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ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. ImageMagick can read, convert and write images in a variety of image formats including DPX, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.

ImageMagick features:

• Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG)
• Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image
• Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
• Draw: add shapes or text to an image
• Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
• Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image
• Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image channels
• Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image
• Image identification: describe the format and attributes of an image
• Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images
• Composite: overlap one image over another
• Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas
• Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image sizes

ImageMagick can be used to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. You can see examples of what you can do with an image using ImageMagick.

ImageMagick includes an X Window Graphical user interface for rendering images, command line utilities for image processing, and API libraries for many programming languages. It is written in C and interfaces to the X library, and therefore does not require any proprietary toolkit in order to compile.

ImageMagick is a free and open source software, and runs on all major operating systems. It can be used as a component of both open source and proprietary applications. You can download ImageMagick from the download page.

ImageMagick includes a number of command-line utilities for manipulating images. To see the list of command-line options recognized by the ImageMagick command-line tools, click here.