ImageMagick Notes
<2022-05-01 Sun>
Get the size of an image
- Use the
identify command with a format. For example identify -format "%wx%h\n" someimage.jpg. This will print the width and height in the desired format.
Take a screenshot of a section of your screen
imagemagick has the import tool which lets you drag a box to take a screenshot, for example import myscreenshot.png causes the cursor to turn into a cross heirs. You then drag a box and it will be saved in the file name your specified.
Reduce the image quality of image
convert -quality 70 image.png image.jpg
Command line program to view images
- The
display command can be used to view images
- It will open a window in xorg that shows the image