ImageMagick Tricks: Web Image Effects from the Command Line and PHP

Table of Contents

• Preface

 

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • ImageMagick Features

• ImageMagick’s Core Utilities
  • Display
  • Convert
  • Import
  • Animate
  • Composite
  • Montage
  • Mogrify
  • Conjure
  • Identify

• Interfaces
  • ImageMagick and X11 standard

• Summary

 

• Chapter 2: Installation and Configuration
  • Where to get ImageMagick
  • What are the Installation Requirements?
  • Installation
    • Binary Installers
    • Source files

• How to Install ImageMagick from Binaries
  • How to Install from UNIX-like Binary Releases
    • How to Verify the Program Installation
  • How to Install from a Windows Binary Release

• How to Install ImageMagick from Source
  • Installing from a UNIX-like Source
    • What are Makefiles?
    • How to Use GNU Configure for Creating Makefiles
    • Configure Command in Action
    • How to Use the Make Command for LINUX
    • How to Build ImageMagick for the VMS Platform
    • How to Build ImageMagick for the Macintosh Platform
    • How to Build ImageMagick for the Windows Platform
  • How to Handle Bugs and Errors
    • Dealing with Configuration Failures

• Summary

 

• Chapter 3: Convert and Mogrify
  • Convert Syntax and Options
  • How to Draw Basic Shapes with Convert
    • Workshop I: Creating a Simple Logo
  • Painting Methods
    • Workshop II: Color Filling with –draw
  • Deformations
    • Workshop III: Image Distortion
  • Basic Transformations
    • How to Rotate Drawings in ImageMagick
    • Workshop IV: Rotating Text
    • How to Resize Drawings in ImageMagick
    • How to Crop Images Using ImageMagick
    • The –shave Option
    • Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns in Images
    • Skewing Images
    • Workshop V: The Flag
  • Artistic Options
    • Workshop VI: Applying Various Filters on an Image
  • Mogrify Syntax and Options
    • Workshop VII: The Card
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 4: Composite and Montage
  • Composite
  • Composite Syntax and Options
    • What is the Mask?
    • Workshop I: Colorful Logo
    • Composite Parameters
    • Workshop II: 3D Button
    • Workshop III: Fresh Candy
  • Montage
    • Montage Syntax and Options
    • Workshop IV: The Montage Descriptive Options
    • Workshop V: The Montage Adornment Options
    • Workshop VI: The Montage Arrangement Options
    • Workshop VII: Creating an Indexed Image Web Page
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 5: Identify, Display, and Import
  • Identify
    • Identify Syntax and Options
    • How to Extract Information from an Image
    • How to get Brief Information from Images
    • How to get Detailed Information from Images
    • How to get Customized Information from Images
    • How to Get Information about ImageMagick
  • Display
    • Display Syntax and Options
    • Workshop I: Looking at Some Display Examples
  • Import
    • Import Syntax and Options
    • Workshop II: Looking at Some Import Examples
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 6: Animation
  • Animate Syntax and Options
  • How to Display an Animation
  • How to Create an Animation
    • Workshop I: Simple Type Effect
    • Workshop II: Animated Logo
    • Workshop III: Animated Artistic Effects
  • How to make Complex Animations
    • How to Split an Animation into Frames
    • Workshop IV: Multi-Animation Files
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 7: Conjure
  • Conjure Syntax and Options
  • What are the Valid Key-Value Pairs for MSL files?
    • Workshop I: Using Multiple MSL Files in One Conjure Call
  • Compare
    • How to Compare Two Images
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 8: Practical Web Projects
  • How to call ImageMagick Command-line Utilities within PHP code
  • How to Save the Result of an Online Image Processing Task
  • How to Start Sessions for our Visitors
  • Building a Confirmation-Code Box
  • Online Image Water Marking
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 9: An E-Card Application
  • Wizard Step 1: How to Receive Images
    • How to Receive Images from URLs
    • How to Upload Images
  • Wizard Step 2: How to Write Text on Input Images
    • How to Show Image, Image Size, and the Required Fields for Writing Text
  • Wizard Step 3: Final Image
  • Summary

 

• Chapter 10: Exciting E-Card Designs
  • E-card A: Simple Letters
  • E-card B: Write on Curved Surfaces
  • E-card C: Carving Technique
  • How to Make Input Text more Flexible
  • Creating a Parameterized Book Cover Generator Page
  • Summary

 

• Appendix A: Install New Fonts In ImageMagick
  • Why Don't Some Fonts Work Correctly?
  • How to Identify the Current Installed Fonts
  • Where to Find Fonts and Other Free Resources
    • Free Fonts
    • Free Photos
    • Free Animations

• How to Define New Fonts for ImageMagick

 

• Appendix B: Compression In ImageMagick
  • Compression versus Quality
  • ImageMagick Options for Compression
  • Lossy versus Lossless Compression Algorithms
  • ImageMagick –compress and –quality Options

 

• Index