ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 90 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, or from the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming languages. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. ImageMagick's focus is on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs.

Bei solchen eierlegenden Wollmichsäuen ist es ja manchmal schwierig sich aufzuraffen, um das Ganze mal anzutesten. Die Seite ImageMagick Examples bietet ein paar Copy-n-Paste Beispiele für den schnellen Einstieg. Oder man schaut direkt bei BigBlue vorbei: Graphics from the command line