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Imagemagick is a command line tool that you can use to manipulate images.

Create GIF animations from image sequences, resize images, screen captures and more.

Date Created:Friday December 29th, 2006 03:41 AM
Date Modified:Monday May 10th, 2010 06:47 PM

SCREEN CAPTURE

xwininfo this can be used to get information about a window you can get the target windows hexadecimal ID number which can be useful for a screen cap example:

import -window import -window 0x2800011 screencap.miff
display screencap.miff
convert screencap.miff newpic.jpg

Instead of using the hexidecimal ID of a window, use root to grab the whole desktop

import -window root all.miff

CAPTURE USING IMAGEMAGICK

x=1
while [ "$x" -le "$2" ]
do
  import -window $1 "screencap$x.miff"
# sleep 2s  
  let x+=1
done

CONVERT USING IMAGEMAGICK

for x in `ls`
do
 y=`echo $x | sed 's/miff/jpg/g'`
 convert $x $y
 rm $x
done

PLAYBACK

animate -delay 20 *.jpg

CONVERT TO GIF

convert -delay 20 *.jpg capture.gif

Convert a series of portable pixel maps (ppm) to png and then create an animated gif.

for x in `ls *ppm`;
do
convert $x ${x//.ppm}.png
done

convert -set delay 1 -colors 16 -dispose 1 -loop 0 -scale 50% *.png Output.gif

You can also use mpg.

ADD TEXT TO AN IMAGE

mogrify -fill red -pointsize 45 -draw 'text 100,200 "THIS IS COOL" ' *.jpg

MAKE NEW IMAGE AND RESIZE IT

montage -fill red -pointsize 45 -draw 'text 200,300 " THIS IS COOL" ' -geometry 320x240 cap1.jpg capture.jpg

CROPPING, APPENDING, COMPOSITING

convert -crop 75x53+0+53 $1 ${1//.png}-bot.png
convert -crop 75x53 $2 ${2//.png}-top.png
convert -append ${1//.png}-bot.png ${2//.png}-top.png ${1//.png}-user.png

convert -append top.png bottom.png half/c6-user.png
composite -compose multiply back-blue.png pngs/c6.png mult/c6-user.png
convert -crop 75x53 pngs/c7.png top.png

Downloads:

Download: xwininfo.txt 983 B

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Imagemagick by Dan Lynch
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