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+Introduction to ImageMagick
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+  ImageMagick®, http://www.imagemagick.org, is a software suite to create,
+  edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in
+  a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,
+  PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to scale,
+  flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image
+  colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
+  ellipses and Bézier curves.
+  
+  The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command
+  line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite
+  programming language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore
+  (C), MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
+  (C++), JMagick (Java), L-Magick (Lisp), NMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet
+  (.NET), PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP
+  (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick
+  (Tcl/TK). With a language interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create
+  images dynamically and automagically.
+  
+  ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution
+  or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute
+  in both open and proprietary applications. It is distributed under the
+  Apache 2.0 license, approved by the OSI and recommended for use by the OSSCC.
+  
+  The ImageMagick development process ensures a stable API and ABI. Before
+  each ImageMagick release, we perform a comprehensive security assessment
+  that includes memory and thread error detection to prevent security
+  vulnerabilities.
+
+Features and Capabilities
+  
+  Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
+  
+      * 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.
+      * Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.
+      * Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.
+      * Image identification: describe the format and attributes of an image.
+      * Composite: overlap one image over another.
+      * Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas.
+      * Generalized pixel distortion: correct for, or induce image distortions
+        including perspective.
+      * Morphology of shapes: extract features, describe shapes and recognize
+        patterns in images.
+      * Motion picture support: read and write the common image formats used in
+        digital film work.
+      * Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image
+        channels.
+      * Discrete Fourier transform: implements the forward and inverse DFT.
+      * High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the wide range of
+        intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct
+        sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows.
+      * Encipher or decipher an image: convert ordinary images into
+        unintelligible gibberish and back again.
+      * Virtual pixel support: convenient access to pixels outside the image
+        region.
+      * Large image support: read, process, or write mega-, giga-, or
+        tera-pixel image sizes.
+      * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and most
+        internal algorithms are OpenMP-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups
+        offered by multicore processor chips.
+      * Distributed pixel cache: offload intermediate pixel storage to one or
+        more remote servers.
+      * Heterogeneous distributed processing: certain algorithms are
+        OpenCL-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups offered by executing in
+        concert across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and
+        other processors.
+      * ImageMagick on the iPhone: convert, edit, or compose images on your
+        iPhone.
+  
+  Examples of ImageMagick Usage, http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/, shows how
+  to use ImageMagick from the command-line to accomplish any of these tasks and
+  much more. Also, see Fred's ImageMagick Scripts,
+  http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/: a plethora of command-line scripts
+  that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal,
+  and color manipulations.