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Use ImageMagick<sup><ahref="http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78333969">®</a></sup> to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of <ahref="formats.html">formats</a> (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, <ahref="motion-picture.html">DPX</a>, <ahref="high-dynamic-range.html">EXR</a>, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. ImageMagick can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.</p>
<p>ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may use, copy, modify, and distribute in both open and proprietary applications. It is distributed under a derived Apache 2.0 <ahref="license.html">license</a>.</p>
<p>ImageMagick utilizes multiple computational threads to increase performance and can read, process, or write mega-, giga-, or tera-pixel image sizes.</p>
<p>The current release is ImageMagick <ahref="download.html">6.9.11-59</a>. It runs on <ahref="download.html#unix">Linux</a>, <ahref="download.html#windows">Windows</a>, <ahref="download.html#macosx">Mac Os X</a>, <ahref="download.html#iOS">iOS</a>, <ahref="https://github.com/cherryleafroad/Android-ImageMagick7">Android</a> OS, and others.</p>
<p>The authoritative ImageMagick version 6 web site is <ahref="../index.html">https://legacy.imagemagick.org</a>. The authoritative source code repository is <ahref="https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6"target="_blank">https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6</a>. Find the latest release of ImageMagick, version 7, at <ahref="../">https://imagemagick.org</a>.</p>
<p>The design of ImageMagick is an evolutionary process, with the design and implementation efforts serving to influence and guide further progress in the other. With <ahref="../">ImageMagick version 7</a>, we aim to improve the design based on lessons learned from the version 6 implementation.</p>
<h2><aclass="anchor"id="features"></a>Features and Capabilities</h2>
<p>Here are just a few <ahref="examples.html">examples</a> of what ImageMagick can do for you:</p>
<td>certain algorithms are <ahref="opencl.html">OpenCL</a>-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups offered by executing in concert across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.</td>
<td>accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows.</td>
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<td><ahref="fx.html">Image calculator</a></td>
<td>apply a mathematical expression to an image, image sequence, or image channels.</td>
<td>map visually identical images to the same or similar hash-- useful in image retrieval, authentication, indexing, or copy detection as well as digital watermarking.</td>
<td>blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image.</td>
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<td><ahref="https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/">Text & comments</a></td>
<td>insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.</td>
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<td><ahref="architecture.html#threads">Threads of execution support</a></td>
<td>ImageMagick is thread safe and most internal algorithms execute in <ahref="openmp.html">parallel</a> to take advantage of speed-ups offered by multicore processor chips.</td>
<td>convenient access to pixels outside the image boundaries.</td>
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<p><ahref="https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/"target="_blank">Examples of ImageMagick Usage</a> shows how to use ImageMagick from the <ahref="command-line-processing.html">command-line</a> to accomplish any of these tasks and much more. Also, see <ahref="http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/"target="_blank">Fred's ImageMagick Scripts</a>: a plethora of command-line scripts that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal, and color manipulations. With <ahref="https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET">Magick.NET</a>, use ImageMagick without having to install ImageMagick on your server or desktop. Finally, see <ahref="http://im.snibgo.com/">Snibgo's ImageMagick Cookbook</a> for Windows-based ImageMagick scripting.</p>
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