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Learn ImageMagick - Pre-Requisite Skills & Environment Setup
Setting up the skills and environment before image automation begins: comfort in the bash/zsh terminal, basic shell scripting, and an understanding of pixel concepts, color channels, and image formats. It ends with installing ImageMagick 7 (magick), choosing a Q8, Q16, or Q16-HDRI build, and creating practice images in PNG, JPEG, and WebP.
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Learn ImageMagick - History, Background & Why You Need ImageMagick
Tracing ImageMagick's journey from its birth in 1990 in the hands of John Cristy while working at DuPont, the evolution from the legacy ImageMagick 6 to ImageMagick 7 with its unified magick command, to the real problems it solves: processing 200+ image formats from a single tool without a GUI.
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Learn ImageMagick - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
Dissecting the ImageMagick 7 architecture: a single magick command that replaces convert, mogrify, identify, compare, montage, stream, animate, and display, the roles of MagickCore and MagickWand, the coder module for each format, delegates, up to the pixel model with quantum depth, colorspace, alpha, and image lists.
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Learn ImageMagick - Basic Format Conversion
First hands-on: converting images between formats with magick, forcing the output format via the extension or a format prefix, controlling quality and compression for JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JXL, and verifying results with magick identify.
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Learn ImageMagick - Resize, Crop & Transform
Mastering image size and transformations: changing dimensions with resize, scale, and thumbnail, understanding the aspect ratio operators, cropping with crop, and controlling rotation, flip, flop, trim, extent, and placement with gravity.
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Learn ImageMagick - Colorspace, Channel & Alpha
Controlling image color: converting between colorspaces like sRGB and CMYK, reducing the number of colors with colors, quantize, and posterize, adjusting levels, gamma, and contrast, working per channel with channel, and managing transparency with alpha, transparent, and channel-fx.
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Learn ImageMagick - Montage, Animate & Display
In this episode you'll arrange many images into a single thumbnail grid with magick montage, play GIF animations with magick animate, and inspect images interactively with magick display before publishing.
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Learn ImageMagick - Draw, Text & Annotations
In this episode you'll draw shapes and lines with -draw, write text with -annotate, create transparent watermarks, and use caption for text that automatically adjusts its size.
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Learn ImageMagick - Basic Filters & Effects
In this episode you'll change an image's mood with blur, sharpen, median, edge detection, and artistic effects, then combine two images with compositing operators such as multiply, screen, and difference.
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Learn ImageMagick - Image Lists & Multi-frame (GIF/TIFF/PDF)
In this episode you'll understand image lists, access frames with indexes, create GIF animations with delay and loop, fix frames with coalesce, and manage multi-page TIFF and PDF documents.
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