</kbd>. Text in a file is taken literally; no embedded formatting characters are recognized.</p>
514 <div style="margin: auto;">
515 <h4><a id="antialias"></a>-antialias</h4>
518 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Enable/Disable of the rendering of anti-aliasing pixels when
519 drawing fonts and lines.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
521 <p>By default, objects (e.g. text, lines, polygons, etc.) are antialiased when
522 drawn. Use <a href="#antialias">+antialias</a> to disable the addition of
523 antialiasing edge pixels. This will then reduce the number of colors added to
524 an image to just the colors being directly drawn. That is, no mixed colors
525 are added when drawing such objects. </p>
527 <div style="margin: auto;">
528 <h4><a id="append"></a>-append</h4>
531 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Join current images vertically or horizontally.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
533 <p>This option creates a single longer image image, by joining all the current
534 images in sequence top-to-bottom. Use <a href="#append">+append</a> to
535 stack images left-to-right. </p>
537 <p>If they are not of the same width, narrower images are padded with the
538 current <a href="#background">-background</a> color setting, and their
539 position relative to each other can be controlled by the current <a
540 href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting. </p>
543 <div style="margin: auto;">
544 <h4><a id="attenuate"></a>-attenuate <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
547 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Lessen (or intensify) when adding noise to an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
550 <div style="margin: auto;">
551 <h4><a id="authenticate"></a>-authenticate <em class="arg">password</em></h4>
554 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Decrypt a PDF with a password.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
556 <p>Use this option to supply a <em class="arg">password</em> for decrypting a PDF that has been encrypted using Microsoft Crypto API (MSC API). The encrypting using the MSC API is not supported.</p>
558 <p>For a different encryption method, see <a href="#encipher">-encipher</a> and <a href="#decipher">-decipher</a>. </p>
562 <div style="margin: auto;">
563 <h4><a id="auto-gamma"></a>-auto-gamma</h4>
566 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Automagically adjust gamma level of image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
568 <p>This calculates the mean values of an image, then applies a calculated <a
569 href="#gamma" >-gamma</a> adjustment so that is the mean color exists in the
570 image it will get a have a value of 50%. </p>
572 <p>This means that any solid 'gray' image becomes 50% gray. </p>
574 <p>This works well for real-life images with little or no extreme dark and
575 light areas, but tend to fail for images with large amounts of bright sky or
576 dark shadows. It also does not work well for diagrams or cartoon like images.
579 <p>It uses the <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting, (including the
580 '<em>sync</em>' flag for channel synchronization), to determine which color
581 values is used and modified. As the default <a href="#channel"
582 >-channel</a> setting is '<em>RGB,sync</em>', channels are modified
583 together by the same gamma value, preserving colors. </p>
587 <div style="margin: auto;">
588 <h4><a id="auto-level"></a>-auto-level</h4>
591 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Automagically adjust color levels of image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
593 <p>This is a 'perfect' image normalization operator. It finds the exact
594 minimum and maximum color values in the image and then applies a <a
595 href="#level" >-level</a> operator to stretch the values to the full range of
598 <p>The operator is not typically used for real-life images, image scans, or
599 JPEG format images, as a single 'out-rider' pixel can set a bad min/max values
600 for the <a href="#level" >-level</a> operation. On the other hand it is the
601 right operator to use for color stretching gradient images being used to
602 generate Color lookup tables, distortion maps, or other 'mathematically'
605 <p>The operator is very similar to the <a href="#normalize">-normalize</a>, <a
606 href="#contrast-stretch" >-contrast-stretch</a>, and <a href="#linear-stretch"
607 >-linear-stretch</a> operators, but without 'histogram binning' or 'clipping'
608 problems that these operators may have. That is <a href="#auto-level"
609 >-auto-level</a> is the perfect or ideal version these operators. </p>
611 <p>It uses the <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting, (including the
612 special '<em>sync</em>' flag for channel synchronization), to determine
613 which color values are used and modified. As the default <a
614 href="#channel" >+channel</a> setting is '<em>RGB,sync</em>', the
615 '<em>sync</em>' ensures that the color channels will are modified
616 together by the same gamma value, preserving colors, and ignoring
620 <div style="margin: auto;">
621 <h4><a id="auto-orient"></a>-auto-orient</h4>
624 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Automagically orient (rotate) an image created by a digital camera.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
626 <p>This operator reads and resets the EXIF image profile setting 'Orientation'
627 and then performs the appropriate 90 degree rotation on the image to orient
628 the image, for correct viewing. </p>
630 <p>This EXIF profile setting is usually set using a gravity sensor in digital
631 camera, however photos taken directly downward or upward may not have an
632 appropriate value. Also images that have been orientation 'corrected' without
633 reseting this setting, may be 'corrected' again resulting in a incorrect
634 result. If the EXIF profile was previously stripped, the <a
635 href="#auto-orient" >-auto-orient</a> operator will do nothing. </p>
638 <div style="margin: auto;">
639 <h4><a id="average"></a>-average</h4>
642 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Average a set of images.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
644 <p>An error results if the images are not identically sized.</p>
647 <div style="margin: auto;">
648 <h4><a id="backdrop"></a>-backdrop</h4>
651 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Display the image centered on a backdrop.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
653 <p>This backdrop covers the entire workstation screen and is useful for hiding other X window activity while viewing the image. The color of the backdrop is specified as the background color. The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
655 <div style="margin: auto;">
656 <h4><a id="background"></a>-background <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
659 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the background color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
661 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option. The default background color (if none is specified or found in the image) is white.</p>
663 <div style="margin: auto;">
664 <h4><a id="bench"></a>-bench <em class="arg">iterations</em></h4>
667 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Measure performance.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
669 <p>Repeat the entire command for the given number of <em class="arg">iterations</em> and report the user-time and elapsed time. For instance, consider the following command and its output. Modify the benchmark with the -duration to run the benchmark for a fixed number of seconds and -concurrent to run the benchmark in parallel (requires the OpenMP feature).</p>
671 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -resize 1000% -bench 5 logo.png</span><span class='crtout'>Performance[4]: 5i 0.875657ips 6.880u 0:05.710</span></p>
672 <p>In this example, 5 iterations were completed at 0.875657 iterations per second, using 4 threads and 6.88 seconds of the user's allotted time, for a total elapsed time of 5.71 seconds.</p>
674 <div style="margin: auto;">
675 <h4><a id="bias"></a>-bias <em class="arg">value</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
678 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Add bias when convolving an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
680 <p>This option shifts the output of <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#convolve">‑convolve</a> so that positive and negative results are relative to the specified bias value. </p>
682 <p>This is important for non-HDRI compilations of ImageMagick when dealing with convolutions that contain negative as well as positive values. This is especially the case with convolutions involving high pass filters or edge detection. Without an output bias, the negative values are clipped at zero.</p>
684 <p>When using an ImageMagick with the HDRI compile-time setting, <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> is not needed, as ImageMagick is able to store/handle any
685 negative results without clipping to the color value range
686 (0..QuantumRange).</p>
688 <p>See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page
689 <a href="../www/high-dynamic-range.html">High Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages or this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a> entry.
692 <div style="margin: auto;">
693 <h4><a id="black-point-compensation"></a>-black-point-compensation</h4>
696 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Use black point compensation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
698 <div style="margin: auto;">
699 <h4><a id="black-threshold"></a>-black-threshold <em class="arg">value</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
702 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Force to black all pixels below the threshold while leaving all pixels at or above the threshold unchanged.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
704 <p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer value within [0, <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>] corresponding to the desired <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a> value. See <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#threshold">‑threshold</a> for more details on thresholds and resulting values.
708 <div style="margin: auto;">
709 <h4><a id="blend"></a>-blend <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
712 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>blend an image into another by the given absolute value or percent.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
714 <p>Blend will average the images together ('plus') according to the
715 percentages given and each pixels transparency. If only a single percentage
716 value is given it sets the weight of the composite or 'source' image, while
717 the background image is weighted by the exact opposite amount. That is a
718 <kbd>-blend 30%</kbd> merges 30% of the 'source' image with 70% of the
719 'destination' image. Thus it is equivalent to <kbd>-blend 30x70%</kbd>.</p>
722 <div style="margin: auto;">
723 <h4><a id="blue-primary"></a>-blue-primary <em class="arg">x</em>,<em class="arg">y</em></h4>
726 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the blue chromaticity primary point.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
728 <div style="margin: auto;">
729 <h4><a id="blue-shift"></a>-blue-shift <em class="arg">factor</em></h4>
732 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate a scene at nighttime in the moonlight. Start with a factor of 1.5</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
734 <div style="margin: auto;">
736 <div style="margin: auto;">
737 <h4><a id="blur"></a>-blur <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-blur <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
740 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Reduce image noise and reduce detail levels.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
742 <p>Convolve the image with a Gaussian or normal distribution using the given
743 <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value. The formula is:</p>
745 <div class="eqn"><img alt="gaussian distribution" width="243px" height="42px" src="../images/gaussian-blur.png"/>
748 <p>The <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value is the important argument, and
749 determines the actual amount of blurring that will take place. </p>
751 <p>The <em class="arg" >Radius</em> is only used to determine the size of the
752 array which will hold the calculated Gaussian distribution. It should be an
753 integer. If not given, or set to zero, IM will calculate the largest possible
754 radius that will provide meaningful results for the Gaussian distribution.
757 <p>The larger the <em class="arg" >Radius</em> the slower the
758 operation is. However too small a <em class="arg" >Radius</em>, and sever
759 aliasing effects may result. As a guideline, <em class="arg" >Radius</em>
760 should be at least twice the <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value, though three
761 times will produce a more accurate result. </p>
763 <p>This option differs from <a href="#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a> simply
764 by taking advantage of the separability properties of the distribution. Here
765 we apply a single-dimensional Gaussian matrix in the horizontal direction,
766 then repeat the process in the vertical direction.</p>
768 <p>The <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
769 pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
773 <div style="margin: auto;">
774 <h4>-blur <em class="arg">Width</em>[x<em class="arg">Height</em>[+<em class="arg">Angle</em>]]</h4>
777 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Variably blur and image according to the overlay mapping.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
779 <p>Each pixel in the overlaid region is replaced with an Elliptical Weighted
780 Average (EWA) of the source image, scaled according to the grayscale
783 <p>The ellipse is weighted with sigma set to the given <em class="arg"
784 >Width</em> and <em class="arg" >Height</em>. The <em class="arg" >Height</em>
785 defaults to the <em class="arg" >Width</em> for a normal circular Gaussian
786 weighting. The <em class="arg" >Angle</em> will rotate the ellipse from
787 horizontal clock-wise. </p>
789 <p>The <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
790 pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
794 <div style="margin: auto;">
795 <h4><a id="border"></a>-border <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
798 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Surround the image with a border of color. </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
800 <p>Set the width and height using the <em class="arg">size</em> portion of the
801 <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets are
804 <p>Set the border color by preceding with the <a
805 href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
807 <p>The <a href="#border">-border</a> operation is affected by the current <a
808 href="#compose">-compose</a> setting and assumes that this is using the default
809 '<kbd>Over</kbd>' composition method. It generates a image of the appropriate
810 size colors by the current <a href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> before
811 overlaying the original image in the center of this net image. This means that
812 with the default compose method of '<kbd>Over</kbd>' any transparent parts may
813 be replaced by the current <a href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
814 <p>See also the <a href="#frame">-frame</a> option, which has more
817 <div style="margin: auto;">
818 <h4><a id="bordercolor"></a>-bordercolor <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
821 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the border color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
823 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
825 <p>The default border color is <kbd>#DFDFDF</kbd>, <span style="background-color: #dfdfdf;">this shade of gray</span>.</p>
827 <div style="margin: auto;">
828 <h4><a id="borderwidth"></a>-borderwidth <em class="arg">geometry</em> </h4>
831 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the border width.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
833 <div style="margin: auto;">
834 <h4><a id="brightness-contrast"></a>-brightness-contrast <em class="arg">brightness</em><br />-brightness-contrast <em class="arg">brightness</em>{x<em class="arg">contrast</em>}{<em class="arg">%</em>}}</h4>
837 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Adjust the brightness and/or contrast of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
839 <p>Brightness and Contrast values apply changes to the input image. They are
840 not absolute settings. A brightness or contrast value of zero means no change.
841 The range of values is -100 to +100 on each. Positive values increase the
842 brightness or contrast and negative values decrease the brightness or contrast.
843 To control only contrast, set the brightness=0. To control only brightness,
844 set contrast=0 or just leave it off.</p>
846 <p>You may also use <a href="#fill">-channel</a> to control which channels to
847 apply the brightness and/or contrast change. The default is to apply the same
848 transformation to all channels.</p>
850 <p>Brightness and Contrast arguments are converted to offset and slope of a
851 linear transform and applied
852 using <a href="#fill">-function polynomial "slope,offset"</a>.</p>
854 <p>The slope varies from 0 at contrast=-100 to almost vertical at
855 contrast=+100. For brightness=0 and contrast=-100, the result are totally
856 midgray. For brightness=0 and contrast=+100, the result will approach but
857 not quite reach a threshold at midgray; that is the linear transformation
858 is a very steep vertical line at mid gray.</p>
860 <p>Negative slopes, i.e. negating the image, are not possible with this
861 function. All achievable slopes are zero or positive.</p>
863 <p>The offset varies from -0.5 at brightness=-100 to 0 at brightness=0 to +0.5
864 at brightness=+100. Thus, when contrast=0 and brightness=100, the result is
865 totally white. Similarly, when contrast=0 and brightness=-100, the result is
868 <p>As the range of values for the arguments are -100 to +100, adding the '%'
869 symbol is no different than leaving it off.</p>
871 <div style="margin: auto;">
872 <h4><a id="cache"></a>-cache <em class="arg">threshold</em></h4>
875 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>(This option has been replaced by the <a href='#limit'>-limit</a> option.)</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
877 <div style="margin: auto;">
878 <h4><a id="caption"></a>-caption <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
881 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Assign a caption to an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
883 <p>This option sets the caption meta-data of an image read in after this
884 option has been given. To modify a caption of images already in memory use
885 "<kbd><a href="#set">-set</a> caption</kbd>". </p>
887 <p>The caption can contain special format characters listed in the <a
888 href="../www/escape.html">Format and
889 Print Image Properties</a>. These attributes are expanded when the caption
890 is finally assigned to the individual images. </p>
892 <p>If the first character of <em class="arg">string</em> is <em
893 class="arg">@</em>, the image caption is read from a file titled by the
894 remaining characters in the string. Comments read in from a file are literal;
895 no embedded formatting characters are recognized.</p>
897 <p>Caption meta-data is not visible on the image itself. To do that use the
898 <a href="#annotate">-annotate</a> or <a href="#draw">-draw</a> options
904 -caption "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
907 <p>produces an image caption of <kbd>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</kbd> (assuming
908 that the image <kbd>bird.miff</kbd> has a width of 512 and a height of
912 <div style="margin: auto;">
913 <h4><a id="cdl"></a>-cdl <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
916 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>color correct with a color decision list.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
918 <p>Here is an example color correction collection:</p>
921 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
922 <ColorCorrectionCollection xmlns="urn:ASC:CDL:v1.2">
923 <ColorCorrection id="cc06668">
925 <Slope> 0.9 1.2 0.5 </Slope>
926 <Offset> 0.4 -0.5 0.6 </Offset>
927 <Power> 1.0 0.8 1.5 </Power>
930 <Saturation> 0.85 </Saturation>
932 </ColorCorrection>
933 </ColorCorrectionCollection>
936 <div style="margin: auto;">
937 <h4><a id="channel"></a>-channel <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
940 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify those image color channels to which subsequent operators are limited.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
942 <p>Choose from: <kbd>Red</kbd>, <kbd>Green</kbd>, <kbd>Blue</kbd>,
943 <kbd>Alpha</kbd>, <kbd>Cyan</kbd>, <kbd>Magenta</kbd>, <kbd>Yellow</kbd>,
944 <kbd>Black</kbd>, <kbd>Opacity</kbd>, <kbd>Index</kbd>, <kbd>RGB</kbd>,
945 <kbd>RGBA</kbd>, <kbd>CMYK</kbd>, or <kbd>CMYKA</kbd>.</p>
947 <p>The channels above can also be specified as a comma-separated list or can be
948 abbreviated as a concatenation of the letters '<kbd>R</kbd>', '<kbd>G</kbd>',
949 '<kbd>B</kbd>', '<kbd>A</kbd>', '<kbd>O</kbd>', '<kbd>C</kbd>',
950 '<kbd>M</kbd>', '<kbd>Y</kbd>', '<kbd>K</kbd>'.
952 For example, to only select the <kbd>Red</kbd> and <kbd>Blue</kbd> channels
953 you can either use </p>
957 <p>or you can use the short hand form</p>
962 <p>All the channels that are present in an image can be specified using the
963 special channel type <kbd>All</kbd>. Not all operators are 'channel capable',
964 but generally any operators that are generally 'grey-scale' image operators,
965 will understand this setting. See individual operator documentation. </p>
969 <p>On top of the normal channel selection an extra flag can be specified,
970 '<kbd>Sync</kbd>'. This is turned on by default and if set means that
971 operators that understand this flag should perform: cross-channel
972 synchronization of the channels. If not specified, then most grey-scale
973 operators will apply their image processing operations to each individual
974 channel (as specified by the rest of the <a href="#channel">-channel</a>
975 setting) completely independently from each other. </p>
977 <p>For example for operators such as <a href="#auto-level">-auto-level</a> and
978 <a href="#auto-gamma">-auto-gamma</a> the color channels are modified
979 together in exactly the same way so that colors will remain in-sync. Without
980 it being set, then each channel is modified separately and
981 independently, which may produce color distortion. </p>
983 <p>The <a href="#morphology">-morphology</a> '<kbd>Convolve</kbd>' method
984 and the <a href="#compose">-compose</a> mathematical methods, also understands
985 the '<kbd>Sync</kbd>' flag to modify the behaviour of pixel colors according
986 to the alpha channel (if present). That is to say it will modify the image
987 processing with the understanding that fully-transparent colors should not
988 contribute to the final result. </p>
990 <p>Basically, by default, operators work with color channels in synchronous, and
991 treats transparency as special, unless the <a href="#channel">-channel</a>
992 setting is modified so as to remove the effect of the '<kbd>Sync</kbd>' flag.
993 How each operator does this depends on that operators current implementation.
994 Not all operators understands this flag at this time, but that is changing.
997 <p>To print a complete list of channel types, use <a href="#list">-list
1002 <p>By default, ImageMagick sets <a href="#channel">-channel</a> to the value
1003 '<kbd>RGBK,sync</kbd>', which specifies that operators act on all color
1004 channels except the transparency channel, and that all the color channels are
1005 to be modified in exactly the same way, with an understanding of transparency
1006 (depending on the operation being applied). The 'plus' form <a
1007 href="#channel" >+channel</a> will reset the value back to this default. </p>
1009 <p>Options that are affected by the <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting
1010 include the following.
1012 <a href="#auto-gamma">-auto-gamma</a>,
1013 <a href="#auto-level">-auto-level</a>,
1014 <a href="#black-threshold">-black-threshold</a>,
1015 <a href="#blur">-blur</a>,
1016 <a href="#clamp">-clamp</a>,
1017 <a href="#clut">-clut</a>,
1018 <a href="#combine">-combine</a>,
1019 <a href="#composite">-composite</a> (Mathematical compose methods only),
1020 <a href="#convolve">-convolve</a>,
1021 <a href="#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a>,
1022 <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a>,
1023 <a href="#function">-function</a>,
1024 <a href="#fx">-fx</a>,
1025 <a href="#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a>,
1026 <a href="#hald-clut">-hald-clut</a>,
1027 <a href="#motion-blur">-motion-blur</a>,
1028 <a href="#morphology">-morphology</a>,
1029 <a href="#negate">-negate</a>,
1030 <a href="#normalize">-normalize</a>,
1031 <a href="#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a>,
1032 <a href="#radial-blur">-radial-blur</a>,
1033 <a href="#random-threshold">-random-threshold</a>,
1034 <a href="#separate">-separate</a>,
1035 <a href="#threshold">-threshold</a>, and
1036 <a href="#white-threshold">-white-threshold</a>.
1039 <p>Warning, some operators behave differently when the <a href="#channel"
1040 >+channel</a> default setting is in effect, verses ANY user defined <a
1041 href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting (including the equivalent of the
1042 default). These operators have yet to be made to understand the newer 'Sync'
1045 <p>For example <a href="#threshold">-threshold</a> will by default gray-scale
1046 the image before thresholding, if no <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting
1047 has been defined. This is not 'Sync flag controlled, yet. </p>
1049 <p>Also some operators such as <a href="#blur">-blur</a>, <a
1050 href="#gaussian-blur">-gaussian-blur</a>, will modify their handling of the
1051 color channels if the '<kbd>alpha</kbd>' channel is also enabled by <a
1052 href="#channel" >-channel</a>. Generally this done to ensure that
1053 fully-transparent colors are treated as being fully-transparent, and thus any
1054 underlying 'hidden' color has no effect on the final results. Typically
1055 resulting in 'halo' effects. The newer <a href="#morphology">-morphology</a>
1056 convolution equivalents however does have a understanding of the 'Sync' flag
1057 and will thus handle transparency correctly by default. </p>
1059 <p>As a alpha channel is optional within images, some operators will read the
1060 color channels of an image as a greyscale alpha mask, when the image has no
1061 alpha channel present, and the <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting tells
1062 the operator to apply the operation using alpha channels. The <a
1063 href="#clut">-clut</a> operator is a good example of this. </p>
1066 <div style="margin: auto;">
1067 <h4><a id="clamp"></a>-clamp</h4>
1070 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Restrict image colors from 0 to the quantum depth.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1072 <div style="margin: auto;">
1073 <h4><a id="charcoal"></a>-charcoal <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-charcoal <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
1076 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Simulate a charcoal drawing.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1078 <div style="margin: auto;">
1079 <h4><a id="chop"></a>-chop <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
1082 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Remove pixels from the interior of an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1084 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <em class="arg">width</em>
1085 and <em class="arg">height</em> given in the of the <em class="arg">size</em>
1086 portion of the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument give the number of
1087 columns and rows to remove. The <em class="arg">offset</em> portion of
1088 the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument is influenced by
1089 a <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting, if present.</p>
1091 <p>The <a href="#chop">-chop</a> option removes entire rows and columns,
1092 and moves the remaining corner blocks leftward and upward to close the gaps.</p>
1094 <p>While it can remove internal rows and columns of pixels, it is more
1095 typically used with as <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting and zero
1096 offsets so as to remove a single edge from an image. Compare this to <a
1097 href="#shave" >-shave</a> which removes equal numbers of pixels from oppisite
1098 sides of the image. </p>
1100 <p>Using <a href="#chop">-chop</a> effectively undoes the results of a <a
1101 href="#splice">-splice</a> that was given the same <em
1102 class="arg">geometry</em> and <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> settings. </p>
1105 <div style="margin: auto;">
1106 <h4><a id="clip"></a>-clip</h4>
1109 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply the clipping path if one is present.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1111 <p>If a clipping path is present, it is applied to subsequent operations.</p>
1113 <p>For example, in the command</p>
1115 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -clip -negate cockatoo.tif negated.tif</span></p>
1116 <p>only the pixels within the clipping path are negated.</p>
1118 <p>The <a href="#clip">-clip</a> feature requires the XML library. If the XML library is not present, the option is ignored.</p>
1120 <div style="margin: auto;">
1121 <h4><a id="clip-mask"></a>-clip-mask</h4>
1124 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Clip the image as defined by this mask.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1126 <p>Use the given image as a 'do-not-modify' mask of the current images in the
1127 current image sequence. Assuming the clipmask is a greyscale image the same
1128 size at the one already in memory, any areas that is white will not be
1129 modified by any of the 'image processing operators' that follow, until the
1130 mask is removed. Pixels in the black areas of the clip mask will be modified
1133 <p>In some ways this is similar to (though not the same) as defining
1134 a rectangular <a href="#region" >-region</a>, or using the negative of the
1135 mask (thrid) image in a three image <a href="#composite" >-composite</a>,
1139 <div style="margin: auto;">
1140 <h4><a id="clip-path"></a>-clip-path <em class="arg">id</em></h4>
1143 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Clip along a named path from the 8BIM profile.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1145 <p>This is almost identical to <a href="#clip">-clip</a>. </p>
1148 <div style="margin: auto;">
1149 <h4><a id="clone"></a>-clone <em class="arg">index(s)</em></h4>
1152 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>make a clone of an image (or images).</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1154 <p>Inside parenthesis (where the operator is normally used) it will make a
1155 clone of the images from the last 'pushed' image sequence, and adds them to
1156 the end of the current image sequence. Outside parenthesis
1157 (not recommended) it clones the images from the current image sequence. </p>
1159 <p>Specify the image by its index in the sequence. The first image is index
1160 0. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the sequence; for
1161 example, <kbd>−1</kbd>
1162 represents the last image of the sequence. Specify a range of images with a
1163 dash (e.g. <kbd>0−4</kbd>). Separate multiple indexes with commas but no
1164 spaces (e.g. <kbd>0,2,5</kbd>). A value of '<kbd>0−−1</kbd> will
1165 effectively clone all the images. </p>
1167 <p>The <a href="#clone">+clone</a> will simply make a copy of the last image
1168 in the image sequence, and is thus equivalent to using a argument of
1169 '<kbd>−1</kbd>'. </p>
1171 <div style="margin: auto;">
1172 <h4><a id="clut"></a>-clut</h4>
1175 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Replace the channel values in the first image using each
1176 corresponding channel in the second image as a <b>c</b>olor
1177 <b>l</b>ook<b>u</b>p <b>t</b>able.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1179 <p>The second (LUT) image is ordinarily a gradient image containing the
1180 histogram mapping of how each channel should be modified. Typically it is a
1181 either a single row or column image of replacement color values. If larger
1182 than a single row or column, values are taken from a diagonal line from
1183 top-left to bottom-right corners.</p>
1185 <p>The lookup is further controlled by the <a
1186 href="#interpolate">-interpolate</a> setting, which is especially handy for an
1187 LUT which is not the full length needed by the ImageMagick installed Quality
1188 (Q) level. Good settings for this are the '<kbd>bilinear</kbd>' and
1189 '<kbd>bicubic</kbd>' interpolation settings, which give smooth color
1190 gradients, and the '<kbd>integer</kbd>' setting for a direct, unsmoothed
1191 lookup of color values. </p>
1193 <p>This operator is especially suited to replacing a grayscale image with a
1194 specific color gradient from the CLUT image. </p>
1196 <p>Only the channel values defined by the <a href="#channel">-channel</a>
1197 setting will have their values replaced. In particular, since the default <a
1198 href="#channel">-channel</a> setting is <kbd>RGB</kbd>, this means that
1199 transparency (alpha/matte channel) is not affected, unless the <a
1200 href="#channel">-channel</a> setting is modified. When the alpha channel is
1201 set, it is treated by the <a href="#clut" >-clut</a> operator in the same way
1202 as the other channels, implying that alpha/matte values are replaced using the
1203 alpha/matte values of the original image. </p>
1205 <p>If either the image being modified, or the lookup image, contains no
1206 transparency (i.e. <a href="#alpha" >-alpha</a> is turned 'off') but the <a
1207 href="#channel">-channel</a> setting includes alpha replacement, then it is
1208 assumed that image represents a gray-scale gradient which is used for the
1209 replacement alpha values. That is you can use a gray-scale CLUT image to
1210 adjust a existing images alpha channel, or you can color a gray-scale image
1211 using colors form CLUT containing the desired colors, including transparency.
1214 <p>See also <a href="#hald-clut" >-hald-clut</a> which replaces colors
1215 according to the lookup of the full color RGB value from a 2D representation
1216 of a 3D color cube. </p>
1219 <div style="margin: auto;">
1220 <h4><a id="coalesce"></a>-coalesce</h4>
1223 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Fully define the look of each frame of an GIF animation sequence, to form a 'film strip' animation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1225 <p>Overlay each image in an image sequence according to
1226 its <a href="#dispose">-dispose</a> meta-data, to reproduce the look of
1227 an animation at each point in the animation sequence. All images should be
1228 the same size, and are assigned appropriate GIF disposal settings for the
1229 animation to continue working as expected as a GIF animation. Such frames
1230 are more easily viewed and processed than the highly optimized GIF overlay
1233 <p>The animation can be re-optimized after processing using
1234 the <a href="#layers">-layers</a> method '<kbd>optimize</kbd>', although
1235 there is no guarantee that the restored GIF animation optimization is
1236 better than the original. </p>
1239 <div style="margin: auto;">
1240 <h4><a id="colorize"></a>-colorize <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
1243 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Colorize the image by an amount specified by <em class="arg">value</em> using the color specified by the most recent <a href="#fill" >-fill</a> setting.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1245 <p>Specify the amount of colorization as a percentage. Separate colorization
1246 values can be applied to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with
1247 a comma-delimited list of colorization
1248 values (e.g., <kbd>-colorize 0,0,50</kbd>).</p>
1250 <div style="margin: auto;">
1251 <h4><a id="colormap"></a>-colormap <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
1254 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Define the colormap type.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
1256 <p>The <em class="arg">type</em> can be <kbd>shared</kbd> or <kbd>private</kbd>.</p>
1258 <p>This option only applies when the default X server visual
1259 is <kbd>PseudoColor</kbd> or <kbd>GrayScale</kbd>. Refer
1260 to <a href="#visual">-visual</a> for more details. By default,
1261 a shared colormap is allocated. The image shares colors with
1262 other X clients. Some image colors could be approximated,
1263 therefore your image may look very different than intended.
1264 If <kbd>private</kbd> is chosen, the image colors appear exactly
1265 as they are defined. However, other clients may go <em>technicolor</em>
1266 when the image colormap is installed.</p>
1268 <div style="margin: auto;">
1269 <h4><a id="colors"></a>-colors <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
1272 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the preferred number of colors in the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1274 <p>The actual number of colors in the image may be less than your request,
1275 but never more. Note that this a color reduction option. Images with fewer
1276 unique colors than specified by <em class="arg">value</em> will have any
1277 duplicate or unused colors removed. The ordering of an existing color
1278 palette may be altered. When converting an image from color to grayscale,
1279 it is more efficient to convert the image to the gray colorspace before
1280 reducing the number of colors. Refer to
1281 the <a href="../www/quantize.html">
1282 color reduction algorithm</a> for more details.</p>
1284 <div style="margin: auto;">
1285 <h4><a id="color-matrix"></a>-color-matrix <em class="arg">matrix</em></h4>
1288 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>apply color correction to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1290 <p>This option permits saturation changes, hue rotation, luminance to alpha,
1291 and various other effects. Although variable-sized transformation matrices
1292 can be used, typically one uses a 5x5 matrix for an RGBA image and a 6x6
1293 for CMYKA (or RGBA with offsets). The matrix is similar to those used by
1294 Adobe Flash except offsets are in column 6 rather than 5 (in support of
1295 CMYKA images) and offsets are normalized (divide Flash offset by 255).</p>
1297 <p>As an example, to add contrast to an image with offsets, try this command:</p>
1300 convert kittens.jpg -color-matrix \
1301 " 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1302 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1303 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0, 0.0, -0.157 \
1304 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 \
1305 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 \
1306 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0, 0.0, 1.0" kittens.png
1308 <div style="margin: auto;">
1309 <h4><a id="colorspace"></a>-colorspace <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
1312 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the image colorspace.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1319 OHTA Rec601Luma Rec601YCbCr Rec709Luma
1320 Rec709YCbCr RGB sRGB Transparent
1325 <p>To print a complete list of colorspaces, use <a href="#list">-list colorspace</a>.</p>
1327 <p>For a more accurate color conversion to or from the RGB, CMYK, or grayscale colorspaces, use the <a href="#profile">-profile</a> option.</p>
1330 <caption>Conversion Of RGB To Other Color Spaces</caption>
1331 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">CMY</th></tr>
1332 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">C=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−R</td></tr>
1333 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">M=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−G</td></tr>
1334 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−B</td></tr>
1335 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">CMYK — starts with CMY from above</th></tr>
1336 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">K=min(C,Y,M)</td></tr>
1337 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">C=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>*(C−K)/(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−K)</td></tr>
1338 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">M=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>*(M−K)/(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−K)</td></tr>
1339 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>*(Y−K)/(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>−K)</td></tr>
1341 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">Gray</th></tr>
1342 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Gray = 0.29900*R+0.58700*G+0.11400*B</td></tr>
1344 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">HSB — Hue, Saturation, Brightness; like a cone peak downward</th></tr>
1345 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">H=angle around perimeter (0 to 360 deg); H=0 is red; increasing angles toward green</td></tr>
1346 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">S=distance from axis outward</td></tr>
1347 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">B=distance along axis from bottom upward; B=max(R,G,B); <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1349 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">HSL — Hue, Saturation, Lightness; like a double cone end-to-end with peaks at very top and bottom</th></tr>
1350 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">H=angle around perimeter (0 to 360 deg); H=0 is red; increasing angles toward green</td></tr>
1351 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">S=distance from axis outward</td></tr>
1352 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">L=distance along axis from bottom upward; L=0.5*max(R,G,B) + 0.5*min(R,G,B); <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1354 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">HWB — Hue, Whiteness, Blackness</th></tr>
1355 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Hue (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1356 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Whiteness (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1357 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Blackness (complicated equation)</td></tr>
1359 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">LAB</th></tr>
1360 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">L (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1361 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">A (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1362 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">B (complicated equation relating X,Y,Z)</td></tr>
1364 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">LOG</th></tr>
1365 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I1 (complicated equation involving logarithm of R)</td></tr>
1366 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I2 (complicated equation involving logarithm of G)</td></tr>
1367 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I3 (complicated equation involving logarithm of B)</td></tr>
1369 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">OHTA — approximates principal components transformation</th></tr>
1370 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I1=0.33333*R+0.33334*G+0.33333*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1371 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I2=(0.50000*R+0.00000*G−0.50000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1372 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I3=(−0.25000*R+0.50000*G−0.25000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1374 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">Rec601Luma</th></tr>
1375 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Gray = 0.29900*R+0.58700*G+0.11400*B</td></tr>
1377 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">Rec601YCbCr</th></tr>
1378 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.299000*R+0.587000*G+0.114000*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1379 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cb=(−0.168736*R-0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1380 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1382 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">Rec709Luma</th></tr>
1383 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Gray=0.21260*R+0.71520*G+0.07220*B</td></tr>
1385 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">Rec709YCbCr</th></tr>
1386 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.212600*R+0.715200*G+0.072200*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1387 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cb=(−0.114572*R−0.385428*G+0.500000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1388 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.454153*G−0.045847*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1390 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">sRGB</th></tr>
1391 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">if Rs ≤ .04045 then Rs=R/12.92 else Rs=((R+.055)/1.055)^2.4</td></tr>
1392 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">if Gs ≤ .04045 then Gs=B/12.92 else Gs=((G+.055)/1.055)^2.4</td></tr>
1393 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">if Bs ≤ .04045 then Bs=B/12.92 else Bs=((B+.055)/1.055)^2.4</td></tr>
1395 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">XYZ</th></tr>
1396 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">X=0.4124240*R+0.3575790*G+0.1804640*B</td></tr>
1397 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.2126560*R+0.7151580*G+0.0721856*B</td></tr>
1398 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Z=0.0193324*R+0.1191930*G+0.9504440*B</td></tr>
1400 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">YCC</th></tr>
1401 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=(0.29900*R+0.58700*G+0.11400*B) (with complicated scaling); <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1402 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">C1=(−0.29900*R−0.58700*G+0.88600*B) (with complicated scaling)</td></tr>
1403 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">C2=(0.70100*R−0.58700*G−0.11400*B) (with complicated scaling)</td></tr>
1405 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">YCbCr</th></tr>
1406 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.299000*R+0.587000*G+0.114000*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1407 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cb=(−0.168736*R−0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1408 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Cr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1410 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">YIQ</th></tr>
1411 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.29900*R+0.58700*G+0.11400*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1412 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">I=(0.59600*R−0.27400*G−0.32200*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1413 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Q=(0.21100*R−0.52300*G+0.31200*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1415 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">YPbPr</th></tr>
1416 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.299000*R+0.587000*G+0.114000*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1417 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Pb=(−0.168736*R−0.331264*G+0.500000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1418 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Pr=(0.500000*R−0.418688*G−0.081312*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1420 <tr><th align="left" valign="middle">YUV</th></tr>
1421 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">Y=0.29900*R+0.58700*G+0.11400*B; <em>intensity-like</em></td></tr>
1422 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">U=(−0.14740*R−0.28950*G+0.43690*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1423 <tr><td align="left" valign="middle">V=(0.61500*R−0.51500*G−0.10000*B)*(<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>+1)/2</td></tr>
1426 <div style="margin: auto;">
1427 <h4><a id="combine"></a>-combine</h4>
1430 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Combine one or more images into a single image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1432 <p>The channels (previously set by <a href="#channel">-channel</a>) of the combined image are taken from the grayscale values of each image in the sequence, in order. For the default -channel setting of <kbd>RGB</kbd>, this means the first image is assigned to the <kbd>Red</kbd> channel, the second to the <kbd>Green</kbd> channel, the third to the <kbd>Blue</kbd>.</p>
1434 <p>This option can be thought of as the inverse to <a href="#separate">-separate</a>, so long as the channel settings are the same. Thus, in the following example, the final image should be a copy of the original.
1437 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert original.png -channel RGB -separate sepimage.png</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert sepimage-0.png sepimage-1.png sepimage-2.png -channel RGB \ <br/> -combine imagecopy.png</span></p>
1438 <div style="margin: auto;">
1439 <h4><a id="comment"></a>-comment <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
1442 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Embed a comment in an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1444 <p>This option sets the comment meta-data of an image read in after this
1445 option has been given. To modify a comment of images already in memory use
1446 "<kbd><a href="#set">-set</a> comment</kbd>". </p>
1448 <p>The comment can contain special format characters listed in the <a
1449 href="../www/escape.html">Format and
1450 Print Image Properties</a>. These attributes are expanded when the comment
1451 is finally assigned to the individual images. </p>
1453 <p>If the first character of <em class="arg">string</em> is <em
1454 class="arg">@</em>, the image comment is read from a file titled by the
1455 remaining characters in the string. Comments read in from a file are literal;
1456 no embedded formatting characters are recognized.</p>
1458 <p>Comment meta-data are not visible on the image itself. To do that use the
1459 <a href="#annotate">-annotate</a> or <a href="#draw">-draw</a> options
1465 -comment "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
1468 <p>produces an image comment of <kbd>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</kbd> (assuming
1469 that the image <kbd>bird.miff</kbd> has a width of 512 and a height of
1472 <div style="margin: auto;">
1473 <h4><a id="compose"></a>-compose <em class="arg">operator</em></h4>
1476 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the type of image composition.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1478 <p>See <a href="../www/compose.html">Alpha Compositing</a> for
1479 a detailed discussion of alpha compositing.</p>
1481 <p>This setting effects image processing operators that merge two (or more)
1482 images together in some way. This includes the operators,
1483 <a href="#composite">-composite</a>,
1484 <a href="#layers">-layers</a> composite,
1485 <a href="#flatten">-flatten</a>,
1486 <a href="#mosaic">-mosaic</a>,
1487 <a href="#layers">-layers</a> merge,
1488 <a href="#border">-border</a>,
1489 <a href="#frame">-frame</a>,
1490 and <a href="#extent">-extent</a>. </p>
1492 <p>It is also one of the primary options for the "<kbd>composite</kbd>"
1496 <div style="margin: auto;">
1497 <h4><a id="composite"></a>-composite</h4>
1500 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Perform alpha composition on two images and an optional mask</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1502 <p>Take the first image 'destination' and overlay the second 'source' image
1503 according to the current <a href="#compose">-compose</a> setting. The location
1504 of the 'source' or 'overlay' image is controlled according to <a
1505 href="#geometry" >-geometry</a>, and <a href="#geometry" >-geometry</a>
1508 <p>If a third image is given this is treated as a gray-scale 'mask' image
1509 relative to the first 'destination' image. This mask will limit what parts of
1510 the destination can be modified by the image composition. However for the
1511 '<kbd>displace</kbd>' compose method, the mask is used to provide a separate
1512 Y-displacement image instead. </p>
1514 <p>If a <a href="#compose">-compose</a> method requires extra numerical
1515 arguments or flags these can be provided by setting the <a
1516 href="#set">-set</a> '<kbd class="arg">option:compose:args</kbd>'
1517 appropriately for the compose method. </p>
1519 <p>Some <a href="#compose">-compose</a> methods can modify the 'destination'
1520 image outside the overlay area. You can disable this by setting the special <a
1521 href="#set">-set</a> '<kbd class="arg">option:compose:outside-overlay</kbd>'
1522 to '<kbd>false</kbd>'. </p>
1525 <div style="margin: auto;">
1526 <h4><a id="compress"></a>-compress <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
1529 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Use pixel compression specified by <em class="arg">type</em> when writing the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1531 <p>Choices are: <kbd class="arg">None</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">BZip</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">Fax</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">Group4</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">JPEG</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">JPEG2000</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">Lossless</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">LZW</kbd>, <kbd class="arg">RLE</kbd> or <kbd class="arg">Zip</kbd>.</p>
1533 <p>To print a complete list of compression types, use <a href="#list">-list compress</a>.</p>
1535 <p>Specify <a href="#compress">+compress</a> to store the binary image in an uncompressed format. The default is the compression type of the specified image file.</p>
1537 <p>If <kbd>LZW</kbd> compression is specified but LZW compression has not been enabled, the image data is written in an uncompressed LZW format that can be read by LZW decoders. This may result in larger-than-expected GIF files.</p>
1539 <p><kbd>Lossless</kbd> refers to lossless JPEG, which is only available if the
1540 JPEG library has been patched to support it. Use of lossless JPEG is generally
1541 not recommended.</p>
1544 When writing an ICO file, you may request that the images be encoded in
1545 PNG format, by specifying <kbd>Zip</kbd> compression.</p>
1548 When writing a JNG file, specify <kbd>Zip</kbd> compression to request that
1549 the alpha channel be encoded in PNG "IDAT" format, or <kbd>JPEG</kbd>
1550 to request that it be encoded in JPG "JDAA" format.</p>
1552 <p>Use the <a href="#quality">-quality</a> option to set the compression level
1553 to be used by JPEG, PNG, MIFF, and MPEG encoders.
1554 Use the <a href="#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> option to set the
1555 sampling factor to be used by JPEG, MPEG, and YUV encoders for down-sampling
1556 the chroma channels.</p>
1558 <div style="margin: auto;">
1559 <h4><a id="contrast"></a>-contrast</h4>
1562 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Enhance or reduce the image contrast.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1564 <p>This option enhances the intensity differences between the lighter and darker elements of the image. Use <a href="#contrast">-contrast</a> to enhance the image or <a href="#contrast">+contrast</a> to reduce the image contrast.</p>
1566 <p>For a more pronounced effect you can repeat the option:</p>
1568 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -contrast -contrast rose_c2.png</span></p>
1569 <div style="margin: auto;">
1570 <h4><a id="contrast-stretch"></a>-contrast-stretch <em class="arg">black-point</em><br />-contrast-stretch <em class="arg">black-point</em>{x<em class="arg">white-point</em>}{<em class="arg">%</em>}}</h4>
1573 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Increase the contrast in an image by <em>stretching</em> the range of intensity values.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1575 <p>While performing the stretch, black-out at most <em
1576 class="arg" >black-point</em> pixels and white-out at most <em
1577 class="arg" >white-point</em> pixels. Or, if percent is used, black-out at most
1578 <em class="arg" >black-point %</em> pixels and white-out at most <em
1579 class="arg" >white-point %</em> pixels.</p>
1581 <p>Prior to ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <a href="#contrast-stretch"
1582 >-contrast-stretch</a> will black-out at most <em class="arg"
1583 >black-point</em> pixels and white-out at most <em class="arg" >total pixels
1584 minus white-point</em> pixels. Or, if percent is used, black-out at most <em
1585 class="arg">black-point %</em> pixels and white-out at most <em class="arg"
1586 >100% minus white-point %</em> pixels.</p>
1588 <p>Note that <kbd>-contrast-stretch 0</kbd> will modify the image such that
1589 the image's min and max values are stretched to 0 and <em class="QR"
1590 >QuantumRange</em>, respectively, without any loss of data due to burn-out or
1591 clipping at either end. This is not the same as <a href="#normalize"
1592 >-normalize</a>, which is equivalent to <kbd>-contrast-stretch 0.15x0.05%</kbd> (or
1593 prior to ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <kbd>-contrast-stretch 2%x99%</kbd>).</p>
1595 <p>Internally operator works by creating a histogram bin, and then uses that
1596 bin to modify the image. As such some colors may be merged together when they
1597 originally fell into the same 'bin'. </p>
1599 <p>All the channels are normalized in concert by the came amount so as to
1600 preserve color integrity, when the default <a href="#channel" >+channel</a>
1601 setting is in use. Specifying any other <a href="#channel" >-channel</a>
1602 setting will normalize the RGB channels independently.</p>
1604 <p>See also <a href="#auto-level" >-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect'
1605 normalization of mathematical images. </p>
1607 <p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
1610 <div style="margin: auto;">
1611 <h4><a id="convolve"></a>-convolve <em class="arg">kernel</em></h4>
1614 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Convolve an image with a user-supplied convolution kernel.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1616 <p>The <em class="arg">kernel</em> is a matrix specified as
1617 a comma-separated list of integers (with no spaces), ordered left-to right,
1618 starting with the top row. Presently, only odd-dimensioned kernels are
1619 supported, and therefore the number of entries in the specified <em
1620 class="arg">kernel</em> must be 3<sup>2</sup>=9, 5<sup>2</sup>=25,
1621 7<sup>2</sup>=49, etc. </p>
1623 <p>Note that the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#convolve">‑convolve</a> operator supports the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> setting. This option shifts the convolution so that
1624 positive and negative results are relative to a user-specified bias value.
1625 This is important for non-HDRI compilations of ImageMagick when dealing with
1626 convolutions that contain negative as well as positive values. This is
1627 especially the case with convolutions involving high pass filters or edge
1628 detection. Without an output bias, the negative values is clipped at zero.
1631 <p>When using an ImageMagick with the HDRI compile-time setting, <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#bias">‑bias</a> is not needed, as ImageMagick is able to store/handle any
1632 negative results without clipping to the color value range (0..QuantumRange).
1633 See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page <a
1634 href="../www/high-dynamic-range.html">High
1635 Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a
1636 href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages or this
1637 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a>
1641 <div style="margin: auto;">
1642 <h4><a id="crop"></a>-crop <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
1645 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Cut out one or more rectangular regions of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1647 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
1649 <p>The <em class="arg">width</em> and <em class="arg">height</em> of the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument give the size of the image that remains after cropping, and <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em> in the <em class="arg">offset</em> (if present) gives the location of the top left corner of the cropped image with respect to the original image. To specify the amount to be removed, use <a href="#shave">-shave</a> instead.</p>
1651 <p>If the <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em> offsets are present, a single image is generated, consisting of the pixels from the cropping region. The offsets specify the location of the upper left corner of the cropping region measured downward and rightward with respect to the upper left corner of the image. If the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option is present with <kbd>NorthEast</kbd>, <kbd>East</kbd>, or <kbd>SouthEast</kbd> gravity, it gives the distance leftward from the right edge of the image to the right edge of the cropping region. Similarly, if the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option is present with <kbd>SouthWest</kbd>, <kbd>South</kbd>, or <kbd>SouthEast</kbd> gravity, the distance is measured upward between the bottom edges.</p>
1653 <p>If the <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em> offsets are omitted, a set of tiles of the specified geometry, covering the entire input image, is generated. The rightmost tiles and the bottom tiles are smaller if the specified geometry extends beyond the dimensions of the input image.</p>
1655 <p>By adding a exclamation character flag to the geometry argument, the
1656 cropped images virtual canvas page size and offset is set as if the
1657 geometry argument was a viewport or window. This means the canvas page size
1658 is set to exactly the same size you specified, the image offset set
1659 relative top left corner of the region cropped. </p>
1661 <p>If the cropped image 'missed' the actual image on its virtual canvas, a
1662 special single pixel transparent 'missed' image is returned, and a 'crop
1663 missed' warning given. </p>
1665 <p>It might be necessary to <a href="#repage" >+repage</a> the image prior to
1666 cropping the image to ensure the crop coordinate frame is relocated to the
1667 upper-left corner of the visible image. This is especially true when you are
1668 going to write to an image format such as PNG that supports an image
1671 <div style="margin: auto;">
1672 <h4><a id="cycle"></a>-cycle <em class="arg">amount</em></h4>
1675 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>displace image colormap by amount.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1677 <p><em class="arg">Amount</em> defines the number of positions each
1678 colormap entry is shifted.</p>
1681 <div style="margin: auto;">
1682 <h4><a id="debug"></a>-debug <em class="arg">events</em></h4>
1685 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>enable debug printout.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1687 <p>The <kbd>events</kbd> parameter specifies which events are to be logged. It can be either <kbd>None</kbd>, <kbd>All</kbd>, <kbd>Trace</kbd>, or a comma-separated list consisting of one or more of the following domains: <kbd>Accelerate</kbd>, <kbd>Annotate</kbd>, <kbd>Blob</kbd>, <kbd>Cache</kbd>, <kbd>Coder</kbd>, <kbd>Configure</kbd>, <kbd>Deprecate</kbd>, <kbd>Exception</kbd>, <kbd>Locale</kbd>, <kbd>Render</kbd>, <kbd>Resource</kbd>, <kbd>Security</kbd>, <kbd>TemporaryFile</kbd>, <kbd>Transform</kbd>, <kbd>X11</kbd>, or <kbd>User</kbd>. </p>
1690 <p>For example, to log cache and blob events, use.</p>
1692 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -debug "Cache,Blob" rose: rose.png</span></p>
1693 <p>The <kbd>User</kbd> domain is normally empty, but developers can log user events in their private copy of ImageMagick.</p>
1695 <p>To print the complete list of debug methods, use <a href="#list">-list debug</a>.</p>
1697 <p>Use the <a href="#log">-log</a> option to specify the format for debugging output.</p>
1699 <p>Use <a href="#debug">+debug</a> to turn off all logging.</p>
1701 <p>Debugging may also be set using the <kbd>MAGICK_DEBUG</kbd> <a href="../www/resources.html#environment">environment variable</a>. The allowed values for the <kbd>MAGICK_DEBUG</kbd> environment variable are the same as for the <a href="#debug">-debug</a> option.</p>
1704 <div style="margin: auto;">
1705 <h4><a id="decipher"></a>-decipher <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
1708 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Decipher and restore pixels that were previously transformed by <a href="#encipher">-encipher</a>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1710 <p>Get the passphrase from the file specified by <em class="arg">filename</em>.</p>
1712 <p>For more information, see the webpage, <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/cipher.html">ImageMagick: Encipher or Decipher an Image</a>.</p>
1715 <div style="margin: auto;">
1716 <h4><a id="deconstruct"></a>-deconstruct</h4>
1719 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>find areas that has changed between images </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1721 <p>Given a sequence of images all the same size, such as produced by <a href="#coalesce">-coalesce</a>, replace the second and later images, with a smaller image of just the area that changed relative to the previous image. </p>
1723 <p>The resulting sequence of images can be used to optimize an animation sequence, though will not work correctly for GIF animations when parts of the animation can go from opaque to transparent. </p>
1725 <p>This option is actually equivalent to the <a href="#layers">-layers</a> method '<kbd>compare-any</kbd>'. </p>
1728 <div style="margin: auto;">
1729 <h4><a id="define"></a>-define <em class="arg">key</em>{<em class="arg">=value</em>}<em class="arg">...</em></h4>
1732 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>add specific global settings generally used to control
1733 coders and image processing operations.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1735 <p>This option creates one or more definitions for coders and decoders to use
1736 while reading and writing image data. Definitions are generally used to
1737 control image file format coder modules, and image processing operations,
1738 beyond what is provided by normal means. Defined settings are listed in <a
1739 href="#verbose" >-verbose</a> information ("<kbd>info:</kbd>" output format)
1740 as "Artifacts". </p>
1742 <p>If <em class="arg">value</em> is missing for a definition, an empty-valued
1743 definition of a flag is created with that name. This used to control on/off
1744 options. Use <a href="#define">+define key</a> to remove definitions
1745 previously created. Use <a href="#define">+define "*"</a> to remove all
1746 existing definitions.</p>
1748 <p>The same 'artifact' settings can also be defined using the <a
1749 href="#set" >-set "option:<em class="arg">key</em>" "<em class="arg"
1750 >value</em>"</a> option, which also allows the use of <a href="../www/escape.html" >Format and Print Image
1751 Properties</a> in the defined value. </p>
1753 <p>The <em>option</em> and <em>key</em> are case-independent (they are
1754 converted to lowercase for use within the decoders) while the <em>value</em>
1755 is case-dependent.</p>
1757 <p>Such settings are global in scope, and effect all images and operations. </p>
1759 <p>The following definitions are just some of the artifacts that are
1764 <dt>compose:args=<em class="arg">arguments</em></dt>
1765 <dd>Sets certain compose argument values when using convert ... -compose ... -composite. See <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/compose.html">Image Composition</a></dd>
1767 <dt>distort:scale=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1768 <dd>Sets the output scaling factor for use with <a href="#distort">-distort</a></dd>
1770 <dt>distort:viewport=WxH+X+Y</dt>
1771 <dd>Sets the viewport for use with <a href="#distort">-distort</a></dd>
1773 <dt>dcm:display-range=reset</dt>
1774 <dd>Set the display range to the minimum and maximum pixel values for the
1775 DCM image format.</dd>
1777 <dt>dot:layout-engine=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1778 <dd>Set the specify the layout engine for the DOT image format (e.g.
1779 <kbd>neato</kbd>).</dd>
1781 <dt>jpeg:extent=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1782 <dd>Restrict the maximum JPEG file size, for example <kbd>-define
1783 jpeg:extent=400kb</kbd>.</dd>
1785 <dt>jpeg:size=<em class="arg">geometry</em></dt>
1786 <dd>Set the size hint of a JPEG image, for example, -define jpeg:size=128x128.
1787 It is most useful for increasing performance and reducing the memory
1788 requirements when reducing the size of a large JPEG image.</dd>
1790 <dt>jp2:rate=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1791 <dd>Specify the compression factor to use while writing JPEG-2000 files. The
1792 compression factor is the reciprocal of the compression ratio. The valid
1793 range is 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 indicating lossless compression. If defined,
1794 this value overrides the -quality setting. A quality setting of 75
1795 results in a rate value of 0.06641.</dd>
1797 <dt>mng:need-cacheoff</dt>
1798 <dd>turn playback caching off for streaming MNG.</dd>
1800 <dt>png:bit-depth=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1801 <dt>png:color-type=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1802 <dd>desired bit-depth and color-type for PNG output. You can force the PNG
1803 encoder to use a different bit-depth and color-type than it would have
1804 normally selected, but only if this does not cause any loss of image
1805 quality. Any attempt to reduce image quality is treated as an error and no
1806 PNG file is written. E.g., if you have a 1-bit black-and-white image, you
1807 can use these "defines" to cause it to be written as an 8-bit grayscale,
1808 indexed, or even a 64-bit RGBA. But if you have a 16-million color image,
1809 you cannot force it to be written as a grayscale or indexed PNG. If you
1810 wish to do this, you must use the appropriate <a href="#depth">-depth</a>,
1811 <a href="#colors">-colors</a>, or <a href="#type">-type</a> directives to
1812 reduce the image quality prior to using the PNG encoder. Note that in
1813 indexed PNG files, "bit-depth" refers to the number of bits per index,
1814 which can be 1, 2, 4, or 8. In such files, the color samples always have
1817 <dt>png:compression-filter=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1818 <dd> valid values are 0 through 7. 0-4 are the corresponding PNG filters,
1819 5 means adaptive filtering except for images with a colormap, 6 means
1820 adaptive filtering for all images, 7 means MNG "loco" compression.</dd>
1822 <dt>png:compression-level=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1823 <dd> valid values are 0 through 9, with 0 providing the least but fastest
1824 compression and 9 usually providing the best and always the slowest.</dd>
1826 <dt>png:compression-strategy=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1827 <dd> valid values are 0 through 4, meaning default, filtered, huffman_only,
1828 rle, and fixed ZLIB compression strategy. If you are using an old zlib
1829 that does not support Z_RLE (before 1.2.0) or Z_FIXED (before 1.2.2.2),
1830 values 3 and 4, respectively, will use the zlib default strategy
1833 <dt>png:format=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1834 <dd> valid values are <em class="arg">png8</em>, <em class="arg">png24</em>,
1835 and <em class="arg">png32</em>. This property can be useful for specifying
1836 the specific PNG format to be used, when the usual method of prepending the
1837 format name to the output filename is inconvenient, such as when writing
1838 a PNG-encoded ICO file.</dd>
1840 <dt>png:exclude-chunk=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1841 <dt>png:include-chunk=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1842 <dd>ancillary chunks to be excluded from or included in PNG output.
1844 <p>The<em class="arg">value</em> can be the name of a PNG chunk-type such
1845 as <em class="arg">bKGD</em>, a comma-separated list of chunk-types,
1846 or the word <em class="arg">all</em> or
1847 the word <em class="arg">none</em>. There must be no spaces in the
1848 list. Although PNG chunk-names are case-dependent, you can use
1849 all lowercase names if you prefer.</p>
1851 <p>The "include-chunk" and "exclude-chunk" lists only affect the behavior
1852 of the PNG encoder and have no effect on the PNG decoder.</p>
1854 <p>As a special case, if the <kbd>sRGB</kbd> chunk is excluded and
1855 the <kbd>gAMA</kbd> chunk is included, the <kbd>gAMA</kbd> chunk will
1856 only be written if gamma is not 1/2.2, since most decoders assume
1857 sRGB and gamma=1/2.2 when no colorspace information is included in
1858 the PNG file. Because the list is processed from left to right, you
1859 can achieve this with a single define:</p>
1862 -define png:include-chunk=none,gAMA
1865 <p>As a special case, if the <kbd>sRGB</kbd> chunk is not excluded and
1866 the PNG encoder recognizes that the image contains the sRGB ICC profile,
1867 the PNG encoder will write the <kbd>sRGB</kbd> chunk instead of the entire
1868 3144-byte ICC profile. To force the PNG encoder to write the sRGB
1869 profile as an <kbd>iCCP</kbd> chunk in the output PNG instead of the
1870 <kbd>sRGB</kbd> chunk, exclude the <kbd>sRGB</kbd> chunk.</p>
1872 <p>The critical PNG chunks <kbd>IHDR</kbd>, <kbd>PLTE</kbd>,
1873 <kbd>IDAT</kbd>, and <kbd>IEND</kbd> cannot be excluded. Any such
1874 entries appearing in the list will be ignored.</p>
1876 <p>If the ancillary PNG <kbd>tRNS</kbd> chunk is excluded and the
1877 image has transparency, the PNG colortype is forced to be 4 or 6
1878 (GRAY_ALPHA or RGBA). If the image is not transparent, then the
1879 <kbd>tRNS</kbd> chunk isn't written anyhow, and there is no effect
1880 on the PNG colortype of the output image.</p>
1882 <p>The <a href="#strip">-strip</a> option does the equivalent of the
1883 following for PNG output:</p>
1886 -define png:include-chunk=none,trns,gama
1889 <p>The default behavior is to include all known PNG ancillary chunks
1890 plus ImageMagick's private <kbd>vpAg</kbd> ("virtual page") chunk,
1891 and to exclude all PNG chunks that are unknown to ImageMagick,
1892 regardless of their PNG "copy-safe" status as described in the
1893 PNG specification.</p>
1895 <p>Any chunk names that are not known to ImageMagick are ignored
1896 if they appear in either the "include-chunk" or "exclude-chunk" list.
1897 The ancillary chunks currently known to ImageMagick are
1898 <kbd>bKGD</kbd>, <kbd>cHRM</kbd>, <kbd>gAMA</kbd>, <kbd>iCCP</kbd>,
1899 <kbd>oFFs</kbd>, <kbd>pHYs</kbd>, <kbd>sRGB</kbd>, <kbd>tEXt</kbd>,
1900 <kbd>tRNS</kbd>, <kbd>vpAg</kbd>, and <kbd>zTXt</kbd>.</p>
1902 <p>You can also put <kbd>date</kbd> in the list to include or exclude
1903 the "Date:create" and "Date:modify" text chunks that ImageMagick normally
1904 inserts in the output PNG.</p>
1908 <dt>png:preserve-colormap</dt>
1909 <dd>Use the existing image->colormap. Normally the PNG encoder will
1910 try to optimize the palette, eliminating unused entries and putting
1911 the transparent colors first. If this flag is set, that behavior
1914 <dt>ps:imagemask</dt>
1915 <dd>If the ps:imagemask flag is defined, the PS3 and EPS3 coders will create
1916 Postscript files that render bilevel images with the Postscript imagemask
1917 operator instead of the image operator.</dd>
1919 <dt>quantum:format=<em class="arg">type</em></dt>
1920 <dd>Set the type to <kbd>floating-point</kbd> to specify a floating-point
1921 format for raw files (e.g. GRAY:) or for MIFF and TIFF images in HDRI mode
1922 to preserve negative values. If <a href="#depth">-depth</a> 16 is
1923 included, the result is a single precision floating point format.
1924 If <a href="#depth">-depth</a> 32 is included, the result is
1925 double precision floating point format.</dd>
1927 <dt>showkernel=1</em></dt>
1928 <dd>Outputs (to 'standard error') all the information about a generated <a href="#morphology">-morphology</a> kernel.</dd>
1930 <dt>tiff:quantum:polarity=min-is-black
1932 tiff:quantum:polarity=min-is-white</dt>
1933 <dd>Toggles the photometric interpretation</dd>
1935 <dt>tiff:rows-per-strip=<em class="arg">value</em></dt>
1936 <dd>Sets the number of rows per strip</dd>
1938 <dt>tiff:tile-geometry=<em class="arg">WxH</em></dt>
1939 <dd>Sets the tile size for pyramid tiffs. Requires the suffix PTIF: before the outputname</dd>
1944 <p>For example, to create a postscript file that will render only the black
1945 pixels of a bilevel image, use:</p>
1947 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert bilevel.tif -define ps:imagemask eps3:stencil.ps</span></p>
1948 <p>Set attributes of the image registry by prefixing the value with
1949 <kbd>registry:</kbd>. For example, to set a temporary path to put work files,
1953 -define registry:temporary-path=/data/tmp
1958 <div style="margin: auto;">
1959 <h4><a id="delay"></a>-delay <em class="arg">ticks</em> <br />-delay <em class="arg">ticks</em>x<em class="arg">ticks-per-second</em> {<em class="arg"><</em>} {<em class="arg">></em>}</h4>
1962 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>display the next image after pausing.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1964 <p>This option is useful for regulating the animation of image sequences <em>ticks/ticks-per-second</em> seconds must expire before the display of the next image. The default is no delay between each showing of the image sequence. The default ticks-per-second is 100.</p>
1966 <p>Use <kbd>></kbd> to change the image delay <em>only</em> if its current value exceeds the given delay. <kbd><</kbd> changes the image delay <em>only</em> if current value is less than the given delay. For example, if you specify <kbd>30></kbd> and the image delay is 20, the image delay does not change. However, if the image delay is 40 or 50, the delay it is changed to 30. Enclose the given delay in quotation marks to prevent the <kbd><</kbd> or <kbd>></kbd> from being interpreted by your shell as a file redirection.</p>
1969 <div style="margin: auto;">
1970 <h4><a id="delete"></a>-delete <em class="arg">indexes</em></h4>
1973 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>delete the image, specified by its index, from the image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1975 <p>Specify the image by its index in the sequence. The first image is index 0. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the sequence, for example, -1 represents the last image of the sequence. Specify a range of images with a dash (e.g. 0-4). Separate indexes with a comma (e.g. 0,2). Use <kbd>+delete</kbd> to delete the last image in the current image sequence.</p>
1978 <div style="margin: auto;">
1979 <h4><a id="density"></a>-density <em class="arg">width</em><br />-density <em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em></h4>
1982 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the horizontal and vertical resolution of an image for rendering to devices.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1984 <p>This option specifies the image resolution to store while encoding a raster image or the canvas resolution while rendering (reading) vector formats such as Postscript, PDF, WMF, and SVG into a raster image. Image resolution provides the unit of measure to apply when rendering to an output device or raster image. The default unit of measure is in dots per inch (DPI). The <a href="#units">-units</a> option may be used to select dots per centimeter instead.</p>
1986 <p>The default resolution is 72 dots per inch, which is equivalent to one point per pixel (Macintosh and Postscript standard). Computer screens are normally 72 or 96 dots per inch, while printers typically support 150, 300, 600, or 1200 dots per inch. To determine the resolution of your display, use a ruler to measure the width of your screen in inches, and divide by the number of horizontal pixels (1024 on a 1024x768 display).</p>
1988 <p>If the file format supports it, this option may be used to update the stored image resolution. Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image resolution from a proprietary embedded profile. If this profile is not stripped from the image, then Photoshop will continue to treat the image using its former resolution, ignoring the image resolution specified in the standard file header.</p>
1990 <p>The <a href="#density">-density</a> option sets an <em>attribute</em> and does not alter the underlying raster image. It may be used to adjust the rendered size for desktop publishing purposes by adjusting the scale applied to the pixels. To resize the image so that it is the same size at a different resolution, use the <a href="#resample">-resample</a> option.</p>
1992 <div style="margin: auto;">
1993 <h4><a id="depth"></a>-depth <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
1996 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>depth of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
1998 <p>This the number of bits in a color sample within a pixel. Use this option to specify the depth of raw images whose depth is unknown such as GRAY, RGB, or CMYK, or to change the depth of any image after it has been read.</p>
2000 <div style="margin: auto;">
2001 <h4><a id="descend"></a>-descend</h4>
2004 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>obtain image by descending window hierarchy.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2006 <div style="margin: auto;">
2007 <h4><a id="deskew"></a>-deskew <em class="arg">threshold</em></h4>
2010 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>straighten an image. A threshold of 40% works for most images.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2012 <p>Use <a href="#set">-set</a> <kbd>option:deskew:auto-crop <em>width</em></kbd> to auto crop the image. The set argument is the pixel width of the image background (e.g 40).</p>
2014 <div style="margin: auto;">
2015 <h4><a id="despeckle"></a>-despeckle</h4>
2018 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>reduce the speckles within an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2020 <div style="margin: auto;">
2021 <h4><a id="direction"></a>-direction <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
2024 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>render text right-to-left or left-to-right.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2026 <div style="margin: auto;">
2027 <h4><a id="displace"></a>-displace <em class="arg">horizontal-scale</em><br />-displace <em class="arg">horizontal-scale</em>x<em class="arg">vertical-scale</em></h4>
2030 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>shift image pixels as defined by a displacement map.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
2032 <p>With this option, the 'overlay' image, and optionally the 'mask' image,
2033 is used as a displacement map, which is used to displace the lookup of
2034 what part of the 'background' image is seen at each point of the overlaid
2035 area. Much like the displacement map is a 'lens' that redirects light shining
2036 through it so as to present a distorted view the original 'background' image
2039 <p>Any perfect grey areas of the displacement map produce a zero
2040 displacement of the image. Black areas produce the given maximum negative
2041 displacement of the lookup point, while white produce a maximum positive
2042 displacement of the lookup. </p>
2044 <p>Note that it is the lookup of the 'background' that is displaced, not a
2045 displacement of the image itself. As such an area of the displacement map
2046 containing 'white' will have the lookup point 'shifted' by a positive amount,
2047 and thus generating a copy of the destination image to the right/downward from
2048 the correct position. That is the image will look like it may have been
2049 'shifted' in a negative left/upward direction. Understanding this is a very
2050 important in understanding how displacement maps work. </p>
2052 <p>The given arguments define the maximum amount of displacement in pixels
2053 that a particular map can produce. If the displacement scale is large enough
2054 it is also possible to lookup parts of the 'background' image that lie well
2055 outside the bounds of the displacement map itself. That is you could very
2056 easily copy a section of the original image from outside the overlay area
2057 into the overlay area. </p>
2059 <p>The '%' flag makes the displacement scale relative to the size of the
2060 overlay image (100% = half width/height of image). Using '!' switches
2061 percentage arguments to refer to the destination image size instead.
2062 these flags were added as of IM v6.5.3-5.</p>
2064 <p>Normally a single grayscale displacement map is provided, which with the
2065 given scaling values will determine a single direction (vector) in which
2066 displacements can occur (positively or negatively). However, if you also
2067 specify a third image which is normally used as a <em class="arg">mask</em>,
2068 the <em class="arg">composite image</em> is used for horizontal X
2069 displacement, while the <em class="arg">mask image</em> is used for vertical Y
2070 displacement. This allows you to define completely different displacement
2071 values for the X and Y directions, and allowing you to lookup any point within
2072 the <em class="arg">scale</em> bounds. In other words each pixel can lookup
2073 any other nearby pixel, producing complex 2 dimensional displacements, rather
2074 than a simple 1 dimensional vector displacements. </p>
2076 <p>Alternatively rather than supplying two separate images, as of IM v6.4.4-0,
2077 you can use the 'red' channel of the overlay image to specify the horizontal
2078 or X displacement, and the 'green' channel for the vertical or Y displacement.
2081 <p>As of IM v6.5.3-5 any alpha channel in the overlay image is used as a
2082 mask the transparency of the destination image. However areas outside the
2083 overlaid areas will not be effected. </p>
2086 <div style="margin: auto;">
2087 <h4><a id="display"></a>-display <em class="arg">host:display[.screen]</em></h4>
2090 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specifies the X server to contact.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
2092 <p>This option is used with convert for obtaining image or font from this X server. See <em class="arg">X(1)</em>.</p>
2094 <div style="margin: auto;">
2095 <h4><a id="dispose"></a>-dispose <em class="arg">method</em></h4>
2098 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>define the GIF disposal image setting for images that are being created or read in. </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2100 <p>The layer disposal method defines the way each the displayed image is to be
2101 modified after the current 'frame' of an animation has finished being
2102 displayed (after its 'delay' period), but before the next frame on an
2103 animation is to be overlaid onto the display. </p>
2105 <p>Here are the valid methods:</p>
2108 Undefined 0 No disposal specified (equivalent to '<kbd>none</kbd>').
2109 None 1 Do not dispose, just overlay next frame image.
2110 Background 2 Clear the frame area with the background color.
2111 Previous 3 Clear to the image prior to this frames overlay.
2114 <p>You can also use the numbers given above, which is what the GIF format
2115 uses internally to represent the above settings. </p>
2117 <p>To print a complete list of dispose methods, use <a href="#list">-list dispose</a>.</p>
2119 <p>Use <a href="#dispose" >+dispose</a>, turn off the setting and prevent
2120 resetting the layer disposal methods of images being read in. </p>
2122 <p>Use <a href="#set">-set</a> '<kbd>dispose</kbd>' method to set the image
2123 disposal method for images already in memory.</p>
2125 <div style="margin: auto;">
2126 <h4><a id="dissimilarity-threshold"></a>-dissimilarity-threshold <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
2129 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>maximum RMSE for subimage match (default 0.2).</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/compare.html">compare</a>]</td></tr></table>
2132 <div style="margin: auto;">
2133 <h4><a id="dissolve"></a>-dissolve <em class="arg">src_percent</em>[x<em class="arg">dst_percent</em>]</h4>
2136 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>dissolve an image into another by the given percent.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
2138 <p>The opacity of the composite image is multiplied by the given percent, then
2139 it is composited 'over' the main image. If <em class="arg">src_percent</em>
2140 is greater than 100, start dissolving the main image so it becomes
2141 transparent at a value of '<kbd class="arg">200</kbd>'. If both percentages
2142 are given, each image are dissolved to the percentages given. </p>
2144 <p>Note that dissolve percentages do not add, two opaque images dissolved
2145 '50,50', produce a 75% transparency. For a 50% + 50% blending of the two
2146 images, you would need to use dissolve values of '50,100'. </p>
2148 <div style="margin: auto;">
2149 <h4><a id="distort"></a>-distort <em class="arg">method arguments</em></h4>
2152 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>distort an image, using the given <em class="arg">method</em> and its required <em class="arg">arguments</em>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2154 <p>The <em class="arg">arguments</em> is a single string containing a list
2155 of floating point numbers separated by commas or spaces. The number of
2156 and meaning of the floating point values depends on the distortion <em
2157 class="arg">method</em> being used. </p>
2159 <p>Choose from these distortion types:</p>
2163 <th align="left" style="width: 8%">Method</th>
2164 <th align="left">Description</th>
2168 <td valign="top"><kbd>ScaleRotateTranslate</kbd>
2169 <br/>or <kbd>SRT</kbd></td>
2171 Distort image by first scaling and rotating about a given 'center',
2172 before translating that 'center' to the new location, in that order. It
2173 is an alternative method of specifying a '<kbd>Affine</kbd>' type of
2174 distortion, but without shearing effects. It also provides a good way
2175 of rotating and displacing a smaller image for tiling onto a larger
2176 background (IE 2-dimensional animations). <br/>
2178 The number of arguments determine the specific meaning of each
2179 argument for the scales, rotation, and translation operations. <br/>
2181 <table style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">
2182 <tr><td># </td><td>arguments meaning</td></tr>
2183 <tr><td>1:</td><td><em>Angle_of_Rotation</em></td></tr>
2184 <tr><td>2:</td><td><em>Scale Angle</em></td></tr>
2185 <tr><td>3:</td><td><em>X,Y Angle</em></td></tr>
2186 <tr><td>4:</td><td><em>X,Y Scale Angle</em></td></tr>
2188 <td><em>X,Y ScaleX,ScaleY Angle</em></td></tr>
2190 <td><em>X,Y Scale Angle NewX,NewY</em></td></tr>
2192 <td><em>X,Y ScaleX,ScaleY Angle
2193 NewX,NewY</em></td></tr>
2196 This is actually an alternative way of specifying a 2 dimensional linear
2197 '<kbd>Affine</kbd>' or '<kbd>AffineProjection</kbd>' distortion. </td> </tr>
2200 <td valign="top"><kbd>Affine</kbd></td>
2202 Distort the image linearly by moving a list of at least 3 or more sets
2203 of control points (as defined below). Ideally 3 sets or 12 floating
2204 point values are given allowing the image to be linearly scaled,
2205 rotated, sheared, and translated, according to those three points. See
2206 also the related '<kbd>AffineProjection</kbd>' and '<kbd>SRT</kbd>'
2209 More than 3 sets given control point pairs (12 numbers) is least
2210 squares fitted to best match a linear affine distortion. If only 2
2211 control point pairs (8 numbers) are given a two point image translation
2212 rotation and scaling is performed, without any possible shearing,
2213 flipping or changes in aspect ratio to the resulting image. If only one
2214 control point pair is provides the image is only translated, (which may
2215 be a floating point non-integer translation). <br/>
2217 This distortion does not include any form of perspective distortion.
2223 <td valign="top"><kbd>AffineProjection</kbd></td>
2225 Linearly distort an image using the given Affine Matrix of 6
2226 pre-calculated coefficients forming a set of Affine Equations to map
2227 the source image to the destination image.
2229 <div style="text-align: center"><em>
2230 s<sub>x</sub>, r<sub>x</sub>,
2231 r<sub>y</sub>, s<sub>y</sub>,
2232 t<sub>x</sub>, t<sub>y</sub>
2235 See <a href="#affine" >-affine</a> setting for more detail, and
2236 meanings of these coefficients. <br/>
2238 The distortions '<kbd>Affine</kbd>' and '<kbd>SRT</kbd>' provide
2239 alternative methods of defining this distortion, with ImageMagick doing
2240 the calculations needed to generate the required coefficients. You can
2241 see the internally generated coefficients, by using a <a
2242 href="#verbose" >-verbose</a> setting with those other variants. </td>
2247 <td valign="top"><kbd>BilinearForward</kbd><br/>
2248 <kbd>BilinearReverse</kbd></td>
2250 Bilinear Distortion, given a minimum of 4 sets of coordinate pairs, or
2251 16 values (see below). Not that lines may not appear straight after
2252 distortion, though the distance between coordinates will remain
2255 The '<kbd>BilinearForward</kbd>' is used to map rectangles to any
2256 quadrilateral, while the '<kbd>BilinearReverse</kbd>' form maps any
2257 quadrilateral to a rectangle, while preserving the straight line edges
2260 Note that '<kbd>BilinearForward</kbd>' can generate invalid pixels
2261 which will be colored using the <a href="#mattecolor" >-mattecolor</a>
2262 color setting. Also if the quadrilateral becomes 'flipped' the image
2263 may disappear. <br/>
2265 There are future plans to produce a true Bilinear distortion that will
2266 attempt to map any quadrilateral to any other quadrilateral, while
2267 preserving edges (and edge distance ratios).
2273 <td valign="top"><kbd>Perspective</kbd></td>
2275 Perspective distort the images, using a list of 4 or more sets of
2276 control points (as defined below). More that 4 sets (16 numbers) of
2277 control points provide least squares fitting for more accurate
2278 distortions (for the purposes of image registration and panorama
2279 effects). Less than 4 sets will fall back to a '<kbd>Affine</kbd>'
2280 linear distortion. <br/>
2282 Perspective Distorted images ensures that straight lines remain
2283 straight, but the scale of the distorted image will vary. The horizon
2284 is anti-aliased, and the 'sky' color may be set using the
2285 <a href="#mattecolor" >-mattecolor</a> setting. </td>
2289 <td valign="top"><kbd>PerspectiveProjection</kbd> </td>
2291 Do a '<kbd>Perspective</kbd>' distortion biased on a set of 8
2292 pre-calculated coefficients. You can get these coefficients by looking
2293 at the <a href="#verbose" >-verbose</a> output of a
2294 '<kbd>Perspective</kbd>' distortion, or by calculating them yourself.
2295 If the last two perspective scaling coefficients are zero, the
2296 remaining 6 represents a transposed 'Affine Matrix'. </td>
2301 <td valign="top"><kbd>Arc</kbd></td>
2303 Arc the image (variation of polar mapping) over the angle given around
2305 <table width="90%" style = "margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
2306 <tr valign="top"><td>Argument</td>
2307 <td>Meaning</td></tr>
2308 <tr valign="top"><td><em>arc_angle</em></td>
2309 <td>The angle over which to arc the image side-to-side</td></tr>
2310 <tr valign="top"><td><em>rotate_angle</em></td>
2311 <td>Angle to rotate resulting image from vertical center</td></tr>
2312 <tr valign="top"><td><em>top_radius</em></td>
2313 <td>Set top edge of source image at this radius</td></tr>
2314 <tr valign="top"><td><em>bottom_radius</em> </td>
2315 <td>Set bottom edge to this radius (radial scaling)</td></tr>
2318 The resulting image is always resized to best fit the resulting image,
2319 (as if using <a href="#distort" >+distort</a>) while attempting to
2320 preserve scale and aspect ratio of the original image as much as
2321 possible with the arguments given by the user. All four arguments will
2322 be needed to change the overall aspect ratio of an 'Arc'ed image. <br/>
2324 This a variation of a polar distortion designed to try to preserve the
2325 aspect ratio of the image rather than direct Cartesian to Polar
2330 <td valign="top"><kbd>Polar</kbd></td>
2332 Like '<kbd>Arc</kbd>' but do a complete Cartesian to Polar mapping of
2333 the image. that is the height of the input image is mapped to the
2334 radius limits, while the width is wrapped around between the
2337 Arguments: <em>Rmax,Rmin CenterX,CenterY, start,end_angle</em> <br/>
2339 All arguments are optional. With <em>Rmin</em> defaulting to zero, the
2340 center to the center of the image, and the angles going from -180 (top)
2341 to +180 (top). If <em>Rmax</em> is given the special value of
2342 '<code>0</code>', the the distance from the center to the nearest edge
2343 is used for the radius of the output image, which will ensure the whole
2344 image is visible (though scaled smaller). However a special value of
2345 '<code>-1</code>' will use the distance from the center to the furthest
2346 corner, This may 'clip' the corners from the input rectangular image,
2347 but will generate the exact reverse of a '<kbd>DePolar</kbd>' with
2348 the same arguments. <br/>
2350 If the plus form of distort (<a href="#distort" >+distort</a>) is used
2351 output image center will default to <code>0,0</code> of the virtual
2352 canvas, and the image size adjusted to ensure the whole input image is
2353 made visible in the output image on the virtual canvas. </td>
2358 <td valign="top"><kbd>DePolar</kbd></td>
2360 Uses the same arguments and meanings as a '<kbd>Polar</kbd>' distortion
2361 but generates the reverse Polar to Cartesian distortion. <br/>
2363 The special <em>Rmax</em> setting of '<code>0</code>' may however clip
2364 the corners of the input image. However using the special
2365 <em>Rmax</em> setting of '<code>-1</code>' (maximum center to corner
2366 distance) will ensure the whole distorted image is preserved in the
2367 generated result, so that the same argument to '<kbd>Polar</kbd>' will
2368 reverse the distortion re-producing the original.
2370 Note that as this distortion requires the area resampling of a circular
2371 arc, which can not be handled by the builtin EWA resampling function.
2372 As such the normal EWA filters are turned off. It is recommended some
2373 form of 'super-sampling' image processing technique be used to produce
2374 a high quality result. </td>
2379 <td valign="top"><kbd>Barrel</kbd></td>
2381 Given the four coefficients (A,B,C,D) as defined by <a
2382 href="http://wiki.panotools.org/Lens_correction_model" >Helmut
2383 Dersch</a>, perform a barrel or pin-cushion distortion appropriate to
2384 correct radial lens distortions. That is in photographs, make straight
2385 lines straight again. <br/>
2387 Arguments: <em>A B C</em> [ <em>D</em> [
2388 <em>X</em> , <em>Y</em> ] ] <br/>
2389 or <em>A<sub>x</sub> B<sub>x</sub> C<sub>x</sub> D<sub>x</sub>
2390 A<sub>y</sub> B<sub>y</sub> C<sub>y</sub> D<sub>y</sub></em>
2391 [ <em>X</em> , <em>Y</em> ] <br/>
2392 So that it forms the function <br/>
2393 Rsrc = r * ( <em>A</em>*r<sup>3</sup> + <em>B</em>*r<sup>2</sup> +
2394 <em>C</em>*r + <em>D</em> )<br/>
2396 Where <em>X</em>,<em>Y</em> is the optional center of the distortion
2397 (defaulting to the center of the image). <br/>
2398 The second form is typically used to distort images, rather than
2399 correct lens distortions. <br/>
2405 <td valign="top"><kbd>BarrelInverse</kbd></td>
2407 This is very similar to '<kbd>Barrel</kbd>' with the same set of
2408 arguments, and argument handling. However it uses the inverse
2409 of the radial polynomial,
2410 so that it forms the function <br/>
2411 Rsrc = r / ( <em>A</em>*r<sup>3</sup> + <em>B</em>*r<sup>2</sup> +
2412 <em>C</em>*r + <em>D</em> )<br/>
2413 Note that this is not the reverse of the '<kbd>Barrel</kbd>'
2414 distortion, just a different barrel-like radial distortion method.
2420 <td valign="top"><kbd>Shepards</kbd></td>
2422 Distort the given list control points (any number) using an Inverse
2423 Squared Distance Interpolation Method (<a
2424 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_method" >Shepards
2425 Method</a>). The control points in effect do 'localized' displacement
2426 of the image around the given control point (preserving the look and
2427 the rotation of the area near the control points. For best results
2428 extra control points should be added to 'lock' the positions of the
2429 corners, edges and other unchanging parts of the image, to prevent
2430 their movement. <br/>
2432 The distortion has been likened to 'taffy pulling' using nails, or
2433 pins' stuck in a block of 'jelly' which is then moved to the new
2434 position, distorting the surface of the jelly. <br/>
2436 Internally it is equivalent to generating a displacement map (see <a
2437 href="#displace" >-displace</a>) for source image color look-up using
2438 the <a href="#sparse-color" >-sparse-color</a> method of the same name.
2445 <p>To print a complete list of distortion methods, use <a href="#list">-list
2448 <p>Many of the above distortion methods such as '<kbd>Affine</kbd>',
2449 '<kbd>Perspective</kbd>', and '<kbd>Shepards</kbd>' use a list control points
2450 defining how these points in the given image should be distorted in the
2451 destination image. Each set of four floating point values represent a source
2452 image coordinate, followed immediately by the destination image coordinate.
2453 This produces a list of values such as...</p>
2454 <div style="text-align: center"><em>
2455 U<sub>1</sub>,V<sub>1</sub> X<sub>1</sub>,Y<sub>1</sub>
2456 U<sub>2</sub>,V<sub>2</sub> X<sub>2</sub>,Y<sub>2</sub>
2457 U<sub>3</sub>,V<sub>3</sub> X<sub>3</sub>,Y<sub>3</sub>
2459 U<sub>n</sub>,V<sub>n</sub> X<sub>n</sub>,Y<sub>n</sub>
2461 <p>where <em>U,V</em> on the source image is mapped to <em>X,Y</em> on the
2462 destination image. </p>
2464 <p>For example, to warp an image using '<kbd>perspective</kbd>' distortion,
2465 needs a list of at least 4 sets of coordinates, or 16 numbers. Here is the
2466 perspective distortion of the built-in "rose:" image. Note how spaces were
2467 used to group the 4 sets of coordinate pairs, to make it easier to read and
2470 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>
2471 convert rose: -virtual-pixel black \<br/>
2472 -distort Perspective '0,0,0,0 0,45,0,45 69,0,60,10 69,45,60,35' \<br/>
2473 rose_3d_rotated.gif</span></p>
2474 <p>If more that the required number of coordinate pairs are given for
2475 a distortion, the distortion method is 'least squares' fitted to produce the
2476 best result for all the coordinate pairs given. If less than the ideal number
2477 of points are given, the distort will generally fall back to a simpler form of
2478 distortion that can handles the smaller number of coordinates (usually a linear
2479 '<kbd>Affine</kbd>' distortion). </p>
2481 <p>By using more coordinates you can make use of image registration tool to
2482 find matching coordinate pairs in overlapping images, so as to improve the
2483 'fit' of the distortion. Of course a bad coordinate pair can also make the
2484 'fit' worse. Caution is always advised. </p>
2486 <p>Colors are acquired from the source image according to the <a
2487 href="#interpolate" >-interpolate</a> color lookup setting, when the image is
2488 magnified. However if the viewed image is minified (image becomes smaller),
2489 a special area resampling function (added ImageMagick v6.3.5-9), is used to
2490 produce a higher quality image. For example you can use
2491 a '<kbd>perspective</kbd>' distortion to view a infinitely tiled 'plane' all
2492 the way to the horizon. </p>
2494 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>
2495 convert -size 90x90 pattern:checkerboard -normalize -virtual-pixel tile \<br/>
2496 -distort perspective '0,0,5,45 89,0,45,46 0,89,0,89 89,89,89,89' \<br/>
2497 checks_tiled.jpg</span></p>
2498 <p>Note that a infinitely tiled perspective images involving the horizon can
2499 be very slow to generate due to the use of the high quality 'area resampling'
2500 function (added ImageMagick v6.3.5-9). You can turn off 'area resampling'
2501 using a <a href="#filter" >-filter</a> setting of '<kbd>point</kbd>'
2502 (recommended if you plan to use super-sampling instead). </p>
2504 <p>If an image generates <i>invalid pixels</i>, such as the 'sky' in the last
2505 '<kbd>perspective</kbd>' distortion example, <a href="#distort" >-distort</a>
2506 will use the current <a href="#mattecolor" >-mattecolor</a> setting for these
2507 pixels. If you do not what these pixels to be visible, set the color to match
2508 the rest of the ground. </p>
2510 <p>The output image size will by default be the same as the input image. This
2511 means that if the part of the distorted image falls outside the viewed area of
2512 the 'distorted space', those parts is clipped and lost. However if you use
2513 the plus form of the operator (<a href="#distort" >+distort</a>) the operator
2514 will attempt (if possible) to show the whole of the distorted image, while
2515 retaining a correct 'virtual canvas' offset, for image layering. This offset
2516 may need to be removed using <a href="#repage" >+repage</a>, to remove if it
2519 <p>You can alternatively specify a special "<kbd><a href="#set" >-set</a>
2520 option:distort:viewport {geometry_string}</kbd>" setting which will specify
2521 the size and the offset of the generated 'viewport' image of the distorted
2524 <p>Adding a "<kbd><a href="#set" >-set</a> option:distort:scale
2525 {scale_factor}</kbd>" will scale the output image (viewport or otherwise) by
2526 that factor without changing the viewed contents of the distorted image. This
2527 can be used either for 'super-sampling' the image for a higher quality result,
2528 or for panning and zooming around the image (with appropriate viewport
2529 changes, or post-distort cropping and resizing). </p>
2531 <p>Setting <a href="#verbose" >-verbose</a> setting, will cause <a
2532 href="#distort" >-distort</a> to attempt to output the internal coefficients,
2533 and the <a href="#fx" >-fx</a> equivalent to the distortion, for expert study,
2534 and debugging purposes. This many not be available for all distorts. </p>
2536 <p>Affine rotations and shears (such as '<kbd>SRT</kbd>' distortion), tend to
2537 produce a cleaner result that the equivalent <a href="#rotate" >-rotate</a>
2538 and/or <a href="#shear" >-shear</a> operation, with more control of due to the
2539 above settings. It is algorithmically slower however, though that may not be
2540 the case in ImageMagick's implementation. </p>
2543 <div style="margin: auto;">
2544 <h4><a id="dither"></a>-dither <em class="arg">method</em></h4>
2547 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply a Riemersma or Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion dither to images when general color reduction is applied via an option, or automagically when saving to specific formats. This enabled by default. </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2549 <p>Dithering places two or more colors in neighboring pixels so that to the eye a closer approximation of the images original color is reproduced. This reduces the number of colors needed to reproduce the image but at the cost of a lower level pattern of colors. Error diffusion dithers can use any set of colors (generated or user defined) to an image. </p>
2551 <p>Dithering is turned on by default, to turn it off use the plus form of the
2552 setting, <a href="#dither">+dither</a>. This will also also render PostScript
2553 without text or graphic aliasing. Disabling dithering often (but not always)
2554 leads to faster process, a smaller number of colors, but more cartoon like
2555 image coloring. Generally resulting in 'color banding' effects in areas with
2556 color gradients. </p>
2558 <p>The color reduction operators <a href="#colors">-colors</a>, <a
2559 href="#monochrome">-monochrome</a>, <a href="#remap ">-remap</a>, and <a href="#posterize">-posterize</a>, apply dithering to images using the reduced color set they created. These operators are also used as part of automatic color reduction when saving images to formats with limited color support, such as <kbd>GIF:</kbd>, <kbd>XBM:</kbd>, and others, so dithering may also be used in these cases. </p>
2561 <p>Alternatively you can use <a href="#random-threshold">-random-threshold</a> to generate purely random dither. Or use <a href="#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a> to apply threshold mapped dither patterns, using uniform color maps, rather than specific color maps. </p>
2564 <div style="margin: auto;">
2565 <h4><a id="draw"></a>-draw <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
2568 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Annotate an image with one or more graphic primitives.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2570 <p>Use this option to annotate or decorate an image with one or more graphic primitives. The primitives include shapes, text, transformations, and pixel operations.</p>
2572 <p>The shape primitives:</p>
2577 rectangle x0,y0 x1,y1
2578 roundRectangle x0,y0 x1,y1 wc,hc
2579 arc x0,y0 x1,y1 a0,a1
2580 ellipse x0,y0 rx,ry a0,a1
2582 polyline x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2583 polygon x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2584 bezier x0,y0 ... xn,yn
2585 path path specification
2586 image operator x0,y0 w,h filename
2589 <p>The text primitive:</p>
2594 <p>The text gravity primitive:</p>
2597 gravity NorthWest, North, NorthEast, West, Center,
2598 East, SouthWest, South, or SouthEast
2601 <p>The text gravity primitive only affects the placement of text and does not interact with the other primitives. It is equivalent to using the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> command-line option, except that it is limited in scope to the <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option in which it appears.</p>
2603 <p>The transformation primitives:</p>
2613 <p>The pixel operation primitives:</p>
2620 <p>The shape primitives are drawn in the color specified by the preceding <a href="#fill">-fill</a> setting. For unfilled shapes, use <a href="#fill">-fill none</a>. You can optionally control the stroke (the "outline" of a shape) with the <a href="#stroke">-stroke</a> and <a href="#strokewidth">-strokewidth</a> settings.</p>
2622 <p>A <kbd>point</kbd> primitive is specified by a single <em>point</em> in the pixel plane, that is, by an ordered pair of integer coordinates, <em>x</em>,<em>y</em>. (As it involves only a single pixel, a <kbd>point</kbd> primitive is not affected by <a href="#stroke">-stroke</a> or <a href="#strokewidth">-strokewidth</a>.)</p>
2624 <p>A <kbd>line</kbd> primitive requires a start point and end point.</p>
2626 <p>A <kbd>rectangle</kbd> primitive is specified by the pair of points at the upper left and lower right corners.</p>
2628 <p>A <kbd>roundRectangle</kbd> primitive takes the same corner points as a <kbd>rectangle</kbd> followed by the width and height of the rounded corners to be removed.</p>
2630 <p>The <kbd>circle</kbd> primitive makes a disk (filled) or circle (unfilled). Give the center and any point on the perimeter (boundary).</p>
2632 <p>The <kbd>arc</kbd> primitive is used to inscribe an elliptical segment in to a given rectangle. An <kbd>arc</kbd> requires the two corners used for <kbd>rectangle</kbd> (see above) followed by the start and end angles of the arc of the segment segment (e.g. 130,30 200,100 45,90). The start and end points produced are then joined with a line segment and the resulting segment of an ellipse is filled.</p>
2634 <p>Use <kbd>ellipse</kbd> to draw a partial (or whole) ellipse. Give the center point, the horizontal and vertical "radii" (the <em>semi-axes</em> of the ellipse) and start and end angles in degrees (e.g. 100,100 100,150 0,360).</p>
2636 <p>The <kbd>polyline</kbd> and <kbd>polygon</kbd> primitives require three or more points to define their perimeters. A <kbd>polyline</kbd> is simply a <kbd>polygon</kbd> in which the final point is not stroked to the start point. When unfilled, this is a <em>polygonal line</em>. If the <a href="#stroke">-stroke</a> setting is <kbd>none</kbd> (the default), then a <kbd>polyline</kbd> is identical to a <kbd>polygon</kbd>.
2639 <p>A <em>coordinate</em> is a pair of integers separated by a space or optional comma. </p>
2641 <p>As an example, to define a circle centered at 100,100 that extends to 150,150 use:</p>
2644 -draw 'circle 100,100 150,150'
2647 <p>The <kbd>Bezier</kbd> primitive creates a spline curve and requires three or points to define its shape. The first and last points are the <em>knots</em> and these points are attained by the curve, while any intermediate coordinates are <em>control points</em>. If two control points are specified, the line between each end knot and its sequentially respective control point determines the tangent direction of the curve at that end. If one control point is specified, the lines from the end knots to the one control point determines the tangent directions of the curve at each end. If more than two control points are specified, then the additional control points act in combination to determine the intermediate shape of the curve. In order to
2648 draw complex curves, it is highly recommended either to use the <kbd>path</kbd> primitive or to draw multiple four-point bezier segments with the start and end knots of each successive segment repeated. For example:</p>
2651 -draw 'bezier 20,50 45,100 45,0 70,50'
2654 -draw 'bezier 70,50 95,100 95,0 120,50'
2658 <p>A <kbd>path</kbd> represents an outline of an object, defined in terms of moveto (set a new current point), lineto (draw a straight line), curveto (draw a Bezier curve), arc (elliptical or circular arc) and closepath (close the current shape by drawing a line to the last moveto) elements. Compound paths (i.e., a path with subpaths, each consisting of a single moveto followed by one or more line or curve operations) are possible to allow effects such as <em>donut holes</em> in objects. (See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html">Paths</a>.)</p>
2660 <p>Use <kbd>image</kbd> to composite an image with another image. Follow the image keyword with the composite operator, image location, image size, and filename:</p>
2663 -draw 'image SrcOver 100,100 225,225 image.jpg'
2666 <p>You can use 0,0 for the image size, which means to use the actual
2667 dimensions found in the image header. Otherwise, it is scaled to the given
2668 dimensions. See <a href="../www/compose.html">Alpha Compositing</a> for
2669 a detailed discussion of alpha composition methods that are available.
2670 The "special augmented compose operators" such as "dissolve" that require
2671 arguments cannot be used at present with the <kbd>-draw image</kbd> option.
2673 <p>Use <kbd>text</kbd> to annotate an image with text. Follow the text coordinates with a string. If the string has embedded spaces, enclose it in single or double quotes.</p>
2675 <p>For example, the following annotates the image with <kbd>Works like magick!</kbd> for an image titled <kbd>bird.miff</kbd>. </p>
2678 -draw "text 100,100 'Works like magick!' "
2681 <p>See the <a href="#annotate">-annotate</a> option for another convenient way to annotate an image with text.</p>
2683 <p>The <kbd>rotate</kbd> primitive rotates subsequent shape primitives and text primitives about the origin of the main image. If the <a href="#region">-region</a> option precedes the <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option, the origin for transformations is the upper left corner of the region.</p>
2685 <p>The <kbd>translate</kbd> primitive translates subsequent shape and text primitives.</p>
2687 <p>The <kbd>scale</kbd> primitive scales them.</p>
2689 <p>The <kbd>skewX</kbd> and <kbd>skewY</kbd> primitives skew them with respect to the origin of the main image or the region.</p>
2691 <p>The transformations modify the current affine matrix, which is initialized from the initial affine matrix defined by the <a href="#affine">-affine</a> option. Transformations are cumulative within the <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option. The initial affine matrix is not affected; that matrix is only changed by the appearance of another <a href="#affine">-affine</a> option. If another <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option appears, the current affine matrix is reinitialized from the initial affine
2694 <p>Use the <kbd>color</kbd> primitive to change the color of a pixel to the fill color (see <a href="#fill">-fill</a>). Follow the pixel coordinate with a method:</p>
2704 <p>Consider the target pixel as that specified by your coordinate. The <kbd>point</kbd> method recolors the target pixel. The <kbd>replace</kbd> method recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel. <kbd>Floodfill</kbd> recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel and is a neighbor, whereas <kbd>filltoborder</kbd> recolors any neighbor pixel that is not the border color. Finally, <kbd>reset</kbd> recolors all pixels.</p>
2706 <p>Use <kbd>matte</kbd> to the change the pixel matte value to transparent. Follow the pixel coordinate with a method (see the <kbd>color</kbd> primitive for a description of methods). The <kbd>point</kbd> method changes the matte value of the target pixel. The <kbd>replace</kbd> method changes the matte value of any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel. <kbd>Floodfill</kbd> changes the matte value of any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel and is a neighbor, whereas <kbd>filltoborder</kbd> changes the matte value of any neighbor pixel that is not the border color (<a href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a>). Finally <kbd>reset</kbd> changes the matte value of all pixels.</p>
2708 <p>You can set the primitive color, font, and font bounding box color with <a href="#fill">-fill</a>, <a href="#font">-font</a>, and <a href="#box">-box</a> respectively. Options are processed in command line order so be sure to use these options <em>before</em> the <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option.</p>
2710 <p>Strings that begin with a number must be quoted (e.g. use '1.png' rather than 1.png).</p>
2712 <p>Drawing primitives conform to the <a href="../www/magick-vector-graphics.html">Magick Vector Graphics</a> format.</p>
2715 <div style="margin: auto;">
2716 <h4><a id="duplicate"></a>-duplicate <em class="arg">count,indexes</em></h4>
2719 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>duplicate an image one or more times.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2721 <p>Specify the count and the image to duplicate by its index in the sequence. The first image is index 0. Negative indexes are relative to the end of the sequence, for example, -1 represents the last image of the sequence. Specify a range of images with a dash (e.g. 0-4). Separate indexes with a comma (e.g. 0,2). Use <kbd>+duplicate</kbd> to duplicate the last image in the current image sequence.</p>
2723 <div style="margin: auto;">
2724 <h4><a id="edge"></a>-edge <em class="arg">radius</em></h4>
2727 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>detect edges within an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2729 <div style="margin: auto;">
2730 <h4><a id="emboss"></a>-emboss <em class="arg">radius</em></h4>
2733 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>emboss an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2735 <div style="margin: auto;">
2736 <h4><a id="encipher"></a>-encipher <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
2739 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Encipher pixels for later deciphering by <a href="#decipher">-decipher</a>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2741 <p>Get the passphrase from the file specified by <em class="arg">filename</em>.</p>
2743 <p>For more information, see the webpage, <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/cipher.html">ImageMagick: Encipher or Decipher an Image</a>.</p>
2747 <div style="margin: auto;">
2748 <h4><a id="encoding"></a>-encoding <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
2751 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>specify the text encoding.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2753 <p>Choose from <kbd>AdobeCustom</kbd>, <kbd>AdobeExpert</kbd>, <kbd>AdobeStandard</kbd>, <kbd>AppleRoman</kbd>, <kbd>BIG5</kbd>, <kbd>GB2312</kbd>, <kbd>Latin 2</kbd>, <kbd>None</kbd>, <kbd>SJIScode</kbd>, <kbd>Symbol</kbd>, <kbd>Unicode</kbd>, <kbd>Wansung</kbd>.</p>
2755 <div style="margin: auto;">
2756 <h4><a id="endian"></a>-endian <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
2759 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify endianness (<kbd>MSB</kbd> or <kbd>LSB</kbd>) of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2761 <p>To print a complete list of endian types, use the <a href="#list">-list endian</a> option.</p>
2763 <p>Use <a href="#endian">+endian</a> to revert to unspecified endianness.</p>
2766 <div style="margin: auto;">
2767 <h4><a id="enhance"></a>-enhance</h4>
2770 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2773 <div style="margin: auto;">
2774 <h4><a id="equalize"></a>-equalize</h4>
2777 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>perform histogram equalization on the image channel-by-channel.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2779 <p>To perform histogram equalization on all channels in concert, transform the image into some other color space, such as HSL, OHTA, YIQ or YUV, then equalize the appropriate intensity-like channel, then convert back to RGB.</p>
2781 <p>For example using HSL, we have: ... <kbd>-colorspace HSL -channel lightness -equalize -colorspace RGB</kbd> ...</p>
2783 <p>For YIQ, YUV and OHTA use the red channel. For example, OHTA is a principal components transformation that puts most of the information in the first channel. Here we have ... <kbd>-colorspace OHTA -channel red -equalize -colorspace RGB</kbd> ...</p>
2785 <div style="margin: auto;">
2786 <h4><a id="evaluate"></a>-evaluate <em class="arg">operator value</em></h4>
2789 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Alter channel pixels by evaluating an arithmetic, relational, or logical expression.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2791 <p>(See the <a href="#function" >-function</a> operator for some multi-parameter functions. See the <a href="#fx" >-fx</a> operator if more elaborate calculations are needed.)</p>
2793 <p>The behaviors of each <em class="arg">operator</em> are summarized in the following list. For brevity, the numerical value of a "pixel" referred to below is the value of the corresponding channel of that pixel, while a "normalized pixel" is that number divided by the maximum (installation-dependent) value <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>. (If normalized pixels are used, they are restored, following the other calculations, to the full range by multiplying by <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>.)</p>
2800 <th><em class="arg">operator</em></th>
2801 <th>Summary (see further below for details)</th>
2806 <tr><td>Abs </td> <td>Add <em class="arg">value</em> to pixels and return absolute value. </td></tr>
2807 <tr><td>Add </td> <td>Add <em class="arg">value</em> to pixels. </td></tr>
2808 <tr><td>AddModulus </td> <td>Add <em class="arg">value</em> to pixels modulo <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>.</td></tr>
2809 <tr><td>And </td> <td>Binary AND of pixels with <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2810 <tr><td>Cos, Cosine </td> <td>Apply cosine to pixels with frequency <em class="arg">value</em> with 50% bias added.</td></tr>
2811 <tr><td>Divide </td> <td>Divide pixels by <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2812 <tr><td>Exp </td> <td>base-e exponential function</td></tr>
2813 <tr><td>Exponential </td> <td>base-e exponential function</td></tr>
2814 <tr><td>LeftShift </td> <td>Shift the pixel values left by <em class="arg">value</em> bits (i.e., multiply pixels by 2<sup><em class="arg">value</em></sup>).</td></tr>
2815 <tr><td>Log </td> <td>Apply scaled logarithm to normalized pixels.</td></tr>
2816 <tr><td>Max </td> <td>Clip pixels at lower bound <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2817 <tr><td>Mean </td> <td>Add the <em class="arg">value</em> and divide by 2.</td></tr>
2818 <tr><td>Median </td> <td>Choose the median value from an image sequence.</td></tr>
2819 <tr><td>Min </td> <td>Clip pixels at upper bound <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2820 <tr><td>Multiply </td> <td>Multiply pixels by <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2821 <tr><td>Or </td> <td>Binary OR of pixels with <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2822 <tr><td>Pow </td> <td>Raise normalized pixels to the power <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2823 <tr><td>RightShift </td> <td>Shift the pixel values right by <em class="arg">value</em> bits (i.e., divide pixels by 2<sup><em class="arg">value</em></sup>).</td></tr>
2824 <tr><td>Set </td> <td>Set pixel equal to <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2825 <tr><td>Sin, Sine </td> <td>Apply sine to pixels with frequency <em class="arg">value</em> with 50% bias added.</td></tr>
2826 <tr><td>Subtract </td> <td>Subtract <em class="arg">value</em> from pixels.</td></tr>
2827 <tr><td>Xor </td> <td>Binary XOR of pixels with <em class="arg">value.</em></td></tr>
2829 <tr><td> </td></tr>
2831 <tr><td>Gaussian-noise</td></tr>
2832 <tr><td>Impulse-noise</td></tr>
2833 <tr><td>Laplacian-noise</td></tr>
2834 <tr><td>Multiplicative-noise</td> <td>(These are equivalent to the corresponding <a href="#noise" >-noise</a> operators.)</td></tr>
2835 <tr><td>PoissonNoise</td></tr>
2836 <tr><td>Uniform-noise</td></tr>
2838 <tr><td> </td></tr>
2840 <tr><td>Threshold </td> <td>Threshold pixels larger than <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2841 <tr><td>ThresholdBlack </td> <td>Threshold pixels to zero values equal to or below <em class="arg">value</em>.</td></tr>
2842 <tr><td>ThresholdWhite </td> <td>Threshold pixels to maximum values above <em class="arg">value</em>. </td></tr>
2846 <p>The specified functions are applied only to each previously set <a
2847 href="#channel" >-channel</a> in the image. If necessary, the results of the
2848 calculations are truncated (clipped) to fit in the interval [0, <em
2849 class="QR">QuantumRange</em>]. The transparency channel of the image is
2850 represented as a 'alpha' values (0 = fully transparent), so, for example, a
2851 <kbd>Divide</kbd> by 2 of the alpha channel will make the image
2852 semi-transparent. Append the percent symbol '<kbd>%</kbd>' to specify a value
2853 as a percentage of the <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>.</p>
2855 <p>To print a complete list of <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operators, use
2856 <a href="#list">-list evaluate</a>.</p>
2858 <p>The results of the <kbd>Add</kbd>, <kbd>Subtract</kbd> and
2859 <kbd>Multiply</kbd> methods can also be achieved using either the <a
2860 href="#level" >-level</a> or the <a href="#level" >+level</a> operator, with
2861 appropriate argument, to linearly modify the overall range of color values.
2862 Please note, however, that <a href="#level" >-level</a> treats transparency as
2863 'matte' values (0 = opaque), while <a href="#level" >-evaluate</a> works with
2866 <p><kbd>AddModulus</kbd> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.8-4 and provides addition modulo the <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>. It is therefore equivalent to <kbd>Add</kbd> unless the resulting pixel value is outside the interval [0, <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>]. </p>
2868 <p><kbd>Exp or Exponential</kbd> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.6.5-1 and works on normalized pixel values. The <em class="arg">value</em> used with <kbd>Exp</kbd> should be negative so as to produce a decaying exponential function. Non-negative values will always produce results larger unity and thus outside the interval [0, <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>]. The formula is expressed below. </p>
2870 <div style="text-align:center;">
2871 exp(<em class="arg">value</em> × <b><em>u</em></b>)
2874 <p> If the input image is squared, for example, using <a
2875 href="#-function" >-function polynomial "2 0 0"</a>, then a decaying Gaussian function will be the result.</p>
2877 <p><kbd>Log</kbd> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.2-1 and works on normalized pixel values. This a <em>scaled</em> log function. The <em class="arg">value</em> used with <kbd>Log</kbd> provides a <em>scaling factor</em> that adjusts the curvature in the graph of the log function. The formula applied to a normalized value <b><em>u</em></b> is below. </p>
2879 <div style="text-align:center;">
2880 log(<em class="arg">value</em> × <b><em>u</em></b> + 1) / log(<em class="arg">value</em> + 1)
2883 <p><kbd>Pow</kbd> has been added as of ImageMagick 6.4.1-9, and works on
2884 normalized pixel values. Note that <kbd>Pow</kbd> is related to the <a
2885 href="#gamma" >-gamma</a> operator. For example, <b>-gamma 2</b> is equivalent
2886 to <b>-evaluate pow 0.5</b>, i.e., a 'square root' function. The value used
2887 with <a href="#gamma" >-gamma</a> is simply the reciprocal of the value used
2888 with <kbd>Pow</kbd>.</p>
2890 <p><kbd>Cosine</kbd> and <kbd>Sine</kbd> was added as of IM v6.4.8-8 and
2891 converts the image values into a value according to a (co)sine wave function.
2892 The synonyms <kbd>Cos</kbd> and <kbd>Sin</kbd> may also be used. The output
2893 is biased 50% and normalized by 50% so as to fit in the respective color value
2894 range. The <em class="arg">value</em> scaling of the <em>period</em> of the
2895 function (its frequency), and thus determines the number of 'waves' that will
2896 be generated over the input color range. For example, if the <em
2897 class="arg">value</em> is 1, the effective period is simply the <em
2898 class="QR">QuantumRange</em>; but if the <em class="arg">value</em> is 2,
2899 then the effective period is the <em>half</em> the <em
2900 class="QR">QuantumRange</em>.</p>
2902 <div style="text-align:center;">
2903 0.5 + 0.5 × cos(2 π <b><em>u</em></b> × <em class="arg">value</em>).
2906 <p>See also the <a href="#function" >-function</a> operator, which is a
2907 multi-value version of evaluate. </p>
2909 <div style="margin: auto;">
2910 <h4><a id="evaluate-sequence"></a>-evaluate-sequence <em class="arg">operator</em></h4>
2913 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Alter channel pixels by evaluating an arithmetic, relational, or logical expression over a sequence of images.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2915 <div style="margin: auto;">
2916 <h4><a id="extent"></a>-extent <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
2919 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the image size and offset.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2921 <p>If the image is enlarged, unfilled areas are set to the background color. To position the image, use offsets in the <em class="arg">geometry</em> specification or precede with a <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting. To specify how to compose the image with the background, use <a href="#compose" >-compose</a>.</p>
2922 <p>This command reduces or expands a JPEG image to fit on an 800x600
2923 display. If the aspect ratio of the input image isn't exactly 4:3, then the
2924 image is centered on an 800x600 black canvas: </p>
2926 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert input.jpg -resize 800x600 -background black -compose Copy \ <br /> -gravity center -extent 800x600 -quality 92 output.jpg</span></p>
2929 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
2931 <div style="margin: auto;">
2932 <h4><a id="extract"></a>-extract <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
2935 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Extract the specified area from image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2937 <p>This option is most useful for extracting a subregion of a very large raw image. Note that these two commands are equivalent:</p>
2939 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -extract 640x480+1280+960 \ <br/> image.rgb image.png</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 'image.rgb[640x480+1280+960]' \ <br/> image.rgb image.png</span></p><p>If you omit the offsets, as in</p>
2941 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -extract 640x480 \ <br/> image.rgb image.png</span></p>
2942 <p>the image is <em>resized</em> to the specified dimensions instead,
2945 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -size 16000x16000 -depth 8 -resize 640x480 image.rgb image.png</span></p>
2946 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
2948 <div style="margin: auto;">
2949 <h4><a id="family"></a>-family <em class="arg">fontFamily</em></h4>
2952 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set a font family for text.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2954 <p>This setting suggests a font family that ImageMagick should try to use for rendering text. If the family can be found it is used; if not, a default font (e.g., "Arial") or a family known to be similar is substituted (e.g., "Courier" might be used if "System" is requested but not found).
2957 <p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="#font">-font</a>, <a href="#stretch">-stretch</a>, <a href="#style">-style</a>, and <a href="#weight">-weight</a>.
2960 <div style="margin: auto;">
2961 <h4><a id="features"></a>-features <em class="arg">distance</em></h4>
2964 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>display features for each channel in the image in each of four directions (horizontal, vertical, left and right diagonals) for the specified distance.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2966 <div style="margin: auto;">
2967 <h4><a id="fft"></a>-fft</h4>
2970 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>implements the forward discrete Fourier transform (DFT).</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
2972 <p>This option is new as of ImageMagick 6.5.4-3 (and now working for Windows users in ImageMagick 6.6.0-9). It transforms an image from the normal (spatial) domain to the frequency domain. In the frequency domain, an image is represented as a superposition of complex sinusoidal waves of varying amplitudes. The image x and y coordinates are the possible frequencies along the x and y directions, respectively, and the pixel intensity values are complex numbers that correspond to the sinusoidal wave amplitudes. See for example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform">Fourier Transform</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT">Discrete Fourier Transform</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFT">Fast Fourier Transform</a>.</p>
2974 <p>A single image name is provided as output for this option. However, the output result will have two components. It is either a two-frame image or two separate images, depending upon whether the image format specified supports multi-frame images. The reason that we get a dual output result is because the frequency domain represents an image using complex numbers, which cannot be visualized directly. Therefore, the complex values are automagically separated into a two-component image representation. The first component is the magnitude of the complex number and the second is the phase of the complex number. See for example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_numbers">Complex Numbers</a>.</p>
2976 <p>The magnitude and phase component images must be specified using image formats that do not limit the color or compress the image. Thus, MIFF, TIF, PFM, EXR and PNG are the recommended image formats to use. All of these formats, except PNG support multi-frame images. So for example,</p>
2978 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -fft fft_image.miff</span></p>
2979 <p>generates a magnitude image as <kbd>fft_image.miff[0]</kbd> and a phase image as <kbd>fft_image.miff[1]</kbd>. Similarly,</p>
2981 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -fft fft_image.png</span></p>
2982 <p>generates a magnitude image as <kbd>fft_image-0.png</kbd> and a phase image as <kbd>fft_image-1.png</kbd>. If you prefer this representation, then you can force any of the other formats to produce two output images by including <a href="#adjoin">+adjoin</a> following -fft in the command line.</p>
2984 <p>The input image can be any size, but if not square and even-dimensioned, it is padded automagically to the larger of the width or height of the input image and to an even number of pixels. The padding will occur at the bottom and/or right sides of the input image. The resulting output magnitude and phase images is square at this size. The kind of padding relies on the <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting.</p>
2986 <p>Both output components will have dynamic ranges that fit within [0, <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>], so that HDRI need not be enabled. Phase values nominally range from 0 to 2*π, but is scaled to span the full dynamic range.
2987 (The first few releases had non-HDRI scaled but HDRI not scaled). The magnitude image is not scaled and thus generally will contain very small values. As such, the image normally will appear totally black. In order to view any detail, the magnitude image typically is enhanced with a log function into what is usually called the spectrum. A log function is used to enhance the darker values more in comparison to the lighter values. This can be done, for example, as follows:</p>
2989 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert fft_image.miff[0] -contrast-stretch 0 \ <br />
2990 -evaluate log 1000 fft_image_spectrum.png</span></p>
2991 <p>where either <a href="#contrast-stretch">-contrast-stretch</a> 0 or <a href="#auto-level">-auto-level</a> is used to scale the image to full dynamic range, first. The argument to the <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> log typically is specified between 100 and 10,000, depending upon the amount of detail that one wants to bring out in the spectrum. Larger values produce more visible detail. Too much detail, however, may hide the important features.</p>
2993 <p>The <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</a> delegate library is required to use <a href="#fft">-fft</a>.</p>
2995 <p>Use <a href="#fft">+fft</a> to produce two output images that are the real and imaginary components of the complex valued Fourier transform.</p>
2997 <p>However, as the real and imaginary components can contain negative values, this requires that IM be configured with HDRI enabled. In this case, you must use either MIFF, TIF, PFM or MPC formats for the real and imaginary component results, since they are formats that preserve both negative and fractional values without clipping them or truncating the fractional part. With either
2998 MIFF or TIF, one should add -define quantum:format=32, to allow those image
2999 types to work properly in HDRI mode without clipping.</p>
3001 <p>The real and imaginary component images resulting from <a href="#fft">+fft</a> are also square, even dimensioned images due to the same padding that was discussed above for the magnitude and phase component images.</p>
3003 <p>See the discussion on HDRI implementations of ImageMagick on the page
3004 <a href="../www/high-dynamic-range.html">High Dynamic-Range Images</a>. For more about HDRI go the ImageMagick <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#hdri">Usage</a> pages, <a href="http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/fourier_transforms/fourier.html">Fred's Fourier Processing With ImageMagick page</a> or this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging">Wikipedia</a> entry.
3008 <div style="margin: auto;">
3009 <h4><a id="fill"></a>-fill <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
3012 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>color to use when filling a graphic primitive.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3014 <p>This option accepts a color name, a hex color, or a numerical RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA, CMYK, or CMYKA specification. See <a href="../www/color.html">Color Names</a> for a description of how to properly specify the color argument.</p>
3016 <p>Enclose the color specification in quotation marks to prevent the "#" or the parentheses from being interpreted by your shell.</p>
3027 -fill "rgb(255,255,255)"
3030 <p>See <a href="#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
3032 <p>To print a complete list of color names, use the <a href="#list">-list color</a> option.</p>
3034 <div style="margin: auto;">
3035 <h4><a id="filter"></a>-filter <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3038 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Use this <em class="arg">type</em> of filter when resizing or
3039 distorting an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3041 <p>Use this option to affect the resizing operation of an image during
3042 operations such as <a href="#resize">-resize</a> and <a href="#distort"
3043 >-distort</a>. For example you can use a simple resize filter such as:</p>
3048 Triangle Quadratic Mitchell
3051 <p>The <kbd>Bessel</kbd> and <kbd>Sinc</kbd> filter is also provided (as well
3052 as a faster <kbd>SincFast</kbd> equivalent form). However these filters are
3053 generally useless on their own as they are infinite filters that are being
3054 clipped to the filters support size. Their direct use is not recommended
3055 except via expert settings (see below). </p>
3057 <p>Instead these special filter functions are typically windowed by a windowing
3058 function that the <a href="#filter" >-filter</a> setting defines. That is
3059 using these functions will define a 'Windowed' filter, appropriate to the
3060 operator involved. Windowed filters include: </p>
3063 Lanczos Hamming Parzen
3064 Blackman Kaiser Welsh
3065 Hanning Bartlett Bohman
3068 <p>Also one special self-windowing filter is also provided
3069 <kbd>Lagrange</kbd>, which will automagically re-adjust its function depending
3070 on the current 'support' or 'lobes' expert settings (see below).</p>
3072 <p>If you do not select a filter with this option, the filter defaults to
3073 <kbd>Mitchell</kbd> for a colormapped image, a image with a matte channel, or
3074 if the image is enlarged. Otherwise the filter default to
3075 <kbd>Lanczos</kbd>.</p>
3077 <p>To print a complete list of resize filters, use the <a href="#list">-list
3078 filter</a> option.</p>
3080 <p>You can modify how the filter behaves as it scales your image through the
3081 use of these expert settings (see also <a href="#define" >-define</a> and <a
3082 href="#set" >-set</a>):-</p>
3085 <dt>-define filter:blur=<em>factor</em></dt>
3086 <dd>Scale the X axis of the filter (and its window). Use > 1.0 for
3087 blurry or < 1.0 for sharp. This should only be used with Gaussian and
3088 Gaussian-like filters simple filters, or you may not get the expected
3091 <dt>-define filter:support=<em>radius</em></dt>
3092 <dd>Set the filter support radius. Defines how large the filter should be and
3093 thus directly defines how slow the filtered resampling process is. All
3094 filters have a default 'prefered' support size. Some filters like
3095 <kbd>Lagrange</kbd> and windowed filters adjust themselves depending on
3096 this value. With simple filters this value either does nothing (but slow
3097 the resampling), or will clip the filter function in a detrimental way.
3100 <dt>-define filter:lobes=<em>count</em></dt>
3101 <dd>Set the number of lobes to use for the Sinc/Bessel filter. This an
3102 alternative way of specifying the 'support' range of the filter, that is
3103 designed to be more suited to windowed filters, especially when used for
3104 image distorts.</dd>
3106 <dt>-define filter:b=<em>b-spline_factor</em></dt>
3107 <dt>-define filter:c=<em>keys_alpha_factor</em></dt>
3108 <dd>Redefine the values used for cubic filters such as <kbd>Cubic</kbd>,
3109 <kbd>Catrom</kbd>, <kbd>Mitchel</kbd>, and <kbd>Hermite</kbd>, as well as
3110 the <kbd>Parzen</kbd> Sinc windowing function. If only one of the values
3111 are defined, the other is set so as to generate a 'Keys' type cubic
3112 filter. Values meaning was defined by a research paper by
3113 Mitchell-Netravali.</dd>
3115 <dt>-define filter:filter=<em>filter_function</em></dt>
3116 <dd>Use this function directly as the scaling filter. This will allow
3117 you to directly use a windowing filter such as <kbd>Blackman</kbd>,
3118 rather than as its normal usage as a windowing function for 'Sinc' or
3119 'Bessel' functions. If defined, no windowing function is used, unless the
3120 following expert setting is also defined.</dd>
3122 <dt>-define filter:window=<em>filter_function</em></dt>
3123 <dd>The IIR (infinite impulse response) filters <kbd>Bessel</kbd> and
3124 <kbd>Sinc</kbd> are windowed (brought down to zero over the defined
3125 support range) with the given filter. This allows you to specify a filter
3126 function that is not normally used as a windowing function, such as
3127 <kbd>Box</kbd>, (which effectively turns off the windowing function),
3128 to window a <kbd>Sinc</kbd>, or the function the previous setting defined.
3131 <dt>-define filter:verbose=<em>1</em></dt>
3132 <dd>This causes IM to print information on the final internal filter
3133 selection to standard output. This includes a commented header on the
3134 filter settings being used, and data allowing the filter weights to be
3135 easily graphed. </dd>
3137 <dd>Note however that some filters are internally defined in terms of other
3138 filters. The <kbd>Lanczos</kbd> filter for example is defined in terms of
3139 a <kbd>SincFast</kbd> windowed <kbd>SincFast</kbd> filter, while
3140 <kbd>Mitchell</kbd> is defined as a <kbd>Cubic</kbd> filter with specific
3141 'B' and 'C' settings. </dd>
3145 <p>For example, to get a 8 lobe Bessel windowed Bessel filter:</p>
3147 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -filter bessel \ <br/>
3148 -set filter:window=bessel -set filter:lobes=8 \ <br/>
3149 -resize 150% image.jpg</span></p>
3150 <p>Or a raw un-windowed Sinc filter with 4 lobes:</p>
3152 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -set filter:filter=sinc -set filter:lobes=4 \ <br/>
3153 -resize 150% image.jpg</span></p>
3154 <p>Note that the use of expert options (except for 'blur' with simple resize
3155 filters, and 'verbose' for viewing the internal filter selection), are
3156 provided for image processing experts who have studied and understood how
3157 resize filters work. Without this knowledge, and an understanding of the
3158 definition of the actual filters involved, using expert settings are more
3159 likely to be detrimental to your image resizing.</p>
3162 <div style="margin: auto;">
3163 <h4><a id="flatten"></a>-flatten</h4>
3166 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>This is a simple alias for the <a href="#layers" >-layers</a> method "flatten".</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3169 <div style="margin: auto;">
3170 <h4><a id="flip"></a>-flip</h4>
3173 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>create a <em>mirror image</em>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3175 <p>reflect the scanlines in the vertical direction. The image will be mirrored
3179 <div style="margin: auto;">
3180 <h4><a id="floodfill"></a>-floodfill {<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em> <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
3183 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>floodfill the image with color at the specified offset.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3185 <p>Flood fill starts from the given 'seed point' which is not gravity effected.
3186 Any color that matches within <a href="#fuzz" >-fuzz</a> color distance of the
3187 given <em class="arg">color</em> argument, connected to that 'seed point'
3188 will be replaced with the current <a href="#fill" >-fill</a> color. </p>
3190 <p>Note that if the pixel at the 'seed point' does not itself match the given
3191 <em class="arg">color</em> (according to <a href="#fuzz" >-fuzz</a>), then no
3192 action will be taken. </p>
3194 <p>This operator works more like the <a href="#opaque" >-opaque</A> option, than
3195 a more general flood fill that reads the matching color directly at the 'seed point'. For this form of flood fill, look at <a href="#draw" >-draw</a> and its 'color floodfill' drawing method. </p>
3198 <div style="margin: auto;">
3199 <h4><a id="flop"></a>-flop</h4>
3202 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>create a <em>mirror image</em>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3204 <p>Reflect the scanlines in the horizontal direction, just like the image in
3205 a vertical mirror. </p>
3208 <div style="margin: auto;">
3209 <h4><a id="font"></a>-font <em class="arg">name</em></h4>
3212 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set the font to use when annotating images with text, or creating labels.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3214 <p>To print a complete list of fonts, use the <a href="#list">-list font</a> option (for versions prior to 6.3.6, use 'type' instead of 'font').</p>
3216 <p>In addition to the fonts specified by the above pre-defined list, you can
3217 also specify a font from a specific source. For example <kbd>Arial.ttf</kbd>
3218 is a TrueType font file, <kbd>ps:helvetica</kbd> is PostScript font, and
3219 <kbd>x:fixed</kbd> is X11 font.</p>
3221 <p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="#family">-family</a>, <a href="#stretch">-stretch</a>, <a href="#style">-style</a>, and <a href="#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
3224 <div style="margin: auto;">
3225 <h4><a id="foreground"></a>-foreground <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
3228 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Define the foreground color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3230 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
3232 <p>The default foreground color is black.</p>
3234 <div style="margin: auto;">
3235 <h4><a id="format"></a>-format <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3238 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the image format type.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3240 <p>When used with the <kbd>mogrify</kbd> utility, this option converts any image to the image <a href="../www/formats.html">format</a> you specify. For a list of image format types supported by ImageMagick, use <a href="#list">-list format</a>.</p>
3242 <p>By default the file is written to its original name. However, if the filename extension matches a supported format, the extension is replaced with the image format type specified with <a href="#format">-format</a>. For example, if you specify <em class="arg">tiff</em> as the format type and the input image filename is <em class="arg">image.gif</em>, the output image filename becomes <em class="arg">image.tiff</em>.</p>
3244 <div style="margin: auto;">
3245 <h4><a id="format_identify_"></a>-format <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
3248 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>output formatted image characteristics.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/identify.html">identify</a>]</td></tr></table>
3250 <p>See <a href="../www/escape.html">Format and Print Image Properties</a> for an explanation on how to specify the argument to this option.</p>
3252 <div style="margin: auto;">
3253 <h4><a id="frame"></a>-frame <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
3256 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Surround the image with a border or beveled frame.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3258 <p>The color of the border is specified with the <a href="#mattecolor"
3259 >-mattecolor</a> command line option. </p>
3261 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. The <em class="arg">size</em> portion of the <em
3262 class="arg">geometry</em> argument indicates the amount of extra width and
3263 height that is added to the dimensions of the image. If no offsets are given
3264 in the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument, then the border added is
3265 a solid color. Offsets <em>x</em> and <em>y</em>, if present, specify that
3266 the width and height of the border is partitioned to form an outer bevel of
3267 thickness <em>x</em> pixels and an inner bevel of thickness
3268 <em>y</em> pixels. Negative offsets make no sense as frame arguments.
3271 <p>The <a href="#frame">-frame</a> option is affected by the current <a
3272 href="#compose">-compose</a> setting and assumes that this is using the default
3273 '<kbd>Over</kbd>' composition method. It generates a image of the appropriate
3274 size with the current <a href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting, and then
3275 draws the frame of four distinct colors close to the current <a
3276 href="#mattecolor">-mattecolor</a>. The original image is then overlaid onto
3277 center of this image. This means that with the default compose method of
3278 '<kbd>Over</kbd>' any transparent parts may be replaced by the current <a
3279 href="#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> setting.</p>
3281 <p>The image composition is not
3282 affected by the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option.</p>
3285 <div style="margin: auto;">
3286 <h4><a id="frame_import_"></a>-frame</h4>
3289 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>include the X window frame in the imported image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/import.html">import</a>]</td></tr></table>
3291 <div style="margin: auto;">
3292 <h4><a id="function"></a>-function <em class="arg">function</em> <em class="arg">parameters</em></h4>
3295 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply a function to channel values.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3297 <p>This operator performs calculations based on the given arguments to modify each of the color values for each previously set <a href="#channel">-channel</a> in the image. See <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> for details concerning how the results of the calculations are handled.</p>
3299 <p>This is can be considered a multi-argument version of the <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator. (Added in ImageMagick 6.4.8−8.)</p>
3301 <p>Here, <em class="arg">parameters</em> is a comma-separated list of numerical values. The number of values varies depending on which <em class="arg">function</em> is selected. Choose the <em class="arg">function</em> from:</p>
3310 <p>To print a complete list of <a href="#function">-function</a> operators, use <a href="#list">-list function</a>. Descriptions follow.</p>
3313 <dt><kbd>Polynomial</kbd></dt>
3315 <p>The <kbd>Polynomial</kbd> function takes an arbitrary number of parameters, these being the coefficients of a polynomial, in decreasing order of degree. That is, entering</p>
3317 <div style="text-align: center">
3318 -function Polynomial <em>a</em><sub><em>n</em></sub>,<em>a</em><sub><em>n</em>-1</sub>,...<em>a</em><sub>1</sub>,<em>a</em><sub>0</sub>
3321 <p>will invoke a polynomial function given by</p>
3323 <div style="text-align: center">
3324 <em>a</em><sub><em>n</em></sub> <b><em>u</em></b><sup><em>n</em></sup> +
3325 <em>a</em><sub><em>n</em>-1</sub> <b><em>u</em></b><sup><em>n</em>-1</sup> +
3326 ··· <em>a</em><sub>1</sub> <b><em>u</em></b> + <em>a</em><sub>0</sub>,
3329 <p>where <b><em>u</em></b> is pixel's original normalized channel value.</p>
3331 <p>The <kbd>Polynomial</kbd> function can be used in place of <kbd>Set</kbd> (the <em>constant</em> polynomial) and <kbd>Add</kbd>, <kbd>Divide</kbd>, <kbd>Multiply</kbd>, and <kbd>Subtract</kbd> (some <em>linear</em> polynomials) of the <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator. The <a href="#level">-level</a> operator also affects channels linearly. Some correspondences follow.</p>
3338 <td>-evaluate Set <em class="arg">value</em> </td>
3339 <td>-function Polynomial <em class="arg">value</em></td>
3340 <td>(Constant functions; set <em class="arg">value</em>×100% gray when channels are RGB.)</td>
3343 <td>-evaluate Add <em class="arg">value</em> </td>
3344 <td>-function Polynomial 1,<em class="arg">value</em></td>
3347 <td>-evaluate Subtract <em class="arg">value</em> </td>
3348 <td>-function Polynomial 1,−<em class="arg">value</em></td>
3351 <td>-evaluate Multiply <em class="arg">value</em> </td>
3352 <td>-function Polynomial <em class="arg">value</em>,0</td>
3355 <td>+level black% x white%</td>
3356 <td>-function Polynomial A,B</td>
3357 <td>(Reduce contrast. Here, A=(white-black)/100 and B=black/100.)</td>
3361 <p>The <kbd>Polynomial</kbd> function gives great versatility, since polynomials can be used to fit any continuous curve to any degree of accuracy desired.</p>
3364 <dt><kbd>Sinusoid</kbd></dt>
3366 <p>The <kbd>Sinusoid</kbd> function can be used to vary the channel values sinusoidally by setting frequency, phase shift, amplitude, and a bias. These values are given as one to four parameters, as follows,</p>
3368 <div style="text-align: center">
3369 -function <kbd>Sinusoid</kbd> <em class="arg">freq</em>,[<em class="arg">phase</em>,[<em class="arg">amp</em>,[<em class="arg">bias</em>]]]
3372 <p>where <em>phase</em> is in degrees. (The domain [0,1] of the function corresponds to 0 through <em class="arg">freq</em>×360 degrees.) The result is that if a pixel's normalized channel value is originally <b><em>u</em></b>, its resulting normalized value is given by </p>
3374 <div style="text-align: center">
3375 <em class="arg">amp</em> * sin(2*π* (<em class="arg">freq</em> * <b><em>u</em></b> + <em class="arg">phase</em> / 360)) + <em class="arg">bias</em>
3378 <p> For example, the following generates a curve that starts and ends at 0.9 (when <b><em>u</em></b>=0 and 1, resp.), oscillating three times between .7−.2=.5 and .7+.2=.9. </p>
3381 -function Sinusoid 3,-90,.2,.7
3384 <p>The default values of <em class="arg">amp</em> and <em class="arg">bias</em> are both .5. The default for <em class="arg">phase</em> is 0.</p>
3386 <p>The <kbd>Sinusoid</kbd> function generalizes <kbd>Sin</kbd> and <kbd>Cos</kbd> of the <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> operator by allowing varying amplitude, phase and bias. The correspondence is as follows.</p>
3390 <td>-evaluate Sin <em class="arg">freq</em> </td>
3391 <td>-function Sinusoid <em class="arg">freq</em>,0 </td>
3394 <td>-evaluate Cos <em class="arg">freq</em> </td>
3395 <td>-function Sinusoid <em class="arg">freq</em>,90 </td>
3400 <dt><kbd>ArcSin</kbd></dt>
3402 <p>The <kbd>ArcSin</kbd> function generates the inverse curve of a Sinusoid,
3403 and can be used to generate cylindrical distortion and displacement maps.
3404 The curve can be adjusted relative to both the input values and output range
3407 <p style="text-align: center">
3408 -function <kbd>ArcSin</kbd> <em class="arg">width</em>,[<em class="arg">center</em>,[<em class="arg">range</em>,[<em class="arg">bias</em>]]]
3411 <p>with all values given in terms of normalized color values (0.0 for black,
3412 1.0 for white). Defaulting to values covering the full range from 0.0 to 1.0
3413 for bout input (<em class="arg">width</em>), and output (<em
3414 class="arg">width</em>) values. '<code>1.0,0.5,1.0,0.5</code>' </p>
3416 <p style="text-align: center">
3417 <em class="arg">range</em>/π * asin( 2/<em class="arg">width</em> * ( <b><em>u</em></b> - <em class="arg">center</em> ) ) + <em class="arg">bias</em>
3422 <dt><kbd>ArcTan</kbd></dt>
3424 <p>The <kbd>ArcTan</kbd> function generates a curve that smooth crosses from
3425 limit values at infinities, though a center using the given slope value.
3426 All these values can be adjusted via the arguments.</p>
3428 <p style="text-align: center">
3429 -function <kbd>ArcTan</kbd> <em class="arg">slope</em>,[<em class="arg">center</em>,[<em class="arg">range</em>,[<em class="arg">bias</em>]]]
3432 <p>Defaulting to '<code>1.0,0.5,1.0,0.5</code>'.
3435 <p style="text-align: center">
3436 <em class="arg">range</em>/π * atan( <em class="arg">slope</em>*π * ( <b><em>u</em></b> - <em class="arg">center</em> ) ) + <em class="arg">bias</em>
3444 <div style="margin: auto;">
3445 <h4><a id="fuzz"></a>-fuzz <em class="arg">distance</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
3448 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Colors within this <em class="arg">distance</em> are considered equal.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3450 <p>A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color in RGB space. For example, if you want to automagically trim the edges of an image with <a href="#trim">-trim</a> but the image was scanned and the target background color may differ by a small amount. This option can account for these differences.</p>
3452 <p>The <em class="arg">distance</em> can be in absolute intensity units or, by appending <kbd>%</kbd> as a percentage of the maximum possible intensity (255, 65535, or 4294967295).</p>
3455 <div style="margin: auto;">
3456 <h4><a id="fx"></a>-fx <em class="arg">expression</em></h4>
3459 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>apply a mathematical expression to an image or image channels.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3461 <p>If the first character of <em class="arg">expression</em> is <kbd>@</kbd>, the expression is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string.</p>
3463 <p>See <a href="../www/fx.html">FX, The Special Effects Image Operator</a> for a detailed discussion of this option.</p>
3466 <div style="margin: auto;">
3467 <h4><a id="gamma"></a>-gamma <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
3470 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>level of gamma correction.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3472 <p>The same color image displayed on two different workstations may look different due to differences in the display monitor. Use gamma correction to adjust for this color difference. Reasonable values extend from <kbd>0.8</kbd> to <kbd>2.3</kbd>. Gamma less than 1.0 darkens the image and gamma greater than 1.0 lightens it. Large adjustments to image gamma may result in the loss of some image information if the pixel quantum size is only eight bits (quantum range 0 to 255).</p>
3474 <p>Gamma adjusts the image's channel values pixel-by-pixel according to a power law, namely, pow(pixel,1/gamma) or pixel^(1/gamma), where pixel is the normalized or 0 to 1 color value. For example, using a value of gamma=2 is the same as taking the square root of the image.</p>
3476 <p>You can apply separate gamma values to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with a gamma value list delimited with commas (e.g., <kbd>1.7,2.3,1.2</kbd>).</p>
3478 <p>Use <a href="#gamma">+gamma <em class="arg">value</em></a> to set the
3479 image gamma level without actually adjusting the image pixels. This option
3480 is useful if the image is of a known gamma but not set as an image attribute
3481 (e.g. PNG images). Write the "file gamma" which is the reciprocal of the
3482 display gamma; e.g., if your image is sRGB and you want to write a PNG gAMA
3484 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert input.png +gamma .45455 output.png</span></p>(0.45455 is 1/2.2)</p>
3486 <p>Note that gamma adjustments are also available via the <a href="#level">-level</a> operator.</p>
3488 <div style="margin: auto;">
3489 <h4><a id="gaussian-blur"></a>-gaussian-blur <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-gaussian-blur <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
3492 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Blur the image with a Gaussian operator.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3494 <p>Convolve the image with a Gaussian or normal distribution using the given
3495 <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value. The formula is:</p>
3497 <div class="eqn"><img alt="gaussian distribution" width="243px" height="42px" src="../images/gaussian-blur.png"/>
3500 <p>The <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value is the important argument, and
3501 determines the actual amount of blurring that will take place. </p>
3503 <p>The <em class="arg" >Radius</em> is only used to determine the size of the
3504 array which will hold the calculated Gaussian distribution. It should be an
3505 integer. If not given, or set to zero, IM will calculate the largest possible
3506 radius that will provide meaningful results for the Gaussian distribution.
3509 <p>The larger the <em class="arg" >Radius</em> the radius the slower the
3510 operation is. However too small a <em class="arg" >Radius</em>, and sever
3511 aliasing effects may result. As a guideline, <em class="arg" >Radius</em>
3512 should be at least twice the <em class="arg" >Sigma</em> value, though three
3513 times will produce a more accurate result. </p>
3515 <p>This differs from the faster <a href="#blur">-blur</a> operator in that a
3516 full 2-dimensional convolution is used to generate the weighted average of the
3517 neighboring pixels. </p>
3519 <p>The <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
3520 pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
3524 <div style="margin: auto;">
3525 <h4><a id="geometry"></a>-geometry <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
3528 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the preferred size and location of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3530 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
3532 <div style="margin: auto;">
3533 <h4><a id="gravity"></a>-gravity <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3536 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Sets the current gravity suggestion for various other settings and options.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3538 <p>Choices include: <kbd>NorthWest</kbd>, <kbd>North</kbd>, <kbd>NorthEast</kbd>,
3539 <kbd>West</kbd>, <kbd>Center</kbd>, <kbd>East</kbd>, <kbd>SouthWest</kbd>,
3540 <kbd>South</kbd>, <kbd>SouthEast</kbd>. Use <a href="#list">-list gravity</a> to get a complete
3541 list of <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> settings available in your ImageMagick
3544 <p>The direction you choose specifies where to position text or subimages. For example, a gravity of <kbd>Center</kbd> forces the text to be centered within the image. By default, the image gravity is <kbd>NorthWest</kbd>. See <a href="#draw">-draw</a> for more details about graphic primitives. Only the text primitive of <a href="#draw">-draw</a> is affected by the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option.</p>
3546 <p>The <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option is also used in concert with the <a href="#geometry">-geometry</a> setting and other settings or options that take <em class="arg">geometry</em> as an argument, such as the <a href="#crop">-crop</a> option. </p>
3548 <p>If a <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting occurs before another option or setting having a <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument that specifies an offset, the offset is usually applied to the point within the image suggested by the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> argument. Thus, in the following command, for example, suppose the file <kbd>image.png</kbd> has dimensions 200x100. The offset specified by the argument to <a href="#region">-region</a> is (−40,+20). The argument to <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> is <kbd>Center</kbd>, which suggests the midpoint of the image, at the point (100,50). The offset (−40,20) is applied to that point, giving (100−40,50+20)=(60,70), so the specified 10x10 region is located at that point. (In addition, the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> affects the region itself, which is <em>centered</em> at the pixel coordinate (60,70). (See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.)</p>
3550 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -gravity Center -region 10x10-40+20 \ <br/> -negate output.png</span></p>
3551 <p>When used as an option to <a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>, <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> gives the direction that the image gravitates within the composite.</p>
3553 <p>When used as an option to <a href="../www/montage.html">montage</a>, <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> gives the direction that an image gravitates within a tile. The default gravity is <kbd>Center</kbd> for this purpose.</p>
3556 <div style="margin: auto;">
3557 <h4><a id="green-primary"></a>-green-primary <em class="arg">x,y</em></h4>
3560 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>green chromaticity primary point.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3563 <div style="margin: auto;">
3564 <h4><a id="hald-clut"></a>-hald-clut</h4>
3567 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>apply a Hald color lookup table to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3569 <p>A Hald color lookup table is a 3-dimensional color cube mapped to 2
3570 dimensions. Create it with the <kbd>HALD:</kbd> prefix (e.g. HALD:8). You
3571 can apply any color transformation to the Hald image and then use this option
3572 to apply the transform to the image. </p>
3574 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png hald.png -hald-clut transform.png</span></p>
3575 <p>This option provides a convenient method for you to use Gimp or Photoshop
3576 to make color corrections to the Hald CLUT image and subsequently apply them
3577 to multiple images using an ImageMagick script. </p>
3579 <p>Note that the representation is only of the normal RGB color space and that
3580 the whole color value triplet is used for the interpolated lookup of the
3581 represented Hald color cube image. Because of this the operation is not <a
3582 href="#channel" >-channel</a> setting effected, nor can it adjust or modify an
3583 images transparency or alpha/matte channel.</p>
3585 <p>See also <a href="#clut" >-clut</a> which provides color value replacement
3586 of the individual color channels, usually involving a simpler gray-scale
3587 image. E.g: gray-scale to color replacement, or modification by a histogram
3591 <div style="margin: auto;">
3592 <h4><a id="help"></a>-help</h4>
3595 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>print usage instructions.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3597 <div style="margin: auto;">
3598 <h4><a id="highlight-color"></a>-highlight-color <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
3601 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>when comparing images, emphasize pixel differences with this color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3603 <div style="margin: auto;">
3604 <h4><a id="iconGeometry"></a>-iconGeometry <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
3607 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>specify the icon geometry.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3609 <p>Offsets, if present in the geometry specification, are handled in the same manner as the <a href="#geometry">-geometry</a> option, using X11 style to handle negative offsets.</p>
3611 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
3613 <div style="margin: auto;">
3614 <h4><a id="iconic"></a>-iconic</h4>
3617 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>iconic animation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3619 <div style="margin: auto;">
3620 <h4><a id="identify"></a>-identify</h4>
3623 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>identify the format and characteristics of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3625 <p>This information is printed: image scene number; image name; image size; the image class (<em class="arg">DirectClass</em> or <em class="arg">PseudoClass</em>); the total number of unique colors; and the number of seconds to read and transform the image. Refer to <a href="../www/miff.html">MIFF</a> for a description of the image class.</p>
3627 <p>If <a href="#colors">-colors</a> is also specified, the total unique colors in the image and color reduction error values are printed. Refer to <a href="../www/quantize.html">color reduction algorithm</a> for a description of these values.</p>
3629 <p>If <a href="#verbose">-verbose</a> precedes this option, copious
3630 amounts of image properties are displayed including image statistics, profiles,
3631 image histogram, and others.</p>
3633 <div style="margin: auto;">
3634 <h4><a id="ift"></a>-ift</h4>
3637 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>implements the inverse discrete Fourier transform (DFT).</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3639 <p>This option is new as of ImageMagick 6.5.4-3 (and now working for Windows users in ImageMagick 6.6.0-9). It transforms a pair of magnitude and phase images from the frequency domain to a single image in the normal or spatial domain. See for example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform">Fourier Transform</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT">Discrete Fourier Transform</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFT">Fast Fourier Transform</a>.</p>
3641 <p>For example, depending upon the image format used to store the result of the <a href="#fft">-fft</a>, one would use either</p>
3643 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert fft_image.miff -ift fft_image_ift.png</span></p>
3646 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert fft_image-0.png fft_image-1.png -ift fft_image_ift.png</span></p>
3648 <p>The resulting image may need to be cropped due to padding introduced when the original image, prior to the <a href="#fft">-fft</a> or <a href="#fft">+fft</a>, was not square or even dimensioned. Any padding is at the right and/or bottom sides of the image.</p>
3650 <p>The <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</a> delegate library is required to use <a href="#ift">-ift</a>.</p>
3652 <p>Use <a href="#ift">+ift</a> (with HDRI enabled) to transform a pair of real and imaginary images from the frequency domain to a single image in the normal (spatial) domain.</p>
3654 <div style="margin: auto;">
3655 <h4><a id="immutable"></a>-immutable</h4>
3658 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>make image immutable.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3660 <div style="margin: auto;">
3661 <h4><a id="implode"></a>-implode <em class="arg">factor</em></h4>
3664 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>implode image pixels about the center.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3666 <div style="margin: auto;">
3667 <h4><a id="insert"></a>-insert <em class="arg">index</em></h4>
3670 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>insert the last image into the image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3672 <p>This option takes last image in the current image sequence and inserts it at the given index. If a negative index is used, the insert position is calculated before the last image is removed from the sequence. As such <kbd>-insert -1</kbd> will result in no change to the image sequence.</p>
3674 <p>The <kbd>+insert</kbd> option is equivalent to <kbd>-insert -1</kbd>. In other words, insert the last image, at the end of the current image sequence. Consequently this has no effect on the image sequence order.</p>
3676 <div style="margin: auto;">
3677 <h4><a id="intent"></a>-intent <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3680 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>use this type of rendering intent when managing the image color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3682 <p>Use this option to affect the color management operation of an image (see <a href="#profile">-profile</a>). Choose from these intents: <kbd>Absolute, Perceptual, Relative, Saturation</kbd>.</p>
3684 <p>The default intent is undefined.</p>
3686 <p>To print a complete list of rendering intents, use <a href="#list">-list intent</a>.</p>
3688 <div style="margin: auto;">
3689 <h4><a id="interlace"></a>-interlace <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3692 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the type of interlacing scheme.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3706 <p>This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as <kbd>RGB</kbd> or <kbd>YUV</kbd>.</p>
3708 <p><kbd>None</kbd> means do not interlace (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...),</p>
3710 <p><kbd>Line</kbd> uses scanline interlacing (RRR...GGG...BBB...RRR...GGG...BBB...), and.</p>
3712 <p><kbd>Plane</kbd> uses plane interlacing (RRRRRR...GGGGGG...BBBBBB...).</p>
3714 <p><kbd>Partition</kbd> is like plane except the different planes are saved to individual files (e.g. image.R,
3715 image.G, and image.B).</p>
3717 <p>Use <kbd>Line</kbd> or <kbd>Plane</kbd> to create an <kbd>interlaced PNG</kbd> or <kbd>GIF</kbd> or <kbd>progressive JPEG</kbd>
3720 <p>To print a complete list of interlacing schemes, use <a href="#list">-list interlace</a>.</p>
3722 <div style="margin: auto;">
3723 <h4><a id="interpolate"></a>-interpolate <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
3726 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the pixel color interpolation method to use when looking up a color based on a floating point or real value.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3728 <p>When looking up the color of a pixel using a non-integer floating point
3729 value, you typically fall in between the pixel colors defined by the source
3730 image. This setting determines how the color is determined from the colors of
3731 the pixels surrounding that point. That is how to determine the color of a
3732 point that falls between two, or even four different colored pixels. </p>
3735 integer The color of the top-left pixel (floor function)
3736 nearest-neighbor The nearest pixel to the lookup point (rounded function)
3737 average The average color of the surrounding four pixels
3738 bilinear A double linear interpolation of pixels (the default)
3739 mesh Divide area into two flat triangular interpolations
3740 bicubic Fitted bicubic-spines of surrounding 16 pixels
3741 spline Direct spline curves (colors are blurred)
3742 filter Use resize <a href="#filter">-filter</a> settings
3745 <p>This most important for distortion operators such as <a href="#distort"
3746 >-distort</a>, <a href="#implode" >-implode</a>, <a href="#transform"
3747 >-transform</a> and <a href="#fx" >-fx</a>. </p>
3749 <p>To print a complete list of interpolation methods, use <a href="#list">-list interpolate</a>.</p>
3751 <p>See also <a href="#virtual-pixel" >-virtual-pixel</a>, for control of the
3752 lookup for positions outside the boundaries of the image. </p>
3755 <div style="margin: auto;">
3756 <h4><a id="interline-spacing"></a>-interline-spacing <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
3759 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the space between two text lines.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3761 <div style="margin: auto;">
3762 <h4><a id="interword-spacing"></a>-interword-spacing <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
3765 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the space between two words.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3767 <div style="margin: auto;">
3768 <h4><a id="kerning"></a>-kerning <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
3771 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the space between two letters.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3773 <div style="margin: auto;">
3774 <h4><a id="label"></a>-label <em class="arg">name</em></h4>
3777 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>assign a label to an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3779 <p>Use this option to assign a specific label to the image, as it is read in
3780 or created. You can use the <a href="#set" >-set</a> operation to re-assign
3781 a the labels of images already read in. Image formats such as TIFF, PNG,
3782 MIFF, supports saving the label information with the image.</p>
3784 <p>When saving an image to a <em class="arg">PostScript</em> file, any label
3785 assigned to an image is used as a header string to print above the postscript
3788 <p>You can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image
3789 attribute by embedding special format character. See <a href="../www/escape.html">Format and Print Image
3790 Properties</a> for details of the percent escape codes.</p>
3795 -label "%m:%f %wx%h" bird.miff
3798 <p>assigns an image label of <kbd>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</kbd> to the
3799 "<kbd>bird.miff</kbd>" image and whose width is 512 and height is 480, as it
3800 is read in. If a <a href="#label">+label</a> option was used instead, any
3801 existing label present in the image would be used. You can remove all labels
3802 from an image by assigning the empty string. </p>
3804 <p>A label is not drawn on the image, but is embedded in the image datastream
3805 via <em>Label</em> tag or similar mechanism. If you want the label to be
3806 visible on the image itself, use the <a href="#draw">-draw</a> option, or
3807 during the final processing in the creation of a image montage.</p>
3809 <p>If the first character of <em class="arg">string</em> is <em
3810 class="arg">@</em>, the image label is read from a file titled by the
3811 remaining characters in the string. Labels in a file are literal, no embedded
3812 formatting characters are recognized.</p>
3815 <div style="margin: auto;">
3816 <h4><a id="lat"></a>-lat <em class="arg">width</em><br />-lat <em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">offset</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
3819 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>perform local adaptive threshold.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3821 <p>Adaptively threshold each pixel based on the value of pixels in a
3822 surrounding window. If the current pixel is lighter than this average plus
3823 the optional <kbd>offset</kbd>, then it is made white, otherwise it is made
3824 black. Small variations in pixel values such as found in scanned documents
3825 can be ignored if offset is positive. A negative offset will make it more
3826 sensitive to those small variations. </p>
3828 <p>This is commonly used to threshold images with an uneven background. It is
3829 based on the assumption that average color of the small window is the
3830 the local background color, from which to separate the foreground color. </p>
3833 <div style="margin: auto;">
3834 <h4><a id="layers"></a>-layers <em class="arg">method</em></h4>
3837 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>handle multiple images forming a set of image layers or animation frames.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
3839 <p>Perform various image operation methods to a ordered sequence of images
3840 which may represent either a set of overlaid 'image layers', a GIF disposal
3841 animation, or a fully-'coalesced' animation sequence. </p>
3846 <th align="left" style="width: 8%">Method</th>
3847 <th align="left">Description</th>
3851 <td valign="top">compare-any</td>
3852 <td valign="top">Crop the second and later frames to the smallest rectangle
3853 that contains all the differences between the two images. No GIF <a
3854 href="#dispose" >-dispose</a> methods are taken into account. </td>
3857 <tr><td></td><td>This exactly the same as the <a href="#deconstruct"
3858 >-deconstruct</a> operator, and does not preserve animations normal
3859 working, especially when animation used layer disposal methods such as
3860 '<kbd>Previous</kbd>' or '<kbd>Background</kbd>'. </td>
3864 <td valign="top">compare-clear</td>
3865 <td valign="top">As '<kbd>compare-any</kbd>' but crop to the bounds of any
3866 opaque pixels which become transparent in the second frame. That is the
3867 smallest image needed to mask or erase pixels for the next frame. </td>
3871 <td valign="top">compare-overlay</td>
3872 <td valign="top">As '<kbd>compare-any</kbd>' but crop to pixels that add
3873 extra color to the next image, as a result of overlaying color pixels.
3874 That is the smallest single overlaid image to add or change colors. </td>
3877 <tr><td></td><td>This can be used with the <a href="#compose" >-compose</a> alpha
3878 composition method '<kbd>change-mask</kbd>', to reduce the image to
3879 just the pixels that need to be overlaid. </td>
3883 <td valign="top">coalesce</td>
3884 <td valign="top">Equivalent to a call to the <a href="#coalesce"
3885 >-coalesce</a> operator. Apply the layer disposal methods set in the
3886 current image sequence to form a fully defined animation sequence, as
3887 it should be displayed. Effectively converting a GIF animation into a
3888 'film strip'-like animation. </td>
3892 <td valign="top">composite</td>
3893 <td valign="top">Alpha Composition of two image lists, separated by a
3894 "<kbd>null:</kbd>" image, with the destination image list first, and
3895 the source images last. An image from each list are composited
3896 together until one list is finished. The separator image and source
3897 image lists are removed. </td>
3902 <td>The <a href="#geometry" >-geometry</a> offset is adjusted according
3903 to <a href="#gravity" >-gravity</a> in accordance of the virtual
3904 canvas size of the first image in each list. Unlike a normal <a
3905 href="#composite" >-composite</a> operation, the canvas offset is also
3906 added to the final composite positioning of each image. </td> </tr>
3909 <td>If one of the image lists only contains one image, that image is
3910 applied to all the images in the other image list, regardless of which
3911 list it is. In this case it is the image meta-data of the list which
3917 <td valign="top">dispose</td>
3918 <td valign="top">This like '<kbd>coalesce</kbd>' but shows the look of
3919 the animation after the layer disposal method has been applied, before
3920 the next sub-frame image is overlaid. That is the 'dispose' image that
3921 results from the application of the GIF <a href="#dispose"
3922 >-dispose</a> method. This allows you to check what
3923 is going wrong with a particular animation you may be developing.
3928 <td valign="top">flatten</td>
3929 <td valign="top">Create a canvas the size of the first images virtual
3930 canvas using the current <a href="#background" >-background</a> color,
3931 and <a href="#compose" >-compose</a> each image in turn onto that
3932 canvas. Images falling outside that canvas is clipped. Final
3933 image will have a zero virtual canvas offset. </td>
3937 <td>This usually used as one of the final 'image layering' operations
3938 overlaying all the prepared image layers into a final image. </td>
3942 <td>For a single image this method can also be used to fillout a virtual
3943 canvas with real pixels, or to underlay a opaque color to remove
3944 transparency from an image.</td>
3949 <td valign="top">merge</td>
3950 <td valign="top">As 'flatten' method but merging all the given image
3951 layers to create a new layer image just large enough to hold all the
3952 image without clipping or extra space. The new images virtual offset
3953 will preserve the position of the new layer, even if this offset is
3954 negative. The virtual canvas size of the first image is preserved.
3958 <tr><td></td><td>Caution is advised when handling image layers with
3959 negative offsets as few image file formats handle them correctly.
3960 Following this operation method with <a href="#repage" >+repage</a>
3961 will remove the layer offset, and create a image in which all the
3962 overlaid image positions relative to each other is preserved, though
3963 not necessarily exactly where you specified them.
3967 <tr><td></td><td>See also 'trim-bounds' below which is closely related but
3968 without doing the'flatten' to merge the images together. </td>
3972 <td valign="top">mosaic</td>
3973 <td valign="top">As 'flatten' method but expanding the initial canvas size
3974 of the first image in a positive direction only so as to hold all the
3975 image layers. However as a virtual canvas is 'locked' to the origin,
3976 by its own definition, image layers with a negative offsets will still
3977 become clipped by the top and left edges. See 'merge' or 'trim-bounds'
3978 if this could be a problem. </td>
3982 <tr><td></td><td>This method is commonly used to layout individual image
3983 using various offset but without knowing the final canvas size. The
3984 resulting image will, like 'flatten' not have any virtual offset, so
3985 can be saved to any image file format. </td>
3990 <td valign="top">optimize</td>
3991 <td valign="top">Optimize a coalesced animation, into GIF animation using
3992 a number of general techniques. This currently a short cut to
3993 apply both the '<kbd>optimize-frame</kbd>', and
3994 '<kbd>optimize-transparency</kbd>' methods but may be expanded to
3995 include other optimization methods as they are developed. </td>
3999 <td valign="top">optimize-frame</td>
4000 <td valign="top">Optimize a coalesced animation, into GIF animation by
4001 reducing the number of pixels per frame as much as possible by
4002 attempting to pick the best layer disposal method to use, while ensuring
4003 the result will continue to animate properly. </td>
4006 <tr><td></td><td> There is no guarantee that the best optimization is found.
4007 But then no reasonably fast GIF optimization algorithm can do this.
4008 However this does seem to do better than most other GIF frame
4009 optimizers seen. </td>
4013 <td valign="top">optimize-plus</td>
4014 <td valign="top">As '<kbd>optimize-frame</kbd>' but attempt to improve the
4015 overall optimization by adding extra frames to the animation, without
4016 changing the final look or timing of the animation. The frames are
4017 added to attempt to separate the clearing of pixels from the
4018 overlaying of new additional pixels from one animation frame to the
4019 next. If this does not improve the optimization (for the next frame
4020 only), it will fall back to the results of the previous normal
4021 '<kbd>optimize-frame</kbd>' technique. </td>
4024 <tr><td></td><td>There is the possibility that the change in the disposal
4025 style will result in a worsening in the optimization of later frames,
4026 though this is unlikely. In other words there no guarantee that it is
4027 better than the normal '<kbd>optimize-frame</kbd>' technique. For some
4028 animations however you can get a vast improvement in the final
4029 animation size. </td>
4033 <td valign="top">optimize-transparency</td>
4034 <td valign="top">Given a GIF animation, replace any pixel in the sub-frame
4035 overlay images with transparency, if it does not change the resulting
4036 animation by more than the current <a href="#fuzz" >-fuzz</a> factor.
4040 <tr><td></td><td>This should allow a existing frame optimized GIF animation
4041 to compress into a smaller file size due to larger areas of one
4042 (transparent) color rather than a pattern of multiple colors repeating
4043 the current disposed image of the last frame. </td>
4047 <td valign="top">remove-dups</td>
4048 <td valign="top">Remove (and merge time delays) of duplicate consecutive
4049 images, so as to simplify layer overlays of coalesced animations.
4053 <tr><td></td><td>Usually this a result of using a constant time delay
4054 across the whole animation, or after a larger animation was split into
4055 smaller sub-animations. The duplicate frames could also have been
4056 used as part of some frame optimization methods. </td>
4060 <td valign="top">remove-zero</td>
4061 <td valign="top">Remove any image with a zero time delay, unless ALL the
4062 images have a zero time delay (and is not a proper timed animation, a
4063 warning is then issued). </td>
4066 <tr><td></td><td>In a GIF animation, such images are usually frames which
4067 provide partial intermediary updates between the frames that are
4068 actually displayed to users. These frames are usually added for
4069 improved frame optimization in GIF animations. </td>
4073 <td valign="top">trim-bounds</td>
4074 <td valign="top">Find the bounds of all the images in the current
4075 image sequence, then adjust the offsets so all images are contained on
4076 a minimal positive canvas. None of the image data is modified or
4077 merged, only the individual image virtual canvas size and offset.
4078 All the images is given the same canvas size, and and will have
4079 a positive offset, but will remain in the same position relative to
4080 each other. As a result of the minimal canvas size at least one image
4081 will touch every edge of that canvas. The image data touching those
4082 edges however may be transparent. </td>
4085 <tr><td></td><td>The result is much like if you used 'merge' followed by a
4086 <a href="#repage" >+repage</a> option, except that all the images
4087 have been kept separate. If 'flatten' is used after using
4088 'trim-bounds' you will get the same result. </td>
4094 <p>To print a complete list of layer types, use <a href="#list">-list layers</a>.</p>
4096 <p>The operators <a href="#coalesce" >-coalesce</a>, <a href="#deconstruct"
4097 >-deconstruct</a>, <a href="#flatten" >-flatten</a>, and <a href="#mosaic"
4098 >-mosaic</a> are only aliases for the above methods and may be depreciated in
4099 the future. Also see <a href="#page" >-page</a>, <a href="#repage"
4100 >-repage</a> operators, the <a href="#compose" >-compose</a> setting, and the
4101 GIF <a href="#dispose" >-dispose</a> and <a href="#delay" >-delay</a>
4105 <div style="margin: auto;">
4106 <h4><a id="level"></a>-level <em class="arg">black_point</em>{,<em class="arg">white_point</em>}{<em class="arg">%</em>}{,<em class="arg">gamma</em>}</h4>
4109 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>adjust the level of image channels.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4111 <p>Given one, two or three values delimited with commas: black-point,
4112 white-point, gamma (for example: 10,250,1.0 or 2%,98%,0.5). The black and
4113 white points range from 0 to <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>, or from 0 to 100%; if the white
4114 point is omitted it is set to (<em class="QR">QuantumRange</em> - black_point), so as to center
4115 contrast changes. If a <kbd>%</kbd> sign is present anywhere in the string,
4116 both black and white points are percentages of the full color range. Gamma
4117 will do a <a href="#gamma">-gamma</a> adjustment of the values. If it is
4118 omitted, the default of 1.0 (no gamma correction) is assumed.</p>
4120 <p>In normal usage (<kbd>-level</kbd>) the image values are stretched so that
4121 the given '<kbd>black_point</kbd>' value in the original image is set to
4122 zero (or black), while the given '<kbd>white_point</kbd>' value is set to
4123 <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em> (or white). This provides you with direct contrast adjustments
4124 to the image. The '<kbd>gamma</kbd>' of the resulting image will then be
4127 <p>From ImageMagick v6.4.1-9 using the plus form of the operator (<kbd>+level</kbd>) or
4128 adding the special '!' flag anywhere in the argument list, will cause the
4129 operator to do the reverse of the level adjustment. That is a zero, or
4130 <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em> value (black, and white, resp.) in the original image, is
4131 adjusted to the given level values, allowing you to de-contrast, or compress
4132 the channel values within the image. The '<kbd>gamma</kbd>' is adjusted before the level adjustment to de-contrast the image is made. </p>
4134 <p>Only the channels defined by the current <a href="#channel">-channel</a>
4135 setting are adjusted (defaults to RGB color channels only), allowing you to
4136 limit the effect of this operator. </p>
4138 <p>Please note that the transparency channel is treated as 'matte'
4139 values (0 is opaque) and not as 'alpha' values (0 is transparent).</p>
4142 <div style="margin: auto;">
4143 <h4><a id="level-colors"></a>-level-colors {<em
4144 class="arg">black_color</em>}{,}{<em class="arg">white_color</em>}</h4>
4147 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>adjust the level of an image using the provided dash separated colors.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4149 <p>This function is exactly like <a href="#level">-level</a>, except that the
4150 value value for each color channel is determined by the
4151 '<kbd>black_color</kbd>' and '<kbd>white_color</kbd>' colors given (as
4152 described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option). </p>
4154 <p>This effectually means the colors provided to <kbd>-level-colors</kbd>
4155 is mapped to become 'black' and 'white' respectively, with all the other
4156 colors linearly adjusted (or clipped) to match that change. Each channel is
4157 adjusted separately using the channel values of the colors specified. </p>
4159 <p>On the other hand the plus form of the operator (<kbd>+level-colors</kbd>)
4160 will map the image color 'black' and 'white' to the given colors
4161 respectively, resulting in a gradient (de-contrasting) tint of the image to
4162 those colors. This can also be used to convert a plain gray-scale image into a
4163 one using the gradient of colors specified. </p>
4165 <p>By supplying a single color with a comma separator either before or after
4166 that color, will just replace the respective 'black' or 'white' point
4167 respectively. But if no comma separator is provided, the given color is
4168 used for both the black and white color points, making the operator either
4169 threshold the images around that color (- form) or set all colors to that
4170 color (+ form). </p>
4173 <div style="margin: auto;">
4174 <h4><a id="limit"></a>-limit <em class="arg">type value</em></h4>
4177 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the pixel cache resource limit.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4179 <p>Choose from: <kbd>area</kbd>, <kbd>disk</kbd>, <kbd>file</kbd>, <kbd>map</kbd>, <kbd>memory</kbd>, <kbd>threads</kbd>, or <kbd>time</kbd>.</p>
4181 <p>The value for <kbd>file</kbd> is in number of files. The other limits are in bytes. By default the limits are 768 files, 2GB of image area, 1.5GiB memory, 8GiB memory map, and 18.45EB of disk. These limits are adjusted relative to the available resources on your computer if this information is available. When any limit is reached, ImageMagick fails in some fashion but attempts to take compensating actions, if possible. For example, the following limits memory:</p>
4184 -limit memory 32MiB -limit map 64MiB
4187 <p>Use <a href="#list">-list resource</a> to list the current limits. For example, our system shows these limits:</p>
4189 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>identify -list resource</span><span class='crtout'></span></p><pre class="text">
4190 File Area Memory Map Disk Thread Time
4191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4192 768 12.404GB 8.6642GiB 23.104GiB 18.446744EB 8 unlimited
4195 <p>Requests for pixel storage to keep intermediate images are satisfied by one of three resource categories: in-memory pool, memory-mapped files pool, and disk pool (in that order) depending on the <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#limit">‑limit</a> settings and whether the system honors a resource request. If the total size of allocated pixel storage in the given pool reaches the corresponding limit, the request is passed to the next pool. Additionally, requests that exceed the <kbd>area</kbd> limit automagically are allocated on disk.</p>
4197 <p>To illustrate how ImageMagick utilizes resource limits, consider a typical image resource request. First, ImageMagick tries to allocate the pixels in memory. The request might be denied if the resource request exceeds the <kbd>memory</kbd> limit or if the system does not honor the request. If a memory request is not honored, the pixels are allocated to disk and the file is memory-mapped. However, if the allocation request exceeds the <kbd>map</kbd> limit, the resource allocation goes to disk. In all cases, if the resource request exceeds the <kbd>area</kbd> limit, the pixels are automagically cached to disk. If the disk has a hard limit, the program fails.</p>
4199 <p>In most cases you simply do not need to concern yourself with resource limits. ImageMagick chooses reasonable defaults and most images do not tax your computer resources. Where limits do come in handy is when you process images that are large or on shared systems where ImageMagick can consume all or most of the available memory. In this case, the ImageMagick workflow slows other processes or, in extreme cases, brings the system to a halt. Under these circumstances, setting limits give some assurances that the ImageMagick workflow will not interfere with other concurrent uses of the computer. For example, assume you have a web interface that processes images uploaded from the Internet. To assure ImageMagick does not exceed 10mb of memory you can simply set the area limit to 10mb:</p>
4205 <p>Now whenever a large image is processed, the pixels are automagically cached to disk instead of memory. This of course implies that large images typically process very slowly, simply because pixel processing in memory can be an order of magnitude faster than on disk. Because your web site users might inadvertently upload a huge image to process, you should set a disk limit as well:</p>
4208 -limit area 10mb -limit disk 500mb
4211 <p>Here ImageMagick stops processing if an image requires more than 500MB of disk storage.</p>
4213 <p>In addition to command-line resource limit option, resources can be set with <a href="../www/resources.html#environment">environment variables</a>. Set the environment variables <kbd>MAGICK_AREA_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_FILE_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_MAP_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT</kbd>, <kbd>MAGICK_TIME_LIMIT</kbd> for limits of image area, disk space, open files, heap memory, memory map, number of threads of execution, and maximum elapsed time in seconds respectively.</p>
4215 <p> Inquisitive users can try adding <a href="#debug">-debug cache</a> to their commands and then scouring the generated output for references to the pixel cache, in order to determine how the pixel cache was allocated and how resources were consumed. Advanced Unix/Linux users can pipe that output through <kbd>grep memory|open|destroy|disk</kbd> for more readable sifting.
4218 <p>For more about ImageMagick's use of resources, see the section <b>Cache Storage and Resource Requirements</b> on the <a href="../www/architecture.html#cache">Architecture</a> page.
4221 <div style="margin: auto;">
4222 <h4><a id="linear-stretch"></a>-linear-stretch <em class="arg">black-point</em><br />-linear-stretch <em class="arg">black-point</em>{x<em class="arg">white-point</em>}{<em class="arg">%</em>}}</h4>
4225 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Linear with saturation stretch.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4227 <p>This is very similar to <a href="#contrast-stretch" >-contrast-stretch</a>,
4228 and uses a 'histogram bin' to determine the range of color values that needs to
4229 be stretched. However it then stretches those colors using the <a
4230 href="#level" >-level</a> operator.</p>
4232 <p>As such while the initial determination may have 'binning' round off
4233 effects, the image colors are stretched mathematically, rather than using the
4234 histogram bins. This makes the operator more accurate. </p>
4236 <p>note however that a <a href="#linear-stretch" >-linear-stretch</a> of
4237 '<kbd>0</kbd>' does nothing, while a value of '<kbd>1</kbd>' does a near
4238 perfect stretch of the color range. </p>
4240 <p>See also <a href="#auto-level" >-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect'
4241 normalization of mathematical images. </p>
4243 <p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
4246 <div style="margin: auto;">
4247 <h4><a id="linewidth"></a>-linewidth</h4>
4250 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the line width for subsequent draw operations.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4252 <div style="margin: auto;">
4253 <h4><a id="liquid-rescale"></a>-liquid-rescale <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
4256 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>rescale image with seam-carving.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4258 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
4260 <div style="margin: auto;">
4261 <h4><a id="list"></a>-list <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
4264 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Print a list of supported arguments for various options or settings. Choose from these list types:</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4267 Align Alpha Boolean Channel
4268 Class ClipPath Coder Color
4269 Colorspace Command Compose Compress
4270 Configure DataType Debug Decoration
4271 Delegate Direction Dispose Distort
4272 Dither Endian Evaluate FillRule
4273 Filter Font Format Function
4274 Gravity ImageList Intent Interlace
4275 Interpolate Kernel Layers LineCap
4276 LineJoin List Locale LogEvent
4277 Log Magic Method Metric
4278 Mime Mode Morphology Module
4279 Noise Orientation Policy PolicyDomain
4280 PolicyRights Preview Primitive QuantumFormat
4281 Resource SparseColor Storage Stretch
4282 Style Threshold Type Units
4283 Validate VirtualPixel
4286 <p>These lists vary depending on your version of ImageMagick. Use "<kbd>-list
4287 list</kbd>" to get a complete listing of all the "<kbd>-list</kbd>" arguments
4290 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>identify -list list</span></p>
4291 <div style="margin: auto;">
4292 <h4><a id="log"></a>-log <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
4295 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify format for debug log.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4297 <p>This option specifies the format for the log printed when the <a
4298 href="#debug">-debug</a> option is active.</p>
4300 <p>You can display the following components by embedding special format
4320 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -debug coders -log "%u %m:%l %e" in.gif out.png</span></p>
4321 <p>The default behavior is to print all of the components.</p>
4323 <div style="margin: auto;">
4324 <h4><a id="loop"></a>-loop <em class="arg">iterations</em></h4>
4327 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>add Netscape loop extension to your GIF animation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4329 <p>Set iterations to zero to repeat the animation an infinite number of times,
4330 otherwise the animation repeats itself up to <em class="arg">iterations</em>
4333 <div style="margin: auto;">
4334 <h4><a id="lowlight-color"></a>-lowlight-color <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
4337 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>when comparing images, de-emphasize pixel differences with this color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4339 <div style="margin: auto;">
4340 <h4><a id="magnify"></a>-magnify <em class="arg">factor</em></h4>
4343 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>magnify the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4346 <div style="margin: auto;">
4347 <h4><a id="map"></a>-map <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
4350 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Display image using this <em class="arg">type</em>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
4352 <p>Choose from these <em class="arg">Standard Colormap</em> types:</p>
4363 <p>The <em class="arg">X server</em> must support the <em class="arg">Standard
4364 Colormap</em> you choose, otherwise an error occurs. Use <kbd>list</kbd> as
4365 the type and <kbd>display</kbd> searches the list of colormap types in
4366 <kbd>top-to-bottom</kbd> order until one is located. See <em
4367 class="arg">xstdcmap(1)</em> for one way of creating Standard Colormaps.</p>
4370 <div style="margin: auto;">
4371 <h4><a id="map_stream_"></a>-map <em class="arg">components</em></h4>
4374 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>pixel map.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/stream.html">stream</a>]</td></tr></table>
4376 <p>Here are the valid components of a map:</p>
4379 r red pixel component
4380 g green pixel component
4381 b blue pixel component
4382 a alpha pixel component (0 is transparent)
4383 o opacity pixel component (0 is opaque)
4384 i grayscale intensity pixel component
4385 c cyan pixel component
4386 m magenta pixel component
4387 y yellow pixel component
4388 k black pixel component
4389 p pad component (always 0)
4392 <p>You can specify as many of these components as needed in any order (e.g.
4393 bgr). The components can repeat as well (e.g. rgbr).</p>
4396 <div style="margin: auto;">
4397 <h4><a id="mask"></a>-mask
4398 <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
4401 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Prevent updates to image pixels specified by the mask.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4403 <p>This the same as using a mask used for composite masking operations, with
4404 grayscale values causing blended updates of the image the mask is attached to.
4407 <p>Use <a href="#mask">+mask</a> to remove the mask from images.</p>
4409 <p>Also see <a href="#clip-mask">-clip-mask</a> which work in the same way,
4410 but with strict boolean masking. </p>
4412 <div style="margin: auto;">
4413 <h4><a id="mattecolor"></a>-mattecolor <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
4416 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify the color to be used with the <a href="#frame">-frame</a> option.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4418 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
4420 <p>The default matte color is <kbd>#BDBDBD</kbd>, <span
4421 style="background-color: #bdbdbd;">this shade of gray</span>.</p>
4423 <div style="margin: auto;">
4424 <h4><a id="maximum"></a>-maximum</h4>
4427 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>return the maximum intensity of an image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4429 <p>Select the 'maximum' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
4431 <p>This is legacy option from the <a href="#statistic" >method</A> of the same
4434 <div style="margin: auto;">
4435 <h4><a id="median"></a>-median <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
4438 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>apply a median filter to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4440 <p>Select the 'middle' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
4442 <p>This is legacy option from the <a href="#statistic" >method</A> of the same
4445 <div style="margin: auto;">
4446 <h4><a id="metric"></a>-metric <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
4449 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Output to STDERR a measure of the differences between images according to the <em class="arg">type</em> given metric.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4454 AE absolute error count, number of different pixels (-fuzz effected)
4455 FUZZ mean color distance
4456 MAE mean absolute error (normalized), average channel error distance
4457 MEPP mean error per pixel (normalized mean error, normalized peak error)
4458 MSE mean error squared, average of the channel error squared
4459 NCC normalized cross correlation
4460 PAE peak absolute (normalize peak absolute)
4461 PSNR peak signal to noise ratio
4462 RMSE root mean squared (normalized root mean squared)
4465 <p>Control the '<kbd>AE</kbd>', or absolute count of pixels that are different,
4466 with the <a href="#fuzz" >-fuzz</a> factor (ignore pixels which
4467 only changed by a small amount). Use '<kbd>PAE</kbd>' to find the
4468 size of the <a href="#fuzz" >-fuzz</a> factor needed to make all pixels
4469 'similar', while '<kbd>MAE</kbd>' determines the factor needed
4470 for about half the pixels to be similar. </p>
4472 <p>The '<kbd>MEPP</kbd>' metric returns three different metrics
4473 ('<kbd>MAE</kbd>', '<kbd>MAE</kbd>' normalized, and '<kbd>PAE</kbd>'
4474 normalized) from a single comparison run. </p>
4476 <p>To print a complete list of metrics, use the <a href="#list">-list
4477 metrics</a> option.</p>
4480 <div style="margin: auto;">
4481 <h4><a id="minimum"></a>-minimum</h4>
4484 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>return the minimum intensity of an image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4486 <p>Select the 'minimal' value from all the surrounding pixels. </p>
4488 <p>This is legacy option from the <a href="#statistic" >method</A> of the same
4493 <div style="margin: auto;">
4494 <h4><a id="mode"></a>-mode <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
4497 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>make each pixel the 'predominant color' of the neighborhood.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a>, <a href="../www/mogrify.html">mogrify</a>]</td></tr></table>
4499 <div style="margin: auto;">
4500 <h4>-mode <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
4503 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Mode of operation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/montage.html">montage</a>]</td></tr></table>
4505 <p>Choose the <em class="arg">value</em> from these styles: <kbd>Frame,
4506 Unframe, or Concatenate</kbd></p>
4508 <p>Use the <a href="#list" >-list</a> option with a '<kbd>Mode</kbd>' argument
4509 for a list of <a href="#mode" >-mode</a> arguments available in your
4510 ImageMagick installation.</p>
4513 <div style="margin: auto;">
4514 <h4><a id="modulate"></a>-modulate <em class="arg">brightness</em>[,<em class="arg">saturation</em>,<em class="arg">hue</em>]</h4>
4517 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Vary the <em class="arg">brightness</em>, <em
4518 class="arg">saturation</em>, and <em class="arg">hue</em> of an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4520 <p>The arguments are given as a percentages of variation. A value of 100 means
4521 no change, and any missing values are taken to mean 100.</p>
4523 <p>The <em class="arg">brightness</em> is a multiplier of the overall
4524 brightness of the image, so 0 means pure black, 50 is half as bright, 200 is
4525 twice as bright. To invert its meaning <a href="#negate">-negate</a> the image
4526 before and after. </p>
4528 <p>The <em class="arg">saturation</em> controls the amount of color in an
4529 image. For example, 0 produce a grayscale image, while a large value such as
4530 200 produce a very colorful, 'cartoonish' color.</p>
4532 <p>The <em class="arg">hue</em> argument causes a "rotation" of the colors
4533 within the image by the amount specified. For example, 50 results in
4534 a counter-clockwise rotation of 90, mapping red shades to purple, and so on.
4535 A value of either 0 or 200 results in a complete 180 degree rotation of the
4536 image. Using a value of 300 is a 360 degree rotation resulting in no change to
4537 the original image. </p>
4539 <p>For example, to increase the color brightness by 20% and decrease the color
4540 saturation by 10% and leave the hue unchanged, use <a
4541 href="#modulate">-modulate 120,90</a>.</p>
4543 <p>Use <a href="#set">-set</a> attribute of '<kbd
4544 class="arg">option:modulate:colorspace</kbd>' to specify which colorspace to
4545 modulate. Choose from <kbd>HSB</kbd>, <kbd>HSL</kbd> (the default), or
4546 <kbd>HWB</kbd>. For example,</p>
4548 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.png -set option:modulate:colorspace hsb -modulate 120,90 modulate.png</span></p>
4550 <div style="margin: auto;">
4551 <h4><a id="monitor"></a>-monitor</h4>
4554 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>monitor progress.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4557 <div style="margin: auto;">
4558 <h4><a id="monochrome"></a>-monochrome</h4>
4561 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>transform the image to black and white.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4563 <div style="margin: auto;">
4564 <h4><a id="morph"></a>-morph <em class="arg">frames</em></h4>
4567 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>morphs an image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4569 <p>Both the image pixels and size are linearly interpolated to give the
4570 appearance of a metamorphosis from one image to the next, over all the images
4571 in the current image list. The added images are the equivalent of a <a
4572 href="#blend">-blend</a> composition. The <em class="arg">frames</em>
4573 argument determine how many images to interpolate between each image. </p>
4576 <div style="margin: auto;">
4577 <h4><a id="morphology"></a>-morphology</h4>
4578 <h4>-morphology <em class="arg">method</em> <em class="arg">kernel</em></h4>
4581 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>apply a morphology method to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4583 <p>Until I get around to writing a option summary for this, see <a
4584 href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/" >IM Usage Examples,
4585 Morphology</a>. </p>
4588 <div style="margin: auto;">
4589 <h4><a id="mosaic"></a>-mosaic</h4>
4592 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>an simple alias for the <a href="#layers" >-layers</a> method "mosaic"</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4595 <div style="margin: auto;">
4596 <h4><a id="motion-blur"></a>-motion-blur <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-motion-blur <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">angle</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
4599 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate motion blur.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4601 <p>Blur with the given radius, standard deviation (sigma), and angle. The
4602 angle given is the angle toward which the image is blurred. That is the
4603 direction people would consider the object is coming from. </p>
4605 <p>Note that the blur is not uniform distribution, giving the motion a
4606 definite sense of direction of movement. </p>
4608 <p>The <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
4609 pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
4612 <div style="margin: auto;">
4613 <h4><a id="name"></a>-name</h4>
4616 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>name an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4617 <div style="margin: auto;">
4618 <h4><a id="negate"></a>-negate</h4>
4621 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>replace each pixel with its complementary color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4623 <p>The red, green, and blue intensities of an image are negated. White becomes black, yellow becomes blue, etc. Use <a href="#negate">+negate</a> to only negate the grayscale pixels of the image.</p>
4625 <div style="margin: auto;">
4626 <h4><a id="noise"></a>-noise <em class="arg">geometry</em><br/>
4627 +noise <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
4630 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Add or reduce noise in an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4632 <p>The principal function of noise peak elimination filter is to smooth the objects within an image without losing edge information and without creating undesired structures. The central idea of the algorithm is to replace a pixel with its next neighbor in value within a pixel window, if this pixel has been found to be noise. A pixel is defined as noise if and only if this pixel is a maximum or minimum within the pixel window.</p>
4634 <p>Use <kbd><a href="#noise">-noise</a> <em class="arg">radius</em></kbd> to specify the width of the neighborhood when reducing noise.</p>
4636 <p>Use <a href="#noise">+noise</a> followed by a noise <em class="arg">type</em> to add noise to an image. Choose from these noise types:</p>
4648 <p>To print a complete list of noises, use the <a href="#list">-list noise</a> option.</p>
4650 <p>Also see the <a href="#evaluate">-evaluate</a> noise functions that allows
4651 the use of a controlling value to specify the amount of noise that should be
4652 added to an image. </p>
4655 <div style="margin: auto;">
4656 <h4><a id="normalize"></a>-normalize</h4>
4659 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Increase the contrast in an image by <em>stretching</em> the range of intensity values.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4661 <p>The intensity values are stretched to cover the entire range of possible
4662 values. While doing so, black-out at most <em>2%</em> of the pixels and
4663 white-out at most <em>1%</em> of the pixels.</p>
4665 <p>Note that as of ImageMagick 6.4.7-0, <a href="#normalize" >-normalize</a>
4666 is equivalent to <a href="#contrast-stretch" >-contrast-stretch 2%x1%</a>.
4667 (Before this version, it was equivalent to <a href="#contrast-stretch"
4668 >-contrast-stretch 2%x99%</a>).</p>
4670 <p>All the channels are normalized in concert by the came amount so as to
4671 preserve color integrity, when the default <a href="#channel" >+channel</a>
4672 setting is in use. Specifying any other <a href="#channel" >-channel</a>
4673 setting will normalize the RGB channels independently.</p>
4675 <p>See <a href="#contrast-stretch" >-contrast-stretch</a> for more details.
4676 Also see <a href="#auto-level" >-auto-level</a> for a 'perfect' normalization
4677 that is better suited to mathematically generated images. </p>
4679 <p>This operator is under review for re-development. </p>
4682 <div style="margin: auto;">
4683 <h4><a id="ordered-dither"></a>-ordered-dither <em class="arg">threshold_map</em>{,<em class="arg">level</em>...}</h4>
4686 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>dither the image using a pre-defined ordered dither <em
4687 class="arg">threshold map</em> specified, and a uniform color map with the
4688 given number of <em class="arg">levels</em> per color channel . </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4690 <p>You can choose from these standard threshold maps:</p>
4693 threshold 1x1 Threshold 1x1 (non-dither)
4694 checks 2x1 Checkerboard 2x1 (dither)
4695 o2x2 2x2 Ordered 2x2 (dispersed)
4696 o3x3 3x3 Ordered 3x3 (dispersed)
4697 o4x4 4x4 Ordered 4x4 (dispersed)
4698 o8x8 8x8 Ordered 8x8 (dispersed)
4699 h4x4a 4x1 Halftone 4x4 (angled)
4700 h6x6a 6x1 Halftone 6x6 (angled)
4701 h8x8a 8x1 Halftone 8x8 (angled)
4702 h4x4o Halftone 4x4 (orthogonal)
4703 h6x6o Halftone 6x6 (orthogonal)
4704 h8x8o Halftone 8x8 (orthogonal)
4705 h16x16o Halftone 16x16 (orthogonal)
4706 c5x5b c5x5 Circles 5x5 (black)
4707 c5x5w Circles 5x5 (white)
4708 c6x6b c6x6 Circles 6x6 (black)
4709 c6x6w Circles 6x6 (white)
4710 c7x7b c7x7 Circles 7x7 (black)
4711 c7x7w Circles 7x7 (white)
4714 <p> The <kbd>threshold</kbd> generated a simple 50% threshold of the image.
4715 This could be used with <em class="arg" >level</em> to do the equivalent of <a
4716 href="#posterize" >-posterize</a> to reduce an image to basic primary colors.
4719 <p>The <kbd>checks</kbd> pattern produces a 3 level checkerboard dither
4720 pattern. That is a grayscale will become a pattern of solid black, solid
4721 white, and mid-tone colors into a checkerboard pattern of black and white.
4724 <p>You can define your own <em class="arg" >threshold map</em> for ordered
4725 dithering and halftoning your images, in either personal or system
4726 <kbd>thresholds.xml</kbd> XML file. See <a href="resources.html" >Resources</A>
4727 for more details of configuration files. </p>
4729 <p>To print a complete list of the thresholds that have been defined, use the
4730 <a href="#list" >-list threshold</a> option.</p>
4732 <p>Note that at this time the same threshold dithering map is used for all
4733 color channels, no attempt is made to offset or rotate the map for different
4734 channels is made, to create an offset printing effect. Also as the maps are
4735 simple threshold levels, the halftone and circle maps will create incomplete
4736 circles along the edges of a colored area. Also all the effects are purely
4737 on/off boolean effects, without anti-aliasing to make the circles smooth
4738 looking. Large dots can be made to look better with a small amount of blurring
4739 after being created. </p>
4742 <div style="margin: auto;">
4743 <h4><a id="opaque"></a>-opaque <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
4746 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>change this color to the fill color within the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4748 <p>The <em class="arg">color</em> argument is defined using the format
4749 described under the <a href="#fill" >-fill</a> option. The <a href="#fuzz"
4750 >-fuzz</a> setting can be used to match and replace colors similar to the one
4753 <p>Use <a href="#opaque">+opaque</a> to paint any pixel that does not match
4754 the target color. </p>
4756 <p>The <a href="#transparent">-transparent</a> operator is exactly the same
4757 as <a href="#opaque" >-opaque</a> but replaces the matching color with
4758 transparency rather than the current <a href="#fill">-fill</a> color setting.
4759 To ensure that it can do this it also ensures that the image has an alpha
4760 channel enabled, as per "<kbd><a href="#alpha" >-alpha</a> set</kbd>", for
4761 the new transparent colors, and does not require you to modify the <a
4762 href="#channel">-channel</a> to enable alpha channel handling. </p>
4765 <div style="margin: auto;">
4766 <h4><a id="orient"></a>-orient <em class="arg">image orientation</em></h4>
4769 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>specify orientation of a digital camera image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4771 <p>Choose from these orientations:</p>
4785 <p>To print a complete list of orientations, use the <a href="#list" >-list
4786 orientation</a> option.</p>
4789 <div style="margin: auto;">
4790 <h4><a id="page"></a>-page <em class="arg">geometry</em><br/>
4791 -page <em class="arg">media</em>[<em class="arg">offset</em>][{<em class="arg">^!<></em>}]<br/>
4796 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the size and location of an image on the larger virtual canvas.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4798 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
4800 <p>For convenience you can specify the page size using <em class="arg">media</em> (see below). Offsets can then be added as with other <em class="arg">geometry</em> arguments (e.g. <a href="#page">-page</a> <kbd>Letter+43+43</kbd>).</p>
4802 <p>Use <em class="arg">media</em> as shorthand to specify the dimensions (<em class="arg">width</em>x<em class="arg">height</em>) of the <em class="arg">PostScript</em> page in dots per inch or a TEXT page in pixels. The choices for a PostScript page are:</p>
4803 <table id="geometryTable" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="50%" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
4806 <th align="center"><em class="arg">media</em></th>
4807 <th align="center"><em class="arg">width</em></th>
4808 <th align="center"><em class="arg">height</em></th>
4812 <tr><td align="left"> 11x17 </td> <td align="right"> 792</td> <td align="right"> 1224</td> </tr>
4813 <tr><td align="left"> Ledger </td> <td align="right"> 1224</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
4814 <tr><td align="left"> Legal </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 1008</td> </tr>
4815 <tr><td align="left"> Letter </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
4816 <tr><td align="left"> LetterSmall</td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 792</td> </tr>
4817 <tr><td align="left"> ArchE </td> <td align="right"> 2592</td> <td align="right"> 3456</td> </tr>
4818 <tr><td align="left"> ArchD </td> <td align="right"> 1728</td> <td align="right"> 2592</td> </tr>
4819 <tr><td align="left"> ArchC </td> <td align="right"> 1296</td> <td align="right"> 1728</td> </tr>
4820 <tr><td align="left"> ArchB </td> <td align="right"> 864</td> <td align="right"> 1296</td> </tr>
4821 <tr><td align="left"> ArchA </td> <td align="right"> 648</td> <td align="right"> 864</td> </tr>
4822 <tr><td align="left"> A0 </td> <td align="right"> 2380</td> <td align="right"> 3368</td> </tr>
4823 <tr><td align="left"> A1 </td> <td align="right"> 1684</td> <td align="right"> 2380</td> </tr>
4824 <tr><td align="left"> A2 </td> <td align="right"> 1190</td> <td align="right"> 1684</td> </tr>
4825 <tr><td align="left"> A3 </td> <td align="right"> 842</td> <td align="right"> 1190</td> </tr>
4826 <tr><td align="left"> A4 </td> <td align="right"> 595</td> <td align="right"> 842</td> </tr>
4827 <tr><td align="left"> A4Small </td> <td align="right"> 595</td> <td align="right"> 842</td> </tr>
4828 <tr><td align="left"> A5 </td> <td align="right"> 421</td> <td align="right"> 595</td> </tr>
4829 <tr><td align="left"> A6 </td> <td align="right"> 297</td> <td align="right"> 421</td> </tr>
4830 <tr><td align="left"> A7 </td> <td align="right"> 210</td> <td align="right"> 297</td> </tr>
4831 <tr><td align="left"> A8 </td> <td align="right"> 148</td> <td align="right"> 210</td> </tr>
4832 <tr><td align="left"> A9 </td> <td align="right"> 105</td> <td align="right"> 148</td> </tr>
4833 <tr><td align="left"> A10 </td> <td align="right"> 74</td> <td align="right"> 105</td> </tr>
4834 <tr><td align="left"> B0 </td> <td align="right"> 2836</td> <td align="right"> 4008</td> </tr>
4835 <tr><td align="left"> B1 </td> <td align="right"> 2004</td> <td align="right"> 2836</td> </tr>
4836 <tr><td align="left"> B2 </td> <td align="right"> 1418</td> <td align="right"> 2004</td> </tr>
4837 <tr><td align="left"> B3 </td> <td align="right"> 1002</td> <td align="right"> 1418</td> </tr>
4838 <tr><td align="left"> B4 </td> <td align="right"> 709</td> <td align="right"> 1002</td> </tr>
4839 <tr><td align="left"> B5 </td> <td align="right"> 501</td> <td align="right"> 709</td> </tr>
4840 <tr><td align="left"> C0 </td> <td align="right"> 2600</td> <td align="right"> 3677</td> </tr>
4841 <tr><td align="left"> C1 </td> <td align="right"> 1837</td> <td align="right"> 2600</td> </tr>
4842 <tr><td align="left"> C2 </td> <td align="right"> 1298</td> <td align="right"> 1837</td> </tr>
4843 <tr><td align="left"> C3 </td> <td align="right"> 918</td> <td align="right"> 1298</td> </tr>
4844 <tr><td align="left"> C4 </td> <td align="right"> 649</td> <td align="right"> 918</td> </tr>
4845 <tr><td align="left"> C5 </td> <td align="right"> 459</td> <td align="right"> 649</td> </tr>
4846 <tr><td align="left"> C6 </td> <td align="right"> 323</td> <td align="right"> 459</td> </tr>
4847 <tr><td align="left"> Flsa </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 936</td> </tr>
4848 <tr><td align="left"> Flse </td> <td align="right"> 612</td> <td align="right"> 936</td> </tr>
4849 <tr><td align="left"> HalfLetter </td> <td align="right"> 396</td> <td align="right"> 612</td> </tr>
4856 <p>This option is also used to place subimages when writing to a multi-image format that supports offsets, such as GIF89 and MNG. When used for this purpose the offsets are always measured from the top left corner of the canvas and are not affected by the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option. To position a GIF or MNG image, use <a href="#page">-page</a><em class="arg">{+-}x{+-}y</em> (e.g. -page +100+200). When writing to a MNG file, a <a href="#page">-page</a> option appearing ahead of the first image in the sequence with nonzero width and height defines the width and height values that are written in the <kbd>MHDR</kbd> chunk. Otherwise, the MNG width and height are computed from the bounding box that contains all images in the sequence. When writing a GIF89 file, only the bounding box method is used to determine its dimensions.</p>
4858 <p>For a PostScript page, the image is sized as in <a href="#geometry">-geometry</a> but positioned relative to the <em>lower left-hand corner</em> of the page by {+-}<kbd>x</kbd><em class="arg">offset</em>{+-}<kbd>y</kbd> <em class="arg">offset</em>. Use <a href="#page">-page 612x792</a>, for example, to center the image within the page. If the image size exceeds the PostScript page, it is reduced to fit the page. The default gravity for the <a href="#page">-page</a> option is <em class="arg">NorthWest</em>, i.e., positive <kbd>x</kbd> and <kbd>y</kbd> <em class="arg">offset</em> are measured rightward and downward from the top left corner of the page, unless the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option is present with a value other than <em class="arg">NorthWest</em>.</p>
4860 <p>The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is 612x792.</p>
4862 <p>This option is used in concert with <a href="#density">-density</a>.</p>
4864 <p>Use <a href="#page">+page</a> to remove the page settings for an image.</p>
4866 <div style="margin: auto;">
4867 <h4><a id="paint"></a>-paint <em class="arg">radius</em></h4>
4870 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate an oil painting.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4872 <p>Each pixel is replaced by the most frequent color in a circular neighborhood whose width is specified with <em class="arg">radius</em>.</p>
4874 <div style="margin: auto;">
4875 <h4><a id="path"></a>-path <em class="arg">path</em></h4></div>
4877 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>write images to this path on disk.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4879 <div style="margin: auto;">
4880 <h4><a id="pause_animate_"></a>-pause <em class="arg">seconds</em></h4>
4883 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Pause between animation loops.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>]</td></tr></table>
4885 <p>Pause for the specified number of seconds before repeating the animation.</p>
4887 <div style="margin: auto;">
4888 <h4><a id="pause_import_"></a>-pause <em class="arg">seconds</em></h4>
4891 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Pause between snapshots.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/import.html">import</a>]</td></tr></table>
4893 <p>Pause for the specified number of seconds before taking the next snapshot.</p>
4895 <div style="margin: auto;">
4896 <h4><a id="ping"></a>-ping</h4>
4899 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>efficiently determine image characteristics.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4901 <div style="margin: auto;">
4902 <h4><a id="pointsize"></a>-pointsize <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
4905 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>pointsize of the PostScript, OPTION1, or TrueType font.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4907 <div style="margin: auto;">
4908 <h4><a id="polaroid"></a>-polaroid <em class="arg">angle</em></h4>
4911 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate a Polaroid picture.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4913 <p>Use <kbd>+polaroid</kbd> to rotate the image at a random angle between -15 and +15 degrees.</p>
4915 <div style="margin: auto;">
4916 <h4><a id="posterize"></a>-posterize <em class="arg">levels</em></h4>
4919 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>reduce the image to a limited number of color levels.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4921 <div style="margin: auto;">
4922 <h4><a id="precision"></a>-precision <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
4925 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set the maximum number of significant digits to be printed.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4927 <div style="margin: auto;">
4928 <h4><a id="preview"></a>-preview <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
4931 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>image preview type.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4933 <p>Use this option to affect the preview operation of an image (e.g. <kbd>convert file.png -preview Gamma Preview:gamma.png</kbd>). Choose from these previews:</p>
4936 Rotate Shear Roll Hue
4937 Saturation Brightness Gamma Spiff
4938 Dull Grayscale Quantize Despeckle
4939 ReduceNoise Add Noise Sharpen Blur
4940 Threshold EdgeDetect Spread Shade
4941 Raise Segment Solarize Swirl
4942 Implode Wave OilPaint CharcoalDrawing
4946 <p>To print a complete list of previews, use the <a href="#list">-list preview</a> option.</p>
4948 <p>The default preview is <kbd>JPEG</kbd>.</p>
4950 <div style="margin: auto;">
4951 <h4><a id="print"></a>-print <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
4954 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>interpret string and print to console.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4956 <div style="margin: auto;">
4957 <h4><a id="process"></a>-process <em class="arg">command</em></h4>
4960 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>process the image with a custom image filter.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4962 <p>The command arguments has the form <kbd>"module arg1 arg2 arg3 ... argN"</kbd> where <kbd>module</kbd> is the name of the module to invoke (e.g. "Analyze") and arg1 arg2 arg3 ... argN are an arbitrary number of arguments to pass to the process module.</p>
4964 <div style="margin: auto;">
4965 <h4><a id="profile"></a>-profile <em class="arg">filename</em><br/>
4966 +profile <em class="arg">profile_name</em></h4>
4969 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Manage ICM, IPTC, or generic profiles in an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4971 <p>Using <a href="#profile">-profile</a> <em class="arg">filename</em> adds an ICM (ICC color management), IPTC (newswire information), or a generic profile to the image.</p>
4973 <p>Use <a href="#profile">+profile <em class="arg">profile_name</em></a> to remove the indicated profile. ImageMagick uses standard filename globbing, so wildcard expressions may be used to remove more than one profile. Here we remove all profiles from the image except for the XMP profile: <kbd>+profile "!xmp,*"</kbd>. </p>
4975 <p>Use <kbd>identify -verbose</kbd> to find out which profiles are in the image file. Use <a href="#strip">-strip</a> to remove all profiles (and comments).</p>
4977 <p>To extract a profile, the <a href="#profile">-profile</a> option is not used. Instead, simply write the file to an image format such as <em class="arg">APP1, 8BIM, ICM,</em> or <em class="arg">IPTC</em>.</p>
4979 <p>For example, to extract the Exif data (which is stored in JPEG files in the <em class="arg">APP1</em> profile), use.</p>
4981 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert cockatoo.jpg profile.exif</span></p>
4982 <p>It is important to note that results may depend on whether or not the original image already has an included profile. Also, keep in mind that <a href="#profile">-profile</a> is an "operator" (as opposed to a "setting") and therefore a conversion is made each time it is encountered, in order, in the command-line. For instance, in the following example, if the original image is CMYK with profile, a CMYK-CMYK-RGB conversion results.</p>
4984 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert CMYK.tif -profile "CMYK.icc" -profile "RGB.icc" RGB.tiff</span></p>
4985 <p>Furthermore, since ICC profiles are not necessarily symmetric, extra conversion steps can yield unwanted results.
4986 CMYK profiles are often very asymmetric since they involve 3−>4 and 4−>3 channel mapping.
4989 <div style="margin: auto;">
4990 <h4><a id="quality"></a>-quality <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
4993 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
4995 <p>For the JPEG and MPEG image formats, quality is 1 (lowest image quality and
4996 highest compression) to 100 (best quality but least effective compression).
4997 The default is to use the estimated quality of your input image if it can
4998 be determined, otherwise 92. When the quality is greater than 90, then the
4999 chroma channels are not downsampled.
5000 Use the <a href="#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> option to specify the
5001 factors for chroma downsampling.</p>
5003 <p>For the MIFF image format, quality/10 is the zlib compression level, which is 0 (worst but fastest compression) to 9 (best but slowest). It has no effect on the image appearance, since the compression is always lossless.</p>
5005 <p>For the JPEG-2000 image format, quality is mapped using a non-linear equation to the compression ratio required by the Jasper library. This non-linear equation is intended to loosely approximate the quality provided by the JPEG v1 format. The default quality value 100, a request for non-lossy compression. A quality of 75 results in a request for 16:1 compression.</p>
5007 <p>For the MNG and PNG image formats, the quality value sets the zlib
5008 compression level (quality / 10) and filter-type (quality % 10). The default
5009 PNG "quality" is 75, which means compression level 7 with adaptive PNG
5010 filtering, unless the image has a color map, in which case it means
5011 compression level 7 with no PNG filtering.</p>
5013 <p>For compression level 0, the Huffman-only strategy is used, which is fastest but not necessarily the worst compression.</p>
5015 <p>If filter-type is 4 or less, the specified PNG filter-type is used for
5026 <p>If filter-type is 5, adaptive filtering is used when quality is greater
5027 than 50 and the image does not have a color map, otherwise no filtering is
5030 <p>If filter-type is 6, adaptive filtering
5031 with <em class="arg">minimum-sum-of-absolute-values</em> is used.</p>
5033 <p>Only if the output is MNG, if filter-type is 7, the LOCO color
5034 transformation (intrapixel differencing) and adaptive filtering
5035 with <em class="arg">minimum-sum-of-absolute-values</em> are used.</p>
5037 <p>If the filter-type is 8 the zlib Z_RLE compression strategy is used with
5038 no PNG filtering.</p>
5040 <p>If the filter-type is 9 the zlib Z_RLE compression strategy is used with
5041 adaptive PNG filtering.</p>
5043 <p>The quality setting has no effect on the appearance or signature of PNG
5044 and MNG images, since the compression is always lossless.</p>
5046 <p>Not all combinations of compression level, strategy, and PNG filter type
5047 can be obtained using the -quality option. For more precise control,
5048 you can use the PNG:compression-level=N, PNG:compression-strategy=N, and
5049 PNG:compression-filter=N defines, respectively, instead.
5050 See <a href="#define">-define</a>. Values from the defines take precedence
5051 over values from the -quality option.</p>
5053 <p>For further information, see
5054 the <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR">PNG</a> specification.</p>
5056 <div style="margin: auto;">
5057 <h4><a id="quantize"></a>-quantize <em class="arg">colorspace</em></h4>
5060 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>reduce colors using this colorspace.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5062 <p>This setting defines the colorspace used to sort out and reduce the number
5063 of colors needed by an image (for later dithering) by operators such as <a
5064 href="#colors" >-colors</a>, Note that color reduction also happens
5065 automatically when saving images to color-limited image file formats, such as
5069 <div style="margin: auto;">
5070 <h4><a id="quiet"></a>-quiet</h4>
5073 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>suppress all warning messages. Error messages are still reported.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5075 <div style="margin: auto;">
5076 <h4><a id="radial-blur"></a>-radial-blur <em class="arg">angle</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
5079 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Blur around the center of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5081 <p>Note that this is actually a rotational blur rather than a radial and as
5082 such actually mis-named. </p>
5084 <p>The <a href="#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel</a> setting will determine how
5085 pixels which are outside the image proper are blurred into the final result.
5089 <div style="margin: auto;">
5090 <h4><a id="raise"></a>-raise <em class="arg">thickness</em></h4>
5093 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Lighten or darken image edges.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5095 <p>This will create a 3-D effect. Use <a href="#raise">-raise</a> to create a raised effect, otherwise use <a href="#raise">+raise</a>.
5098 <p>Unlike the similar <a href="#frame">-frame</a> option, <a href="#raise">-raise</a> does not alter the dimensions of the image.</p>
5100 <div style="margin: auto;">
5101 <h4><a id="random-threshold"></a>-random-threshold <em class="arg">low</em>x<em class="arg">high</em></h4>
5104 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply a random threshold to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5106 <div style="margin: auto;">
5107 <h4><a id="red-primary"></a>-red-primary <em class="arg">x,y</em></h4>
5110 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the red chromaticity primary point.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5112 <div style="margin: auto;">
5113 <h4><a id="regard-warnings"></a>-regard-warnings</h4>
5116 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Pay attention to warning messages.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5118 <div style="margin: auto;">
5119 <h4><a id="remap"></a>-remap <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
5122 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Reduce the number of colors in an image to the colors used by this image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5124 <p>If the <a href="#dither">-dither</a> setting is enabled (the default) then
5125 the given colors are dithered over the image as necessary, otherwise the closest
5126 color (in RGB colorspace) is selected to replace that pixel in the image. </p>
5128 <p>As a side effect of applying a <a href="#remap">-remap</a> of colors across all
5129 images in the current image sequence, all the images will have the same color
5130 table. That means that when saved to a file format such as GIF, it will use
5131 that color table as a single common or global color table, for all the images,
5132 without requiring extra local color tables. </p>
5134 <p>Use <a href="#remap">+remap</a> to reduce all images in the current image
5135 sequence to use a common color map over all the images. This equivalent to
5136 appending all the images together (without extra background colors) and color
5137 reducing those images using <a href="#colors">-colors</a> with a 256 color
5138 limit, then <a href="#remap">-remap</a> those colors over the original list of
5139 images. This ensures all the images follow a single color map. </p>
5141 <p>If the number of colors over all the images is less than 256, then <a
5142 href="#remap">+remap</a> should not perform any color reduction or dithering, as
5143 no color changes are needed. In that case, its only effect is to force the use
5144 of a global color table. This recommended after using either <a
5145 href="#colors">-colors</a> or <a href="#ordered-dither">-ordered-dither</a> to
5146 reduce the number of colors in an animated image sequence. </p>
5148 <div style="margin: auto;">
5149 <h4><a id="region"></a>-region <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5152 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set a region in which subsequent operations apply.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5154 <p>The <em class="arg">x</em> and <em class="arg">y</em> offsets are treated in the same manner as in <a href="#crop">-crop</a>.</p>
5156 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5158 <div style="margin: auto;">
5159 <h4><a id="remote"></a>-remote</h4>
5162 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>perform a remote operation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5164 <p>The only command recognized is the name of an image file to load.</p>
5166 <p>If you have more than one <a href="../www/display.html">display</a> application running simultaneously, use the <a href="#window"> window</a> option to specify which application to control.</p>
5168 <div style="margin: auto;">
5169 <h4><a id="render"></a>-render</h4>
5172 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>render vector operations.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5174 <p>Use <a href="#render">+render</a> to turn off rendering vector operations. This useful when saving the result to vector formats such as MVG or SVG.</p>
5176 <div style="margin: auto;">
5177 <h4><a id="repage"></a>-repage <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5180 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Adjust the canvas and offset information of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5182 <p>This option is like <a href="#page">-page</a> but acts as an image operator
5183 rather than a setting. You can separately set the canvas size or the offset
5184 of the image on that canvas by only providing those components. </p>
5186 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5188 <p>If a <kbd>!</kbd> flag is given the offset given is added to the existing
5189 offset to move the image relative to its previous position. This useful for
5190 animation sequences. </p>
5192 <p>A given a canvas size of zero such as '<kbd>0x0</kbd>' forces it to
5193 recalculate the canvas size so the image (at its current offset) will appear
5194 completely on that canvas (unless it has a negative offset).</p>
5196 <p>Use <a href="#repage">+repage</a> to completely remove/reset the virtual
5197 canvas meta-data from the images. </p>
5199 <p>The <a href="#set">-set</a> '<kbd>page</kbd>' option can be used to
5200 directly assign virtual canvas meta-data. </p>
5203 <div style="margin: auto;">
5204 <h4><a id="resample"></a>-resample <em class="arg">horizontal</em>x<em class="arg">vertical</em></h4>
5207 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Resample image to specified horizontal and vertical resolution.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5209 <p>Resize the image so that its rendered size remains the same as the original at the specified target resolution. For example, if a 300 DPI image renders at 3 inches by 2 inches on a 300 DPI device, when the image has been resampled to 72 DPI, it will render at 3 inches by 2 inches on a 72 DPI device. Note that only a small number of image formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, and TIFF) are capable of storing the image resolution. For formats which do not support an image resolution, the original resolution of the image must be specified via <a href="#density">-density</a> on the command line prior to specifying the resample resolution.</p>
5211 <p>Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image resolution from a proprietary embedded profile. If this profile exists in the image, then Photoshop will continue to treat the image using its former resolution, ignoring the image resolution specified in the standard file header.</p>
5213 <div style="margin: auto;">
5214 <h4><a id="resize"></a>-resize <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5217 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Resize an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5219 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are ignored, and the <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> option has no effect.</p>
5221 <p>If the <a href="#filter">-filter</a> option precedes the <a href="#resize">-resize</a> option, the image is resized with the specified filter.</p>
5223 <p>Many image processing algorithms assume your image is in a linear-light coding. If your image is gamma-corrected, you can remove the nonlinear gamma correction, apply the transform, then restore it like this:</p>
5225 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert portrait.jpg -gamma .45455 -resize 25% -gamma 2.2 \ <br/> -quality 92 passport.jpg</span></p>
5226 <div style="margin: auto;">
5227 <h4><a id="respect-parentheses"></a>-respect-parentheses</h4>
5230 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5232 <div style="margin: auto;">
5233 <h4><a id="reverse"></a>-reverse</h4>
5236 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Reverse the order of images in the current image list.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5239 <div style="margin: auto;">
5240 <h4><a id="roll"></a>-roll {<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em></h4>
5243 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>roll an image vertically or horizontally by the amount given.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5245 <p>A negative <em class="arg">x</em> offset rolls the image left-to-right. A negative <em class="arg">y</em> offset rolls the image top-to-bottom.</p>
5248 <div style="margin: auto;">
5249 <h4><a id="rotate"></a>-rotate <em class="arg">degrees</em>{<em class="arg"><</em>}{<em class="arg">></em>}</h4>
5252 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply Paeth image rotation (using shear operations) to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5254 <p>Use <kbd>></kbd> to rotate the image only if its width exceeds the height. <kbd><</kbd> rotates the image <em>only</em> if its width is less than the height. For example, if you specify <kbd>-rotate "-90>"</kbd> and the image size is 480x640, the image is not rotated. However, if the image is 640x480, it is rotated by -90 degrees. If you use <kbd>></kbd> or <kbd><</kbd>, enclose it in quotation marks to prevent it from being misinterpreted as a file redirection.</p>
5256 <p>Empty triangles in the corners, left over from rotating the image, are
5257 filled with the <kbd>background</kbd> color. </p>
5259 <p>See also the <a href="#distort">-distort</a> operator and specifically the
5260 '<kbd>ScaleRotateTranslate</kbd>' distort method. </p>
5263 <div style="margin: auto;">
5264 <h4><a id="sample"></a>-sample <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5267 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>minify/magnify the image using pixel subsampling and pixel replication, respectively.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5269 <p>Change the image size simply by directly sampling the pixels original
5270 image. When magnifying, pixels are replicated in blocks. When minifying,
5271 pixels are sub-sampled (i.e., some rows and columns are skipped over). </p>
5273 <p>The results are thus equivalent to using <a href="#resize">-resize</a> with
5274 a <a href="#filter">-filter</a> setting of <kbd>point</kbd> (nearest
5275 neighbour), though <a href="#sample">-sample</a> is a lot faster, as it
5276 avoids all the filter processing of the image. As such it completely ignores
5277 the current <a href="#filter">-filter</a> setting. </p>
5279 <p>The key feature of the <a href="#sample">-sample</a> is that no new colors
5280 will be added to the resulting image, though some colors may disappear. </p>
5282 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are
5283 ignored, unlike <a href="#resize">-resize</a>. </p>
5286 <div style="margin: auto;">
5287 <h4><a id="sampling-factor"></a>-sampling-factor <em class="arg">horizontal-factor</em>x<em class="arg">vertical-factor</em></h4>
5290 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>sampling factors used by JPEG or MPEG-2 encoder and YUV decoder/encoder.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5292 <p>This option specifies the sampling factors to be used by the JPEG encoder for chroma downsampling. If this option is omitted, the JPEG library will use its own default values. When reading or writing the YUV format and when writing the M2V (MPEG-2) format, use <a href="#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor 2x1</a> or <a href="#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor 4:2:2</a> to specify the 4:2:2 downsampling method.</p>
5294 <div style="margin: auto;">
5295 <h4><a id="scale"></a>-scale <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5298 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>minify/magnify the image using pixel block averaging and pixel replication, respectively.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5300 <p>Change the image size simply by replacing pixels by averaging pixels
5301 together when minifying, or replacing pixels when magnifying. </p>
5303 <p>The results are thus equivalent to using <a href="#resize">-resize</a> with
5304 a <a href="#filter">-filter</a> setting of <kbd>box</kbd>. Though it is a lot
5305 faster, as it avoids all the filter processing of the image. As such it
5306 completely ignores the current <a href="#filter">-filter</a> setting. </p>
5308 <p>If when shrinking (minifying) images the original image is some integer
5309 multiple of the new image size, the number of pixels averaged together to
5310 produce the new pixel color is the same across the whole image. This is
5311 a special case known as 'binning' and is often used as a method of reducing
5312 noise in image such as those generated by digital cameras, especially in low
5313 light conditions. </p>
5316 <div style="margin: auto;">
5317 <h4><a id="scene"></a>-scene <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
5320 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set scene number.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5322 <p>This option sets the scene number of an image or the first image in an image sequence.</p>
5324 <div style="margin: auto;">
5325 <h4><a id="screen"></a>-screen</h4>
5328 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>specify the screen to capture.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5330 <p>This option indicates that the GetImage request used to obtain the image should be done on the root window, rather than directly on the specified window. In this way, you can obtain pieces of other windows that overlap the specified window, and more importantly, you can capture menus or other popups that are independent windows but appear over the specified window.</p>
5332 <div style="margin: auto;">
5333 <h4><a id="seed"></a>-seed</h4>
5336 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5338 <div style="margin: auto;">
5339 <h4><a id="segment"></a>-segment <em class="arg">cluster-threshold</em>x<em class="arg">smoothing-threshold</em></h4>
5342 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>segment the colors of an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5344 <p>Segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique. This is part of the ImageMagick color quantization routines. </p>
5346 <p>Specify <em class="arg">cluster threshold</em> as the number of pixels in each cluster that must exceed the cluster threshold to be considered valid. <em class="arg">Smoothing threshold</em> eliminates noise in the second derivative of the histogram. As the value is increased, you can expect a smoother second derivative. The default is 1.5.</p>
5348 <p>If the <a href="#verbose">-verbose</a> setting is defined, a detailed report
5349 of the color clusters is returned.</p>
5352 <div style="margin: auto;">
5353 <h4><a id="selective-blur"></a>-selective-blur <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-selective-blur <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>{+<em class="arg">+threshold</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em>}</h4>
5356 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Selectively blur pixels within a contrast threshold.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5358 <p>Blurs those pixels that are less than or equal to the threshold in contrast. The threshold may be expressed as a fraction of <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em> or as a percentage.</p>
5360 <div style="margin: auto;">
5361 <h4><a id="separate"></a>-separate</h4>
5364 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>separate an image channel into a grayscale image. Specify the channel with <a href="#channel">-channel</a>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5366 <div style="margin: auto;">
5367 <h4><a id="sepia-tone"></a>-sepia-tone <em class="arg">threshold</em></h4>
5370 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate a sepia-toned photo.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5372 <p>Specify <em class="arg">threshold</em> as the percent threshold of the intensity (0 - 99.9%).</p>
5374 <p>This option applies a special effect to the image, similar to the effect achieved in a photo darkroom by sepia toning. Threshold ranges from 0 to <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em> and is a measure of the extent of the sepia toning. A threshold of 80% is a good starting point for a reasonable tone.</p>
5378 <div style="margin: auto;">
5379 <h4><a id="set"></a>-set <em class="arg">key value</em></h4>
5380 <h4>+set <em class="arg">key</em></h4>
5383 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>sets image attributes and properties for images in the current
5384 image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5386 <p>This will assign (or modify) specific settings attached to all the images
5387 in the current image sequence. Using the <a href="#set">+set</a> form of the
5388 option will either remove, or reset that setting to a default state, as
5391 <p>For example, it will modify specific well known image meta-data
5392 'attributes' such as those normally overridden by: the options <a
5393 href="#delay" >-delay</a>, <a href="#dispose" >-dispose</a>, and <a
5394 href="#page" >-page</a>, <a href="#colorspace" >-colorspace</a>; generally
5395 assigned before the image is read in, by using a <em class="arg">key</em> of
5398 <p>If the given <em class="arg">key</em> does not match a specific known
5399 'attribute ', such as shown above, the setting is stored as a a free form
5400 'property' string. Such settings are listed in <a href="#verbose"
5401 >-verbose</a> information ("<kbd>info:</kbd>" output format) as "Properties".
5404 <p>This includes string 'properties' that are set by and assigned to images
5405 using the options <a href="#comment" >-comment</a>, <a href="#label"
5406 >-label</a>, <a href="#caption" >-caption</a>. These options actually assign
5407 a global 'artifact' which are automatically assigned (and any <a href="../www/escape.html" >Format Percent
5408 Escapes</a> expanded) to images as they are read in. For example:</p>
5410 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -set comment 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' rose.png</span><span class='crtout'>identify -format %c rose.png</span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose</span></p>
5411 <p>The set value can also make use of <a href="../www/escape.html" >Format and Print Image
5412 Properties</a> in the defined value. For example:</p>
5414 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -set origsize '%wx%h' -resize 50% \</span><span class='crtout'> -format 'Old size = %[origsize] New size = %wx%h' info:</span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>Old size = 70x46 New size = 35x23</span></p>
5415 <p>Other well known 'properties' that are availible include:
5416 '<kbd>date:create</kbd>' and '<kbd>date:modify</kbd>' and
5417 '<kbd>signature</kbd>'. </p>
5419 <p>The <a href="#repage">-repage</a> operator will also allow you to modify
5420 the '<kbd>page</kbd>' attribute of an image for images already in memory (also
5421 see <a href="#repage">-page</a>). However it is designed to provide a finer
5422 control of the sub-parts of this 'attribute'. The <a href="#set">-set page</a>
5423 option will only provide a direct, unmodified assignment of '<kbd>page</kbd>'
5426 <p>This option can also associate a colorspace or profile with your image.
5429 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert image.psd -set profile ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc image-icc.psd</span></p>
5430 <p>Some 'properties' must be defined in a specific way to be used. For
5431 example only 'properties' prefixed with "<kbd>filename:</kbd>" can be used to
5432 modify the output filename of an image. For example</p>
5434 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -set filename:mysize '%wx%h' 'rose_%[filename:mysize].png'</span></p>
5435 <p>If the setting value is prefixed with "<kbd>option:</kbd>" the setting will
5436 be saved as a global "Artifact" exactly as if it was set using the <a
5437 href="#define" >-define</a> option. As such settings are global in scope, they
5438 can be used to pass 'attributes' and 'properties' of one specific image,
5439 in a way that allows you to use them in a completely different image, even if
5440 the original image has long since been modified or destroyed. For example: </p>
5442 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose: -set option:rosesize '%wx%h' -delete 0 \</span><span class='crtout'> label:'%[rosesize]' label_size_of_rose.gif</span></p>
5443 <p>Note that <a href="../www/escape.html" >Format Percent Escapes</a> will only match
5444 a 'artifact' if the given <em class="arg">key</em> does not match an existing
5445 'attribute' or 'property'. </p>
5447 <p>You can set the attributes of the image registry by prefixing the value
5448 with <kbd>registry:</kbd>.</p>
5450 <p>The <a href="#set">-set profile</a> option can also be used to inject
5451 previously-formatted ancillary chunks into the output PNG file, using
5452 the commandline option as shown below or by setting the profile via a
5453 programming interface:</p>
5455 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert in.png -set profile PNG-chunk-x:<filename> out.png</span></p>
5456 <p>where <em>x</em> is a location flag and
5457 <em class="arg">filename</em> is a file containing the chunk
5458 name in the first 4 bytes, then a colon (":"), followed by the chunk data.
5459 This encoder will compute the chunk length and CRC, so those must not
5460 be included in the file.</p>
5462 <p>"x" can be "b" (before PLTE), "m" (middle, i.e., between PLTE and IDAT),
5463 or "e" (end, i.e., after IDAT). If you want to write multiple chunks
5464 of the same type, then add a short unique string after the "x" to prevent
5465 subsequent profiles from overwriting the preceding ones, e.g.,</p>
5468 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert in.png -set profile PNG-chunk-b01:file01 / <br/>
5469 -profile PNG-chunk-b02:file02 out.png</span></p>
5473 <div style="margin: auto;">
5474 <h4><a id="shade"></a>-shade <em class="arg">azimuth</em>x<em class="arg">elevation</em></h4>
5477 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>shade the image using a distant light source.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5479 <p>Specify <em class="arg">azimuth</em> and <em class="arg">elevation</em> as the position of the light source. Use <a href="#shade">+shade</a> to return the shading results as a grayscale image.</p>
5481 <div style="margin: auto;">
5482 <h4><a id="shadow"></a>-shadow <em class="arg">percent-opacity</em>{x<em class="arg">sigma</em>}{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
5485 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate an image shadow.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5487 <div style="margin: auto;">
5489 id="shared-memory"></a>-shared-memory</h4>
5492 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>use shared memory.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5494 <p>This option specifies whether the utility should attempt to use shared memory for pixmaps. ImageMagick must be compiled with shared memory support, and the display must support the <em class="arg">MIT-SHM</em> extension. Otherwise, this option is ignored. The default is <kbd>True</kbd>.</p>
5496 <div style="margin: auto;">
5497 <h4><a id="sharpen"></a>-sharpen <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-sharpen <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
5500 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>sharpen the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5502 <p>Use a Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).</p>
5504 <div style="margin: auto;">
5505 <h4><a id="shave"></a>-shave <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5508 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Shave pixels from the image edges.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5510 <p>The <em class="arg">size</em> portion of the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument specifies the width of the region to be removed from both sides of the image and the height of the regions to be removed from top and bottom. Offsets are ignored.</p>
5512 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5514 <div style="margin: auto;">
5515 <h4><a id="shear"></a>-shear <em class="arg">Xdegrees</em>[x<em class="arg">Ydegrees</em>]</h4>
5518 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Shear the image along the x-axis and/or y-axis.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5520 <p>The shear angles may be positive, negative, or zero. When <em class="arg">Ydegrees</em> is omitted it defaults to 0. When both angles are given, the horizontal component of the shear is performed before the vertical component.</p>
5522 <p>Shearing slides one edge of an image along the x-axis or y-axis (i.e., horizontally or vertically, respectively),creating a parallelogram. The amount of each is controlled by the respective shear angle. For horizontal shears, <em class="arg">Xdegrees</em> is measured clockwise relative to "up" (the negative y-axis), sliding the top edge to the right when 0°<<em class="arg">Xdegrees</em><90° and to the left when 90°<<em class="arg">Xdegrees</em><180°. For vertical shears <em class="arg">Ydegrees</em> is measured clockwise relative to "right" (the positive x-axis), sliding the right edge down when 0°<<em class="arg">Ydegrees</em><90° and up when 90°<<em class="arg">Ydegrees</em><180°.</p>
5524 <p>Empty triangles left over from shearing the image are filled with the color defined by the <a href="#fill">-background</a> option. The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
5526 <p>The horizontal shear is performed before the vertical part. This is important to note, since horizontal and vertical shears do not <em>commute</em>, i.e., the order matters in a sequence of shears. For example, the following two commands are not equivalent.</p>
5528 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -shear 20x0 -shear 0x60 logo-sheared.png</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -shear 0x60 -shear 20x0 logo-sheared.png</span></p>
5529 <p>The first of the two commands above is equivalent to the following, except for the amount of empty space created; the command that follows generates a smaller image, and so is a better choice in terms of time and space.</p>
5531 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert logo: -shear 20x60 logo-sheared.png</span></p>
5532 <div style="margin: auto;">
5533 <h4><a id="sigmoidal-contrast"></a>-sigmoidal-contrast <em class="arg">contrast</em>x<em class="arg">mid-point</em></h4>
5536 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>increase the contrast without saturating highlights or shadows.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5538 <p>Increase the contrast of the image using a sigmoidal transfer function without saturating highlights or shadows. <em class="arg">Contrast</em> indicates how much to increase the contrast (0 is none; 3 is typical; 20 is a lot); <em class="arg">mid-point</em> indicates where midtones fall in the resultant image (0 is white; 50% is middle-gray; 100% is black). By default the image contrast is increased, use <em class="arg">+sigmoidal-contrast</em> to decrease the contrast.</p>
5540 <div style="margin: auto;">
5541 <h4><a id="silent"></a>-silent</h4>
5544 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>operate silently.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5546 <div style="margin: auto;">
5547 <h4><a id="size"></a>-size <em class="arg">width</em>[x<em class="arg">height</em>][<em class="arg">+offset</em>]</h4>
5550 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set the width and height of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5552 <p>Use this option to specify the width and height of raw images whose dimensions are unknown such as <kbd>GRAY</kbd>, <kbd>RGB</kbd>, or <kbd>CMYK</kbd>. In addition to width and height, use <a href="#size">-size</a> with an offset to skip any header information in the image or tell the number of colors in a <kbd>MAP</kbd> image file, (e.g. -size 640x512+256).</p>
5554 <p>For Photo CD images, choose from these sizes:</p>
5564 <div style="margin: auto;">
5565 <h4><a id="sketch"></a>-sketch <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-sketch <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>+<em class="arg">angle</em>+<em class="arg">bias</em></h4>
5568 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>simulate a pencil sketch.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5570 <p>Sketch with the given radius, standard deviation (sigma), and angle. The angle given is the angle toward which the image is sketched. That is the direction people would consider the object is coming from. </p>
5572 <div style="margin: auto;">
5573 <h4><a id="smush"></a>-smush <em class="arg">offset</em></h4>
5576 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>smush an image sequence together.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5578 <div style="margin: auto;">
5579 <h4><a id="snaps"></a>-snaps <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
5582 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the number of screen snapshots.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/import.html">import</a>]</td></tr></table>
5584 <p>Use this option to grab more than one image from the X server screen, to create an animation sequence.</p>
5586 <div style="margin: auto;">
5587 <h4><a id="solarize"></a>-solarize <em class="arg">threshold</em></h4>
5590 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>negate all pixels above the threshold level.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5592 <p>Specify <em class="arg">factor</em> as the percent threshold of the intensity (0 - 99.9%).</p>
5594 <p>This option produces a <em class="arg">solarization</em> effect seen when exposing a photographic film to light during the development process.</p>
5596 <div style="margin: auto;">
5597 <h4><a id="sparse-color"></a>-sparse-color <em
5598 class="arg">method</em> '<em class="arg">x</em>,<em class="arg">y</em> <em class="arg">color</em> ...'</h4>
5601 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'> color the given image using the specified points of color, and filling the other intervening colors using the given methods. </td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5607 <th align="left" style="width: 8%">Method</th>
5608 <th align="left">Description</th>
5612 <td valign="top">barycentric</td>
5613 <td valign="top">three point triangle of color given 3 points.
5614 Giving only 2 points will form a linear gradient between those points.
5615 The gradient generated extends beyond the triangle created by those
5620 <td valign="top">bilinear</td>
5621 <td valign="top">Like barycentric but for 4 points. Less than 4 points
5622 fall back to barycentric. </td>
5625 <td valign="top">voronoi</td>
5626 <td valign="top">Simply map each pixel to the to nearest color point
5627 given. The result are polygonal 'cells' of solid color. </td>
5631 <td valign="top">shepards</td>
5632 <td valign="top">Colors points biased on the ratio of inverse distance
5633 squared. Generating spots of color in a sea of the average of
5638 <td valign="top">inverse</td>
5639 <td valign="top">Colors points biased on the ratio of inverse distance.
5640 This generates sharper points of color rather than rounded spots of
5641 '<kbd>shepards</kbd>' Generating spots of color in a sea of the
5642 average of colors. </td>
5648 <p>The points are placed according to the images location on the virtual
5649 canvas (<a href="#page" >-page</a> or <a href="#repage" >-repage</a>
5650 offset), and do not actually have to exist on the given image, but may be
5651 some point beyond the edge of the image. All points are floating point values.
5654 <p>Only the color channels defined by the <a href="#channel" >-channel</a> are
5655 modified, which means that by default matte/alpha transparency channel is not
5656 effected. Typically transparency channel is turned off either before or after
5659 Of course if some color points are transparent to generate a transparent
5660 gradient, then the image also requires transparency enabled to store the
5663 <p>All the above methods when given a single point of color will replace all
5664 the colors in the image with the color given, regardless of the point. This is
5665 logical, and provides an alternative technique to recolor a image to some
5669 <div style="margin: auto;">
5670 <h4><a id="splice"></a>-splice <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5673 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Splice the current background color into the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5675 <p>This will add rows and columns of the current <a
5676 href="#background">-background</a> color into the given image according to the
5677 given <a href="#gravity">-gravity</a> geometry setting. >See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument. Essentially <a href="#splice">-splice</a> will divide the
5678 image into four quadrants, separating them by the inserted rows and columns.
5681 If a dimension of geometry is zero no rows or columns will be added for that
5682 dimension. Similarly using a zero offset with the appropriate <a
5683 href="#gravity">-gravity</a> setting will add rows and columns to the edges of
5684 the image, padding the image only along that one edge. Edge padding is what <a
5685 href="#splice">-splice</a> is most commonly used for. </p>
5687 <p>If the exact same <em class="arg">geometry</em> and <a
5688 href="#gravity">-gravity</a> is later used with <a href="#chop">-chop</a> the
5689 added added all splices removed. </p>
5691 <div style="margin: auto;">
5692 <h4><a id="spread"></a>-spread <em class="arg">amount</em></h4>
5695 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>displace image pixels by a random amount.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5697 <p>The argument <em class="arg">amount</em> defines the size of the neighborhood around each pixel from which to choose a candidate pixel to swap.</p>
5699 <div style="margin: auto;">
5700 <h4><a id="statistic"></a>-statistic <em class="arg">type</em> <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5703 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>replace each pixel with corresponding statistic from the neighborhood.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/convert.html">convert</a>, <a href="../www/mogrify.html">mogrify</a>]</td></tr></table>
5705 <p>Choose from these statistic types:</p>
5707 Gradient maximum difference in area
5708 Maximum maximum value per channel in neighborhood
5709 Minimum minimum value per channel in neighborhood
5710 Mean average value per channel in neighborhood
5711 Median median value per channel in neighborhood
5712 Mode mode (most frequent) value per channel in neighborhood
5713 Nonpeak value just before or after the median value per channel in neighborhood
5716 <div style="margin: auto;">
5717 <h4><a id="stegano"></a>-stegano <em class="arg">offset</em></h4>
5720 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>hide watermark within an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5722 <p>Use an offset to start the image hiding some number of pixels from the beginning of the image. Note this offset and the image size. You will need this information to recover the steganographic image (e.g. display -size 320x256+35 stegano:image.png).</p>
5724 <div style="margin: auto;">
5725 <h4><a id="stereo"></a>-stereo <em class="arg">+x</em>{<em class="arg">+y</em>}</h4>
5728 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>composite two images to create a stereo anaglyph.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
5730 <p>The left side of the stereo pair is saved as the red channel of the output image. The right side is saved as the green channel. Red-green stereo glasses are required to properly view the stereo image.</p>
5732 <div style="margin: auto;">
5733 <h4><a id="storage-type"></a>-storage-type <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
5736 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>pixel storage type. Here are the valid types:</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5739 char unsigned characters
5744 quantum pixels in the native depth of your ImageMagick distribution
5745 short unsigned shorts
5748 <p>Float and double types are normalized from 0.0 to 1.0 otherwise the pixels
5749 values range from 0 to the maximum value the storage type can support.</p>
5751 <div style="margin: auto;">
5752 <h4><a id="stretch"></a>-stretch <em class="arg">fontStretch</em></h4>
5755 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set a type of stretch style for fonts.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5757 <p>This setting suggests a type of stretch that ImageMagick should try to apply to the currently selected font family. Select <em class="arg">fontStretch</em> from the following.</p>
5772 <p>To print a complete list of stretch types, use <a href="#list">-list stretch</a>.</p>
5774 <p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="#font">-font</a>, <a href="#family">-family</a>, <a href="#style">-style</a>, and <a href="#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
5776 <div style="margin: auto;">
5777 <h4><a id="strip"></a>-strip</h4>
5780 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>strip the image of any profiles or comments.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5782 <div style="margin: auto;">
5783 <h4><a id="stroke"></a>-stroke <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
5786 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>color to use when stroking a graphic primitive.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5788 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
5790 <p>See <a href="#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
5792 <div style="margin: auto;">
5793 <h4><a id="strokewidth"></a>-strokewidth <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
5796 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set the stroke width.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5798 <p>See <a href="#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
5800 <div style="margin: auto;">
5801 <h4><a id="style"></a>-style <em class="arg">fontStyle</em></h4>
5804 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set a font style for text.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5806 <p>This setting suggests a font style that ImageMagick should try to apply to
5807 the currently selected font family. Select <em class="arg">fontStyle</em> from
5817 <p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="#font">-font</a>, <a href="#family">-family</a>, <a href="#stretch">-stretch</a>, and <a href="#weight">-weight</a>. </p>
5819 <div style="margin: auto;">
5820 <h4><a id="subimage-search"></a>-subimage-search</h4>
5823 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>search for subimage.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/compare.html">compare</a>]</td></tr></table>
5825 <p>This option is required to have compare search for the best match location
5826 of a small image within a larger image. This search will produce two images
5827 (or two frames). The first is the "difference" image and the second will
5828 be the "match score" image.</p>
5830 <p>The "match-score" image is smaller containing a pixel for ever possible
5831 position of the top-left corner of the given sub-image. that is its size will
5832 be the size of the larger_image - sub_image + 1. The brightest location in
5833 this image is the location s the locate on the best match that is also
5834 reported. Note that this may or may nor be a perfect match, and the actual
5835 brightness will reflect this. Other bright 'peaks' can be used to locate other
5836 possible matching locations. </p>
5838 <p>Note that the search will try to compare the sub-image at every possible
5839 location in the larger image, as such it can be very slow. The smaller the
5840 sub-image the faster this search is. </p>
5843 <div style="margin: auto;">
5844 <h4><a id="swap"></a>-swap <em class="arg">index,index</em></h4>
5847 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Swap the positions of two images in the image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5849 <p>For example, <a href="#swap">-swap 0,2</a> swaps the first and the third
5850 images in the current image sequence. Use <a href="#swap">+swap</a> to switch
5851 the last two images in the sequence.</p>
5853 <div style="margin: auto;">
5854 <h4><a id="swirl"></a>-swirl <em class="arg">degrees</em></h4>
5857 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>swirl image pixels about the center.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5859 <p><em class="arg">Degrees</em> defines the tightness of the swirl.</p>
5861 <div style="margin: auto;">
5862 <h4><a id="synchronize"></a>-synchronize</h4>
5865 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>synchronize image to storage device.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5867 <div style="margin: auto;">
5868 <h4><a id="taint"></a>-taint</h4>
5871 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Mark the image as modified.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5873 <div style="margin: auto;">
5874 <h4><a id="text-font"></a>-text-font <em class="arg">name</em></h4>
5877 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>font for writing fixed-width text.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5879 <p>Specifies the name of the preferred font to use in fixed (typewriter style) formatted text. The default is 14 point <em class="arg">Courier</em>.</p>
5881 <p>You can tag a font to specify whether it is a PostScript, TrueType, or OPTION1 font. For example, <kbd>Courier.ttf</kbd> is a TrueType font and <kbd>x:fixed</kbd> is OPTION1.</p>
5883 <div style="margin: auto;">
5884 <h4><a id="texture"></a>-texture <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
5887 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>name of texture to tile onto the image background.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5889 <div style="margin: auto;">
5890 <h4><a id="threshold"></a>-threshold <em class="arg">value</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
5893 <!-- {<em class="arg">green,blue,opacity</em>}
5894 <p>If the green or blue value is omitted, these channels use the same value as the first one provided. If all three color values are the same, the result is a bi-level image. If the opacity threshold is omitted, OpaqueOpacity is used and any partially transparent pixel becomes fully transparent.</p>
5897 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Apply simultaneous black/white threshold to the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5899 <p>Any pixel values (more specifically, those channels set using <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a>) that exceed the specified threshold are reassigned the maximum channel value, while all other values are assigned the minimum.</p>
5901 <p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer value corresponding to the desired channel value. When given as an integer, the minimum attainable value is 0 (corresponding to black when all channels are affected), but the maximum value (corresponding to white) is that of the <kbd>quantum depth</kbd> of the particular build of ImageMagick, and is therefore dependent on the installation. For that reason, a reasonable recommendation for most applications is to specify the threshold values as a percentage.
5904 <p> The following would force pixels with red values above 50% to have 100% red values, while those at or below 50% red would be set to 0 in the red channel. The green, blue, and alpha channels (if present) would be unchanged. </p>
5906 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert in.png -channel red -threshold 50% out.png</span></p>
5907 <p>As (possibly) impractical but instructive examples, the following would generate an all-black and an all-white image with the same dimensions as the input image.</p>
5910 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert in.png -threshold 100% black.png</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert in.png -threshold -1 white.png</span></p>
5911 <p>Note that the values of the transparency channel is treated as 'matte'
5912 values (0 is opaque) and not as 'alpha' values (0 is transparent).</p>
5914 <p> See also <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#black-threshold">‑black‑threshold</a> and <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#white-threshold">‑white‑threshold</a>.
5917 <div style="margin: auto;">
5918 <h4><a id="thumbnail"></a>-thumbnail <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5921 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Create a thumbnail of the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5923 <p>This is similar to <a href="#resize">-resize</a>, except it is optimized for speed and any image profile, other than a color profile, is removed to reduce the thumbnail size. To strip the color profiles as well, add <a href="#strip">-strip</a> just before of after this option.</p>
5925 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5927 <div style="margin: auto;">
5928 <h4><a id="tile"></a>-tile <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
5931 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the tile image used for filling a subsequent graphic primitive.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5933 <div style="margin: auto;">
5934 <h4>-tile <em class="arg">geometry</em></h4>
5937 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify the layout of images .</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/montage.html">montage</a>]</td></tr></table>
5939 <p>See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html#geometry">Image Geometry</a> for complete details about the <em class="arg">geometry</em> argument.</p>
5941 <div style="margin: auto;">
5945 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specifies that a subsequent composite operation is repeated across and down image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
5947 <div style="margin: auto;">
5948 <h4><a id="tile-offset"></a>-tile-offset {<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em></h4>
5951 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify the offset for tile images, relative to the background image it is tiled on.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5953 <p>This should be set before the tiling image is set by <a href="#tile" >-tile</a> or <a href="#texture" >-texture</a>, or directly applied for creating a tiled canvas using <kbd>TILE:</kbd> or <kbd>PATTERN:</kbd> input formats. </p>
5955 <p>Internally ImageMagick does a <a href="#roll" >-roll</a> of the tile image by the arguments given when the tile image is set. </p>
5957 <div style="margin: auto;">
5958 <h4><a id="tint"></a>-tint <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
5961 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Tint the image with the fill color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5963 <p>Tint the image with the fill color.</p>
5965 <p>Specify the amount of tinting as a percentage. Pure colors like black, white red, yellow, will not be affected by -tint. Only mid-range colors such as the various shades of grey.</p>
5967 <div style="margin: auto;">
5968 <h4><a id="title"></a>-title <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
5971 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Assign a title to displayed image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>, <a href="../www/montage.html">montage</a>]</td></tr></table>
5973 <p>Use this option to assign a specific title to the image. This assigned to the image window and is typically displayed in the window title bar. Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, Exif data, or other image attribute by embedding special format characters described under the <a href="#format">-format</a> option.</p>
5978 -title "%m:%f %wx%h"
5981 <p>produces an image title of <kbd>MIFF:bird.miff 512x480</kbd> for an image titled <kbd>bird.miff</kbd> and whose width is 512 and height is 480.</p>
5984 <div style="margin: auto;">
5985 <h4><a id="transform"></a>-transform</h4>
5988 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>transform the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
5990 <p>This option applies the transformation matrix from a previous <a href="#affine">-affine</a> option.</p>
5992 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert -affine 2,2,-2,2,0,0 -transform bird.ppm bird.jpg</span></p>
5994 <p>This operator has been now been superseded by the <a
5995 href="#distort">-distort</a> '<kbd>AffineProjection</kbd>' method. </p>
5998 <div style="margin: auto;">
5999 <h4><a id="transparent"></a>-transparent <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
6002 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Make this color transparent within the image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6004 <p>The <em class="arg">color</em> argument is defined using the format
6005 described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option. The <a href="#fuzz"
6006 >-fuzz</a> setting can be used to match and replace colors similar to the one
6009 <p>Use <a href="#transparent" >+transparent</a> to invert the pixels matched.
6010 that is make all non-matching colors transparent. </p>
6012 <p>The <a href="#opaque">-opaque</a> operator is exactly the same as <a
6013 href="#transparent" >-transparent</a> but replaces the matching color with the
6014 current <a href="#fill">-fill</a> color setting, rather than transparent.
6015 However the <a href="#transparent" >-transparent</a> operator also ensures
6016 that the image has an alpha channel enabled, as per "<kbd><a href="#alpha"
6017 >-alpha</a> set</kbd>", and does not require you to modify the <a
6018 href="#channel">-channel</a> to enable alpha channel handling. </p>
6020 <p>Note that this does not define the color as being the 'transparency color'
6021 used for color-mapped image formats, such as GIF. For that use <a
6022 href="#transparent-color" >-transparent-color</a> </p>
6025 <div style="margin: auto;">
6026 <h4><a id="transparent-color"></a>-transparent-color <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
6029 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set the transparent color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6031 <p>Sometimes this is used for saving to image formats such as
6032 GIF and PNG8 which uses this color to represent boolean transparency. This
6033 does not make a color transparent, it only defines what color the transparent
6034 color is in the color palette of the saved image. Use <a
6035 href="#transparent">-transparent</a> to make an opaque color transparent.</p>
6037 <p>This option allows you to have both an opaque visible color, as well as a
6038 transparent color of the same color value without conflict. That is, you can
6039 use the same color for both the transparent and opaque color areas within an
6040 image. This, in turn, frees to you to select a transparent color that is
6041 appropriate when an image is displayed by an application that does not handle a
6042 transparent color index, while allowing ImageMagick to correctly handle images of this
6045 <p>The default transparent color is <kbd>#00000000</kbd>, which is fully transparent black.</p>
6047 <div style="margin: auto;">
6048 <h4><a id="transpose"></a>-transpose</h4>
6051 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Mirror the image along the top-left to bottom-right diagonal.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6053 <p> This option mathematically transposes the pixel array. It is equivalent to the sequence <kbd>-flip -rotate 90</kbd>.
6056 <div style="margin: auto;">
6057 <h4><a id="transverse"></a>-transverse</h4>
6060 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Mirror the image along the images bottom-left top-right diagonal. Equivalent to the operations <kbd>-flop -rotate 90</kbd>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6063 <div style="margin: auto;">
6064 <h4><a id="treedepth"></a>-treedepth <em class="arg">value</em></h4>
6067 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>tree depth for the color reduction algorithm.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6069 <p>Normally, this integer value is zero or one. A value of zero or one causes the use of an optimal tree depth for the color reduction algorithm.</p>
6071 <p>An optimal depth generally allows the best representation of the source image with the fastest computational speed and the least amount of memory. However, the default depth is inappropriate for some images. To assure the best representation, try values between 2 and 8 for this parameter. Refer to the <a href="../www/quantize.html">color reduction algorithm</a> for more details.</p>
6073 <p>The <a href="#colors">-colors</a> or <a href="#monochrome">-monochrome</a> option, or writing to an image format which requires color reduction, is required for this option to take effect.</p>
6075 <div style="margin: auto;">
6076 <h4><a id="trim"></a>-trim</h4>
6079 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>trim an image.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6081 <p>This option removes any edges that are exactly the same color as the corner pixels. Use <a href="#fuzz">-fuzz</a> to make <a href="#trim">-trim</a> remove edges that are nearly the same color as the corner pixels.</p>
6083 <p>The page or virtual canvas information of the image is preserved allowing
6084 you to extract the result of the <a href="#trim">-trim</a> operation from the
6085 image. Use a <a href="#repage">+repage</a> to remove the virtual canvas page
6086 information if it is unwanted.</p>
6088 <p>If the trimmed image 'disappears' an warning is produced, and a special
6089 single pixel transparent 'missed' image is returned, in the same way as when a
6090 <a href="#crop">-crop</a> operation 'misses' the image proper. </p>
6093 <div style="margin: auto;">
6094 <h4><a id="type"></a>-type <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
6097 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the image type.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6098 <p>Choose from: <kbd>Bilevel</kbd>, <kbd>Grayscale</kbd>, <kbd>GrayscaleMatte</kbd>, <kbd>Palette</kbd>, <kbd>PaletteMatte</kbd>, <kbd>TrueColor</kbd>, <kbd>TrueColorMatte</kbd>, <kbd>ColorSeparation</kbd>, or <kbd>ColorSeparationMatte</kbd>.</p>
6100 <p>Normally, when a format supports different subformats such as grayscale and truecolor, the encoder will try to choose an efficient subformat. The <a href="#type">-type</a> option can be used to override this behavior. For example, to prevent a JPEG from being written in grayscale format even though only gray pixels are present, use.</p>
6102 <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $ </span><span class='crtin'>convert bird.png -type TrueColor bird.jpg</span></p>
6103 <p>Similarly, use <a href="#type">-type TrueColorMatte</a> to force the encoder to write an alpha channel even though the image is opaque, if the output format supports transparency.</p>
6105 <p>Use <a href="#type">-type optimize</a> to ensure the image is written in the smallest possible file size.</p>
6107 <div style="margin: auto;">
6108 <h4><a id="undercolor"></a>-undercolor <em class="arg">color</em></h4>
6111 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>set the color of the annotation bounding box.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6113 <p>The color is specified using the format described under the <a href="#fill">-fill</a> option.</p>
6115 <p>See <a href="#draw">-draw</a> for further details.</p>
6118 <div style="margin: auto;">
6119 <h4><a id="update"></a>-update <em class="arg">seconds</em></h4>
6122 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>detect when image file is modified and redisplay.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6124 <p>Suppose that while you are displaying an image the file that is currently displayed is over-written. <kbd>display</kbd> will automagically detect that the input file has been changed and update the displayed image accordingly.</p>
6127 <div style="margin: auto;">
6128 <h4><a id="unique-colors"></a>-unique-colors</h4>
6131 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>discard all but one of any pixel color.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6134 <div style="margin: auto;">
6135 <h4><a id="units"></a>-units <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
6138 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>the units of image resolution.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6140 <p>Choose from: <kbd>Undefined</kbd>, <kbd>PixelsPerInch</kbd>, or <kbd>PixelsPerCentimeter</kbd>. This option is normally used in conjunction with the <a href="#density">-density</a> option.</p>
6143 <div style="margin: auto;">
6144 <h4><a id="unsharp"></a>-unsharp <em class="arg">radius</em><br />-unsharp <em class="arg">radius</em>x<em class="arg">sigma</em>{<em class="arg">+amount</em>}{<em class="arg">+threshold</em>}</h4>
6147 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>sharpen the image with an unsharp mask operator.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6149 <p>The <a href="#unsharp">-unsharp</a> option sharpens an image. The image is convolved with a Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma). For reasonable results, radius should be larger than sigma. Use a radius of 0 to have the method select a suitable radius.</p>
6151 <p>The parameters are:</p>
6154 radius The radius of the Gaussian, in pixels, not counting the center
6156 sigma The standard deviation of the Gaussian, in pixels (default 1.0).
6157 amount The fraction of the difference between the original and the blur
6158 image that is added back into the original (default 1.0).
6159 threshold The threshold, as a fraction of <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>, needed to apply the
6160 difference amount (default 0.05).
6164 <div style="margin: auto;">
6165 <h4><a id="verbose"></a>-verbose</h4>
6168 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>print detailed information about the image when this option precedes the <a href="#identify">-identify</a> option or <kbd>info:</kbd>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6171 <div style="margin: auto;">
6172 <h4><a id="version"></a>-version</h4>
6175 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>print ImageMagick version string and exit.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6178 <div style="margin: auto;">
6179 <h4><a id="view"></a>-view <em class="arg">string</em></h4>
6182 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>FlashPix viewing parameters.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6185 <div style="margin: auto;">
6186 <h4><a id="vignette"></a>-vignette <em class="arg">radius</em>{x<em class="arg">sigma</em>}{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">x</em>{<em class="arg">+-</em>}<em class="arg">y</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
6189 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>soften the edges of the image in vignette style.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6192 <div style="margin: auto;">
6193 <h4><a id="virtual-pixel"></a>-virtual-pixel <em class="arg">method</em></h4>
6196 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Specify contents of <em>virtual pixels</em>.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6198 <p>This option defines what color source should be used if and when a color
6199 lookup completely 'misses' the source image. The color(s) that appear to
6200 surround the source image. Generally this color is derived from the source
6201 image, but could also be set to a specify background color. </p>
6203 <p>Choose from these methods:</p>
6206 background the area surrounding the image is the background color
6207 black the area surrounding the image is black
6208 checker-tile alternate squares with image and background color
6209 dither non-random 32x32 dithered pattern
6210 edge extend the edge pixel toward infinity
6211 gray the area surrounding the image is gray
6212 horizontal-tile horizontally tile the image, background color above/below
6213 horizontal-tile-edge horizontally tile the image and replicate the side edge pixels
6214 mirror mirror tile the image
6215 random choose a random pixel from the image
6216 tile tile the image (default)
6217 transparent the area surrounding the image is transparent blackness
6218 vertical-tile vertically tile the image, sides are background color
6219 vertical-tile-edge vertically tile the image and replicate the side edge pixels
6220 white the area surrounding the image is white
6223 <p>The default value is "edge".</p>
6225 <p>This most important for distortion operators such as <a href="#distort"
6226 >-distort</a>, <a href="#implode" >-implode</a>, and <a href="#fx" >-fx</a>.
6227 However it also effects operations that may access pixels just outside the
6228 image proper, such as <a href="#convolve">-convolve</a>, <a
6229 href="#blur">-blur</a>, and <a href="#sharpen">-sharpen</a>. </p>
6231 <p>To print a complete list of virtual pixel types, use the <a href="#list">-list virtual-pixel</a> option.</p>
6234 <div style="margin: auto;">
6235 <h4><a id="visual"></a>-visual <em class="arg">type</em></h4>
6238 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Animate images using this X visual type.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
6240 <p>Choose from these visual classes:</p>
6253 <p>The X server must support the visual you choose, otherwise an error occurs. If a visual is not specified, the visual class that can display the most simultaneous colors on the default screen is chosen.</p>
6256 <div style="margin: auto;">
6257 <h4><a id="watermark"></a>-watermark <em
6258 class="arg">brightness</em>x<em class="arg">saturation</em></h4>
6261 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Watermark an image using the given percentages of brightness and
6262 saturation.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/composite.html">composite</a>]</td></tr></table>
6264 <p>Take a grayscale image (with alpha mask) and modify the destination image's
6265 brightness according to watermark image's grayscale value and the <em
6266 class="arg">brightness</em> percentage. The destinations color saturation
6267 attribute is just direct modified by the <em class="arg">saturation</em>
6268 percentage, which defaults to 100 percent (no color change). </p>
6271 <div style="margin: auto;">
6272 <h4><a id="wave"></a>-wave <em class="arg">amplitude</em><br />-wave <em class="arg">amplitude</em>x<em class="arg">wavelength</em></h4>
6275 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Shear the columns of an image into a sine wave.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6277 <p>Specify <em class="arg">amplitude</em> and <em class="arg">wavelength</em> of the wave.</p>
6279 <div style="margin: auto;">
6280 <h4><a id="weight"></a>-weight <em class="arg">fontWeight</em></h4>
6283 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Set a font weight for text.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6285 <p>This setting suggests a font weight that ImageMagick should try to apply to the currently selected font family. Use a positive integer for <em class="arg">fontWeight</em> or select from the following.</p>
6292 <th><em class="arg">fontWeight</em></th>
6293 <th>Description</th>
6297 <tr><td>All </td> <td>No effect. </td></tr>
6298 <tr><td>Bold </td> <td>Same as <em class="arg">fontWeight</em> = 700.</td></tr>
6299 <tr><td>Bolder </td> <td>Add 100 to font weight if currently ≤ 800.</td></tr>
6300 <tr><td>Lighter </td> <td>Subtract 100 to font weight if currently ≤ 100.</td></tr>
6301 <tr><td>Normal </td> <td>Same as <em class="arg">fontWeight</em> = 400.</td></tr>
6305 <p>To print a complete list of weight types, use <a href="#list">-list weight</a>.</p>
6307 <p>For other settings that affect fonts, see the options <a href="#font">-font</a>, <a href="#family">-family</a>, <a href="#stretch">-stretch</a>, and <a href="#style">-style</a>. </p>
6309 <div style="margin: auto;">
6310 <h4><a id="white-point"></a>-white-point <em class="arg">x,y</em></h4>
6313 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>chromaticity white point.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6315 <div style="margin: auto;">
6316 <h4><a id="white-threshold"></a>-white-threshold <em class="arg">value</em>{<em class="arg">%</em>}</h4>
6319 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Force to white all pixels above the threshold while leaving all pixels at or below the threshold unchanged.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6321 <p> The threshold value can be given as a percentage or as an absolute integer value within [0, <em class="QR">QuantumRange</em>] corresponding to the desired <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel">‑channel</a> value. See <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#threshold">‑threshold</a> for more details on thresholds and resulting values.
6324 <div style="margin: auto;">
6325 <h4><a id="window"></a>-window <em class="arg">id</em></h4>
6328 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>Make the image the background of a window.</td><td style='text-align:right;'>[<a href="../www/animate.html">animate</a>, <a href="../www/display.html">display</a>]</td></tr></table>
6330 <p><em class="arg">id</em> can be a window id or name. Specify <kbd>root</kbd> to select X's root window as the target window.</p>
6332 <p>By default the image is tiled onto the background of the target window. If <kbd>backdrop</kbd> or <a href="#geometry">-resize</a> are specified, the image is surrounded by the background color. Refer to <kbd>X RESOURCES</kbd> for details.</p>
6334 <p>The image will not display on the root window if the image has more unique colors than the target window colormap allows. Use <a href="#colors">-colors</a> to reduce the number of colors.</p>
6336 <div style="margin: auto;">
6337 <h4><a id="window-group"></a>-window-group</h4>
6340 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>specify the window group.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6342 <div style="margin: auto;">
6343 <h4><a id="write"></a>-write <em class="arg">filename</em></h4>
6346 <table style='background-color:#FFFFE0; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; width:88%'><tr><td style='width:75%'>write an image sequence.</td><td style='text-align:right;'></td></tr></table>
6347 <p>The image sequence preceding the <a href="#write">-write</a> <em class="arg">filename</em> option is written out, and processing continues with the same image in its current state if there are additional options. To restore the image to its original state after writing it, use the <a href="#write">+write</a> <em class="arg">filename</em> option.</p>
6349 <p>Use <a href="#compress">-compress</a> to specify the type of image compression.</p>
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