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>Synopsis
convert [ options ... ] input_file output_file
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>Description
Convert converts an input file using one image format to an output file with a differing image format. In addition, various types of image processing can be performed on the converted image during the conversion process. Convert recognizes the following image formats:

*AVS - AVS X image file.
*BIE+ - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format.
*BMP+ - Microsoft Windows bitmap image file.
*BMP24+ - Microsoft Windows 24-bit bitmap image file.
*CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile.
*CMYK - Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes.
*DCX+ - ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file.
*DIB - Microsoft Windows bitmap image file.
*DICOM - Medical image file.
*EPDF - Encapsulated Portable Document Format.
*EPI - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format.
*EPS - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
*EPS2 - Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript file.
*EPSF - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
*EPSI - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format.
*EPT - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview.
*FAX+ - Group 3.
*FIG - TransFig image format.
*FITS - Flexible Image Transport System.
*FPX - FlashPix Format.
*GIF - CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color.
*GIF87 - CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color (version 87a).
*GRAY - Raw gray bytes.
*GRADIENT- gradual passing from one shade to another. Specify the desired shading with the filename (e.g. gradient:red-blue).
*GRANITE - granite texture.
*HDF+ - Hierarchical Data Format.
*HISTOGRAM
*HPGL - HP-GL plotter language.
*HTML - Hypertext Markup Language a with client-side image map.
*JBIG+ - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format.
*JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format; compressed 24-bit color.
*ICO - Microsoft icon.
*LABEL - text image.
*MAP - colormap intensities and indices.
*MIFF+ - Magick image file format.
*MNG+ - Multiple-image Network Graphics.
*MONO - Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte (LSB) first order.
*MPEG+ - Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format.
*MTV+ -
*MVG - Magick Vector Graphics.
*M2V+ - Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2).
*NETSCAPE - Netscape 216 color cube.
*NULL - NULL image.
*PBM+ - Portable bitmap format (black and white).
*PCD - Photo CD. The maximum resolution written is 512x768 pixels.
*PCDS - Photo CD. Decode with the sRGB color table.
*PCL - Page Control Language.
*PCX - ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file.
*PDF+ - Portable Document Format.
*PGM+ - Portable graymap format (gray scale).
*PICT - Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file.
*PIX - Alias/Wavefront RLE image format.
*PLASMA - plasma fractal image. Specify the base color as the filename (e.g. plasma:gray). Use fractal to initialize to a random value (e.g. plasma:fractal).
*PNG - Portable Network Graphics.
*PNM+ - Portable anymap.
*PPM+ - Portable pixmap format (color).
*PS+ - Adobe PostScript file.
*PSD - Adobe PhotoShop bitmap file.
*PS2+ - Adobe Level II PostScript file.
*RAD - Radiance image file.
*RGB - Raw red, green, and blue bytes.
*RGBA - Raw red, green, blue, and matte bytes.
*RLA - Alias/Wavefront image file; read only.
*RLE - Utah Run length encoded image file; read only.
*SGI+ - Irix RGB image file.
*SHTML - Hypertext Markup Language a with client-side image map.
*SUN+ - SUN Rasterfile.
*SVG+ - Scalable Vector Graphics.
*TEXT - raw text file; read only.
*TGA+ - Truevision Targa image file.
*TIFF+ - Tagged Image File Format.
*TIFF24+ - 24-bit Tagged Image File Format.
*TILE - tile image with a texture.
*TIM - PSX TIM file.
*TTF - TrueType font file.
*UIL - X-Motif UIL table.
*UYVY - Interleaved YUV.
*VICAR - read only.
*VID - Visual Image Directory.
*VIFF+ - Khoros Visualization image file.
*WIN - select image from or display image to your computer screen.
*X - select image from or display image to your X server screen.
*XC - constant image of X server color. Specify the image color as the filename (e.g. xc:yellow).
*XBM - X Windows system bitmap, black and white only.
*XPM - X Windows system pixmap file (color).
*XWD - X Windows system window dump file (color).
*YUV+ - CCIR 601 4:1:1 file.

Support for some of these formats require additional programs or libraries. README tells where to find this software.

Note, a format delineated with + means that if more than one image is specified, it is combined into a single multi-image file. Use +adjoin if you want a single image produced for each frame.

Raw images are expected to have one byte per pixel unless ImageMagick is compiled in 16-bit mode. Here, the raw data is expected to be stored two bytes per pixel in most-significant-byte-first order.

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>Examples 

To convert a MIFF image of a cockatoo to a SUN raster image, use:
convert cockatoo.miff sun:cockatoo.ras

To convert a multi-page PostScript document to individual FAX pages, use:
convert -monochrome document.ps fax:page

To convert a TIFF image to a PostScript A4 page with the image in the lower left-hand corner, use:
convert -page A4+0+0 image.tiff document.ps

To convert a raw Gray image with a 128 byte header to a portable graymap, use:

convert -size 768x5.2.228 gray:raw image.pgm

To convert a Photo CD image to a TIFF image, use:

convert -size 1536x1024 img0009.pcd image.tiff
convert img0009.pcd[4] image.tiff

To create a visual image directory of all your JPEG images, use:
convert 'vid:*.jpg' directory.miff

To annotate an image with blue text using font 12x24 at position (100,100), use:
convert -font helvetica -fill blue -draw "text 100,100 Cockatoo" bird.jpg bird.miff

To tile a 640x480 image with a JPEG texture with bumps use:
convert -size 640x480 tile:bumps.jpg tiled.png

To surround an icon with an ornamental border to use with Mosaic(1), use:
convert -mattecolor #697B8F -frame 6x6 bird.jpg icon.png

To create a GIF animation from a DNA molecule sequence, use:
convert -delay 20 dna.* dna.png
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>Options
Options are processed in command line order. Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect until it is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with a different effect.

 

 
>-adjoin
join images into a single multi-image file.

By default, all images of an image sequence are stored in the same file. However, some formats (e.g. JPEG) do not support more than one image and are saved to separate files. Use +adjoin to force this behavior.

 
>-antialias
remove pixel aliasing.
 
>-append
append a set of images.

All the input images must have the same width or height. Images of the same width are stacked top-to-bottom. Images of the same height are stacked left-to-right. Use +append to stack rectangular images left-to-right.

 
>-average
average a set of images.
 
>-blur <radius>x<sigma>
blur the image with a gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).
 
>-border <width>x<height>
surround the image with a border of color. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification.
 
>-bordercolor color
the border color.
 
>-box color
set the color of the annotation bounding box. See -draw for further details.
 
>-cache threshold
megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache.

Image pixels are stored in memory until 80 megabytes of memory have been consumed. Subsequent pixel operations are cached on disk. Operations to memory are significantly faster but if your computer does not have a sufficient amount of free memory you may want to adjust this threshold value.

 
>-channel type
the type of channel: Red, Green, Blue, or Matte.
Use this option to extract a particular channel from the image. Matte, for example, is useful for extracting the opacity values from an image.
 
>-charcoal factor
simulate a charcoal drawing.
 
>-coalesce
merge a sequence of images.
See X(1) for details about the color specification.
 
>-colorize value
colorize the image with the pen color.

Specify the amount of colorization as a percentage. You can apply separate colorization values to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with a colorization value list delineated with slashes (e.g. 0/0/50).

 
>-colors value
preferred number of colors in the image.

The actual number of colors in the image may be less than your request, but never more. Note, this is a color reduction option. Images with less unique colors than specified with this option will have any duplicate or unused colors removed. Refer to quantize for more details.


Note, options -dither, -colorspace, and -treedepth affect the color reduction algorithm.

 
>-colorspace value
the type of colorspace: GRAY, OHTA, RGB, Transparent, XYZ, YCbCr, YIQ, YPbPr, YUV, or CMYK.

Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGB color space. Empirical evidence suggests that distances in color spaces such as YUV or YIQ correspond to perceptual color differences more closely than do distances in RGB space. These color spaces may give better results when color reducing an image. Refer to quantize for more details.

The Transparent color space behaves uniquely in that it preserves the matte channel of the image if it exists.

The -colors or -monochrome option is required for this option to take effect.

 
>-comment string
annotate an image with a comment.

Use this option to assign a specific comment to the image. You can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image attribute by embedding special format characters:

    %b   file size
    %c   comment
    %d   directory
    %e   filename extention
    %f   filename
    %h   height
    %i   input filename
    %l   label
    %m   magick
    %n   number of scenes
    %o   output filename
    %p   page number
    %q   quantum depth
    %s   scene number
    %t   top of filename
    %u   unique temporary filename
    %w   width
    %x   x resolution
    %y   y resolution
    \\n   newline
    \\r   carriage return
For example, 
  -comment "%m:%f %wx%h"
produces an image comment of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480.
If the first character of string is @, the image comment is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string.
 
>-compress type
the type of image compression: None, BZip, Fax, Group4, JPEG, LZW, RunlengthEncoded or Zip.

Specify +compress to store the binary image in an uncompressed format. The default is the compression type of the specified image file.

 
>-contrast
enhance or reduce the image contrast.

This option enhances the intensity differences between the lighter and darker elements of the image. Use -contrast to enhance the image or +contrast to reduce the image contrast.

 
>-crop <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>{%}
preferred size and location of the cropped image. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification.

To specify a percentage width or height instead, append %. For example to crop the image by ten percent on all sides of the image, use -crop 10%.

Use cropping to apply image processing options to, or display, a particular area of an image.

Omit the x and y offset to generate one or more subimages of a uniform size.

Use cropping to crop a particular area of an image. Use -crop 0x0 to trim edges that are the background color. Add an x and y offset to leave a portion of the trimmed edges with the image.

 
>-cycle amount
displace image colormap by amount.

Amount defines the number of positions each colormap entry is shifted.

 
>-deconstruct
break down an image sequence into constituent parts.
 
>-delay <1/100ths of a second>
display the next image after pausing.

This option is useful for regulating the animation of GIF images within Netscape.. 1/100ths of a second must expire before the display of the next image. The default is no delay between each showing of the image sequence. The maximum delay is 65535.

You can specify a delay range (e.g. -delay 10-500) which sets the minimum and maximum delay.

 
>-density <width>x<height>
vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image.

This option specifies an image density when decoding a PostScript or Portable Document page. The default is 72 dots per inch in the horizontal and vertical direction. This option is used in concert with -page.

 
>-depth value
depth of the image. This is the number of bits in a pixel. The only acceptable values are 8 or 16.
 
>-despeckle
reduce the speckles within an image.
 
>-display host:display[.screen]
specifies the X server to contact. This option is used with convert for obtaining image or font from this X server. see X(1).
 
>-dispose method
GIF disposal method.

Here are the valid methods:

  0     No disposal specified.
  1     Do not dispose between frames.      
  2     Overwrite frame with background color from header.
  3     Overwrite with previous frame.
 
>-dither
apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image.

The basic strategy of dithering is to trade intensity resolution for spatial resolution by averaging the intensities of several neighboring pixels. Images which suffer from severe contouring when reducing colors can be improved with this option.

The -colors or -monochrome option is required for this option to take effect.

Use +dither to render Postscript without text or graphic aliasing.

 
>-draw string
annotate an image with one or more graphic primitives.

Use this option to annotate an image with one or more graphic primitives. The primitives include

     point
     line
     rectangle
     roundRectangle
     arc
     ellipse
     circle
     polyline
     polygon
     bezier
     path
     color
     matte
     text
     image
Point and line each require a single coordinate. Line requires a start and end coordinate, while rectangle expects an upper left and lower right coordinate. roundRectangle has a center coordinate, a width and height, and the width and height of the corners. Circle has a center coordinate and a coordinate for the outer edge. Use Arc to circumscribe an arc within a rectangle. Arcs require a start and end point as well as the degree of rotation (e.g. 130,30 200,100 45,90). Use Ellipse to draw a partial ellipse centered at the given point with the x-axis and y-axis radius and start and end of arc in degrees (e.g. 100,100 100,150 0,360). Finally, polyline and polygon require three or more coordinates to define its boundaries. Coordinates are integers separated by an optional comma. For example, to define a circle centered at 100,100 that extends to 150,150 use: 
     -draw 'circle 100,100 150,150'
Paths represent an outline of an object which is defined in terms of moveto (set a new current point), lineto (draw a straight line), curveto (draw a curve using a cubic bezier), arc (elliptical or circular arc) and closepath (close the current shape by drawing a line to the last moveto) elements. Compound paths (i.e., a path with subpaths, each consisting of a single moveto followed by one or more line or curve operations) are possible to allow effects such as "donut holes" in objects.

Use color to change the color of a pixel. Follow the pixel coordinate with a method:

     point
     replace
     floodfill
     filltoborder
     reset
Consider the target pixel as that specified by your coordinate. The point method recolors the target pixel. The replace method recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel. Floodfill recolors any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel and is a neighbor, whereas filltoborder recolors any neighbor pixel that is not the border color. Finally, reset recolors all pixels.

Use matte to the change the pixel matte value to transparent. Follow the pixel coordinate with a method (see the color primitive for a description of methods). The point method changes the matte value of the target pixel. The replace method changes the matte value of any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel. Floodfill changes the matte value of any pixel that matches the color of the target pixel and is a neighbor, whereas filltoborder changes the matte value of any neighbor pixel that is not the border color (-bordercolor). Finally reset changes the matte value of all pixels.

Use text to annotate an image with text. Follow the text coordinates with a string. If the string has embedded spaces, enclose it in double quotes. Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image attribute by embedding special format character. See -comment for details.

For example,

     -draw 'text 100,100 "%m:%f %wx%h"'
annotates the image with MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480. To generate a Unicode character (TrueType fonts only), embed the code as an escaped hex string (e.g. \0x30a3).

Use image to composite an image with another image. Follow the image coordinates with the image size and filename: 

     -draw 'image 100,100 225,225 image.jpg'

If the first character of string is @, the text is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string.

You can set the primitive color, font color, and font bounding box color with -fill, -font, and -box respectively. Options are processed in command line order so be sure to use -fillbefore the -draw option.

 
>-edge order
detect edges within an image. Good order values are odd numbers from 3 to 31
 
>-enhance
apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image.
 
>-equalize
perform histogram equalization to the image.
 
>-fill color
color to use when filling a graphic primitive. See -draw for further details.
 
>-filter type
use this type of filter when resizing an image.

Use this option to affect the resizing operation of an image (see -geometry). Choose from these filters:

     Point
     Box
     Triangle
     Hermite
     Hanning
     Hamming
     Blackman
     Gaussian
     Quadratic
     Cubic
     Catrom
     Mitchell
     Lanczos
     Bessel
     Sinc
The default filter is Lanczos.
 
>-flip
create a "mirror image" by reflecting the scanlines in the vertical direction.
 
>-flop
create a "mirror image" by reflecting the image scanlines in the horizontal direction.
 
>-font name
use this font when annotating the image with text.

You can tag a font to specify whether it is a Postscript, Truetype, or X11 font. For example, Arial.ttf is a Truetype font, ps:helvetica is Postscript, and x:fixed is X11.

 
>-frame <width>x<height+<outer bevel width>+<inner bevel width
surround the image with an ornamental border. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification.

The color of the border is specified with the -mattecolor command line option.

 
>-fuzz distance
colors within this distance are considered equal.

A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color in RGB space. For example, if you want to automatically trim the edges of an image with -crop 0x0 but the image was scanned. The target background color may differ by a small amount. This option can account for these differences.

 
>-gamma value
level of gamma correction.

The same color image displayed on two different workstations may look different due to differences in the display monitor. Use gamma correction to adjust for this color difference. Reasonable values extend from 0.8 to 2.3.

You can apply separate gamma values to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with a gamma value list delineated with slashes (i.e. 1.7,2.3,1.2).

Use +gamma to set the image gamma level without actually adjusting the image pixels. This option is useful if the image is of a known gamma but not set as an image attribute (e.g. PNG images).

 
>-gaussian <radius>x<sigma>
blur the image with a gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).
 
>-geometry <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>{%}{!}{<}{>}
preferred size and location of the Image window. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification. By default, the window size is the image size and the location is chosen by you when it is mapped.

By default, the width and height are maximum values. That is, the image is expanded or contracted to fit the width and height value while maintaining the aspect ratio of the image. Append an exclamation point to the geometry to force the image size to exactly the size you specify. For example, if you specify 640x480! the image width is set to 640 pixels and height to 480. If only one factor is specified, both the width and height assume the value.

To specify a percentage width or height instead, append %. The image size is multiplied by the width and height percentages to obtain the final image dimensions. To increase the size of an image, use a value greater than 100 (e.g. 125%). To decrease an image's size, use a percentage less than 100.

Use > to change the dimensions of the image only if its size exceeds the geometry specification. < resizes the image only if its dimensions is less than the geometry specification. For example, if you specify 640x480> and the image size is 512x512, the image size does not change. However, if the image is 1024x1024, it is resized to 640x480.

Use < to change the dimensions of the image only if its size exceeds the geometry specification. > resizes the image only if its dimensions is less than the geometry specification. For example, if you specify 640x480> and the image size is 512x512, the image size does not change. However, if the image is 1024x1024, it is resized to 640x480.

There are 72 pixels per inch in PostScript coordinates.

 
>-gravity type
direction text gravitates to when annotating the image: NorthWest, North, NorthEast, West, Center, East, SouthWest, South, SouthEast. See X(1) for details about the gravity specification.

The direction you choose specifies where to position the text when annotating the image. For example Center gravity forces the text to be centered within the image. By default, the image gravity is NorthWest.

 
>-implode factor
implode image pixels about the center. Specify factor as the percent implosion (0 - 99.9%) or explosion (-99.9 - 0%).
 
>-intent type
use this type of rendering intent when managing the image color.

Use this option to affect the the color management operation of an image (see -profile). Choose from these intents:

     Absolute
     Perceptual
     Relative
     Saturation
The default intent is undefined.
 
>-interlace type
the type of interlacing scheme: None, Line, Plane, or Partition. The default is None.

This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as RGB or YUV. None means do not interlace (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...), Line uses scanline interlacing (RRR...GGG...BBB...RRR...GGG...BBB...), and Plane uses plane interlacing (RRRRRR...GGGGGG...BBBBBB...). Partition is like plane except the different planes are saved to individual files (e.g. image.R, image.G, and image.B).

Use Line, or Plane to create an interlaced GIF or progressive JPEG image.

 
>-label name
assign a label to an image.

Use this option to assign a specific label to the image. Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image attribute by embedding special format character. See -comment for details.

For example,
    -label "%m:%f %wx%h"
produces an image label of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480.
If the first character of string is @, the image label is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string.
When converting to PostScript, use this option to specify a header string to print above the image. Specify the label font with -font.
 
>-loop iterations
add Netscape loop extension to your GIF animation.
A value other than zero forces the animation to repeat itself up to iterations times.
 
>-map filename
choose a particular set of colors from this image.

By default, color reduction chooses an optimal set of colors that best represent the original image. Alternatively, you can choose a particular set of colors from an image file with this option. Use +map to reduce all images provided on the command line to a single optimal set of colors that best represent all the images.

 
>-matte
store matte channel if the image has one otherwise create an opaque one.
 
>-modulate value
vary the brightness, saturation, and hue of an image.

Specify the percent change in brightness, the color saturation, and the hue separated by commas. For example, to increase the color brightness by 20% and decrease the color saturation by 10% and leave the hue unchanged, use: -modulate 120,90.

 
>-median order
apply a median filter to the image. Good order values are odd numbers from 3 to 31
 
>-monochrome
transform the image to black and white.
 
>-morph frames
morphs an image sequence.

Both the image pixels and size are linearly interpolated to give the appearance of a meta-morphosis from one image to the next.

 
>-mosaic
create an mosaic from an image sequence.
 
>-negate
replace every pixel with its complementary color (white becomes black, yellow becomes blue, etc.).

The red, green, and blue intensities of an image are negated. Use +negate to only negate the grayscale pixels of the image.

 
>-noise value
add or reduce noise in an image.

The principal function of noise peak elimination filter is to smooth the objects within an image without losing edge information and without creating undesired structures. The central idea of the algorithm is to replace a pixel with its next neighbor in value within a pixel window, if this pixel has been found to be noise. A pixel is defined as noise if and only if this pixel is a maximum or minimum within the pixel window.

Use \fIorder\fP to specify the width of the neighborhood.

Use +noise followed by a noise type to add noise to an image. Choose from these noise types:

    Uniform
    Gaussian
    Multiplicative
    Impulse
    Laplacian
    Poisson
 
>-normalize
transform image to span the full range of color values.

This is a contrast enhancement technique.

 
>-opaque color
change this color to the pen color within the image.
See -fill for more details.
 
>-page <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>{%}{!}{<}{>}
size and location of an image canvas.

Use this option to specify the dimensions of the PostScript page in dots per inch or a TEXT page in pixels. The choices for a Postscript page are:

       11x17         792  1224 
       Ledger       1224   792    
       Legal         612  1008
       Letter        612   792
       LetterSmall   612   792
       ArchE        2592  3456
       ArchD        1728  2592
       ArchC        1296  1728
       ArchB         864  1296
       ArchA         648   864
       A0           2380  3368
       A1           1684  2380
       A2           1190  1684
       A3            842  1190
       A4            595   842
       A4Small       595   842
       A5            421   595
       A6            297   421
       A7            210   297
       A8            148   210
       A9            105   148
       A10            74   105
       B0           2836  4008
       B1           2004  2836
       B2           1418  2004
       B3           1002  1418
       B4            709  1002
       B5            501   709
       C0           2600  3677
       C1           1837  2600
       C2           1298  1837
       C3            918  1298
       C4            649   918
       C5            459   649
       C6            323   459
       Flsa          612   936 
       Flse          612   936
       HalfLetter    396   612
For convenience you can specify the page size by media (e.g. A4, Ledger, etc.). Otherwise, -page behaves much like -geometry (e.g. -page letter+43+43>).

To position a GIF image, use -page{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset> (e.g. -page "+1"00+200).

For a Postscript page, the image is sized as in -geometry and positioned relative to the lower left hand corner of the page by {+-}<xoffset>{+-}<y offset>. Use -page 612x792>, for example, to center the image within the page. If the image size exceeds the Postscript page, it is reduced to fit the page.

The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is 612x792.

This option is used in concert with -density.

 
>-paint radius
simulate an oil painting.

Each pixel is replaced by the most frequent color in a circular neighborhood whose width is specified with radius.

 
>-pause <seconds
the number of \fIseconds\fP to pause before repeating your animation sequence.
 
>-pointsize value
pointsize of the Postscript, X11, or TrueType font.
 
>-preview type
image preview type.

Use this option to affect the preview operation of an image (e.g. convert -preview Gamma Preview:gamma.png). Choose from these previews:

     Rotate
     Shear
     Roll
     Hue
     Saturation
     Brightness
     Gamma
     Spiff
     Dull
     Grayscale
     Quantize
     Despeckle
     ReduceNoise
     Add Noise
     Sharpen
     Blur
     Threshold
     EdgeDetect
     Spread
     Shade
     Raise
     Segment
     Solarize
     Swirl
     Implode
     Wave
     OilPaint
     CharcoalDrawing
     JPEG
The default preview is JPEG.
 
>-profile filename
add ICM color or IPTC newswire information profile to image.

Use +profile icm or +profile iptc to remove the respective profile.

 
>-quality value
JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level.

For the JPEG image format, quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best). The default quality is 75.

Quality for the MIFF and PNG image format sets the amount of image compression (quality / 10) and filter-type (quality % 10). Compression quality values range from 0 (worst) to 100 (best). If filter-type is 4 or less, the specified filter-type is used for all scanlines:
    0: none
    1: sub
    2: up
    3: average
    4: Paeth

If filter-type is 5, adaptive filtering is used when quality is greater than 50 and the image does not have a color map, otherwise no filtering is used.

If filter-type is 6 or more, adaptive filtering with minimum-sum-of-absolute-values is used.

The default is quality is 75. Which means nearly the best compression with adaptive filtering.

For further information, see the PNG specification.
 
>-raise <width>x<height>
lighten or darken image edges to create a 3-D effect. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification.

Use -raise to create a raised effect, otherwise use +raise.

 
>-region <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>
apply options to a portion of the image.

By default, any command line options are applied to the entire image. Use -region to restrict operations to a particular area of the image.

 
>-roll {+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>
roll an image vertically or horizontally. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification.

A negative x offset rolls the image left-to-right. A negative y offset rolls the image top-to-bottom.

 
>-rotate degrees{<}{>}
apply Paeth image rotation to the image.

Use > to rotate the image only if its width exceeds the height. < rotates the image only if its width is less than the height. For example, if you specify -90> and the image size is 480x640, the image is not rotated by the specified angle. However, if the image is 640x480, it is rotated by -90 degrees.

Empty triangles left over from rotating the image are filled with the color defined as bordercolor (class borderColor). See X(1) for details.

 
>-sample geometry
scale image with pixel sampling. See -geometry for details about the geometry specification.
 
>-scene value
image scene number.
 
>-seed value
pseudo-random number generator seed value.
 
>-segment <cluster threshold>x<smoothing threshold>
segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique.

Specify cluster threshold as the number of pixels in each cluster must exceed the the cluster threshold to be considered valid. Smoothing threshold eliminates noise in the second derivative of the histogram. As the value is increased, you can expect a smoother second derivative. The default is 1.5. See Image Segmentation for details.

 
>-shade <azimuth>x<elevation>
shade the image using a distant light source.

Specify azimuth and elevation as the position of the light source. Use +shade to return the shading results as a grayscale image. image.
 
>-sharpen <radius>x<sigma>
sharpen the image with a gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).
 
>-shear <x degrees>x<y degrees>
shear the image along the X or Y axis by a positive or negative shear angle.

Shearing slides one edge of an image along the X or Y axis, creating a parallelogram. An X direction shear slides an edge along the X axis, while a Y direction shear slides an edge along the Y axis. The amount of the shear is controlled by a shear angle. For X direction shears, x degrees is measured relative to the Y axis, and similarly, for Y direction shears y degrees is measured relative to the X axis.

Empty triangles left over from shearing the image are filled with the color defined as bordercolor (class borderColor). See X(1) for details.

 
>-size <width>x<height>{+offset}
width and height of the image.

Use this option to specify the width and height of raw images whose dimensions are unknown such as GRAY, RGB, or CMYK. In addition to width and height, use -size to skip any header information in the image or tell the number of colors in a MAP image file, (e.g. -size 640x512+256).

For Photo CD images, choose from these sizes:

   192x128
   384x256
   768x512
   1536x1024
   3072x2048
Finally, use this option to choose a particular resolution layer of a JBIG or JPEG image (e.g. -size 1024x768).
 
>-solarize factor
negate all pixels above the threshold level. Specify factor as the percent threshold of the intensity (0 - 99.9%).

This option produces a solarization effect seen when exposing a photographic film to light during the development process.
 
>-spread amount
displace image pixels by a random amount.

Amount defines the size of the neighborhood around each pixel to choose a candidate pixel to swap.
 
>-stroke color
color to use when stroking a graphic primitive. See -draw for further details.
 
>-strokewidth value
set the stroke width. See -draw for further details.
 
>-swirl degrees
swirl image pixels about the center.

Degrees defines the tightness of the swirl.
 
>-transparent color
make this color transparent within the image.
 
>-texture filename
name of texture to tile onto the image background.
 
>-threshold value
threshold the image.

Create a bi-level image such that any pixel intensity that is equal or exceeds the threshold is reassigned the maximum intensity otherwise the minimum intensity.
 
>-tile filename
tile image when filling a graphic primitive.
 
>-treedepth value
Normally, this integer value is zero or one. A zero or one tells display to choose an optimal tree depth for the color reduction algorithm.

An optimal depth generally allows the best representation of the source image with the fastest computational speed and the least amount of memory. However, the default depth is inappropriate for some images. To assure the best representation, try values between 2 and 8 for this parameter. Refer to quantize for more details.

The -colors or -monochrome option is required for this option to take effect.
 
>-type type
the image type: Bilevel, Grayscale, Palette, PaletteMatte, TrueColor, TrueColorMatte, or ColorSeparation.
 
>-units type
the type of image resolution: Undefined, PixelsPerInch, or PixelsPerCentimeter.
 
>-verbose
print detailed information about the image.

This information is printed: image scene number; image name; image size; the image class (DirectClass or PseudoClass); the total number of unique colors; and the number of seconds to read and transform the image. Refer to miff for a description of the image class.

If -colors is also specified, the total unique colors in the image and color reduction error values are printed. Refer to quantize for a description of these values.
 
>-view string
FlashPix viewing paramters.
 
>-wave <amplitude>x<wavelength>
alter an image along a sine wave.

Specify amplitude and wavelength to effect the characteristics of the wave.

By default, the image format is determined by its magic number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e.ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix

When you specify X as your image type, the filename has special meaning. It specifies an X window by id, name, or root. If no filename is specified, the window is selected by clicking the mouse in the desired window.

Specify input_file as - for standard input, output_file as - for standard output. If input_file has the extension .Z or .gz, the file is uncompressed with uncompress or gunzip respectively. If output_file has the extension .Z or .gz, the file size is compressed using with compress or gzip respectively. Finally, precede the image file name with | to pipe to or from a system command.

Use an optional index enclosed in brackets after a file name to specify a desired subimage of a multi-resolution image format like Photo CD (e.g. img0001.pcd[4]) or a range for MPEG images (e.g. video.mpg[50-75]). A subimage specification can be disjoint (e.g. image.tiff[2,7,4]). For raw images, specify a subimage with a geometry (e.g. -size 640x512 image.rgb[320x256+50+50]).

Single images are written with the filename you specify. However, multi-part images (i.e. a multi-page PostScript document with +adjoin specified) are written with the filename followed by a period (.) and the scene number. You can change this behavior by embedding a printf format specification in the file name. For example,

image%02d.miff

converts files image00.miff, image01.miff, etc.

Prepend an at sign @ to a filename to read a list of image filenames from that file. This is convenient in the event you have too many image filenames to fit on the command line.

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>Image Segmentation
Use -segment to segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique. The scale-space filter analyzes the histograms of the three color components of the image and identifies a set of classes. The extents of each class is used to coarsely segment the image with thresholding. The color associated with each class is determined by the mean color of all pixels within the extents of a particular class. Finally, any unclassified pixels are assigned to the closest class with the fuzzy c-means technique.

The fuzzy c-Means algorithm can be summarized as follows:

The fuzzy c-Means technique attempts to cluster a pixel by finding the local minima of the generalized within group sum of squared error objective function. A pixel is assigned to the closest class of which the fuzzy membership has a maximum value.

For additional information see:

Young Won Lim, Sang Uk Lee, "On The Color Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on the Thresholding and the Fuzzy c-Means Techniques", Pattern Recognition, Volume 23, Number 9, pages 935-952, 1990.
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>Environment
 
>DISPLAY
To get the default host, display number, and screen.
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>Authors
John Cristy, magick@wizards.dupont.comImageMagick Studio.
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>Copyright
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