Image Magick Utilities

Some useful IM tools for those (like me) who can't remember all the commands.

• imageColorQuantize
• imageDirToAnimatedGif
• imageRemoveBgWhite
• imageRemoveBgWhiteBatch
• imageResize
• imageResizeBatch
• imageToPng
• imageToPngBatch

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imageColorQuantize

• Takes an image and quantise the number of colors
• Usage: ./imageColorQuantize FILENAME NUMCOLORS
• Example: ./imageColorQuantize colorWheel.png 8

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imageDirToAnimatedGif

• Takes a directory and compiles an animated gif
• Usage: ./imageDirToAnimatedGif DELAY DIRPATH
• *Example: ./imageDirToAnimatedGif 20 ~*

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imageRemoveBgWhite

• Takes an image and removes white background (with 5% fuzz)
• To reach all edges, this creates a white border, floodfills, and removes border.
• Usage: ./imageRemoveBgWhite FILENAME
• Example: ./imageRemoveBgWhite image.png

imageRemoveBgWhiteBatch

• Run imageRemoveBgWhite on all images in directory
• Usage: ./imageRemoveBgWhiteBatch DIRPATH
• *Example: ./imageRemoveBgWhiteBatch ~*

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imageResize

• Downsize an image
• Usage: ./imageResize WIDTH HEIGHT FILENAME
• Example: ./imageResize 320 480 image.png

imageResizeBatch

• Run imageResize on all images in directory
• Usage: ./imageResizeBatch WIDTH HEIGHT DIRPATH
• *Example: ./imageResizeBatch 320 480 ~*

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imageToPng

• Converts an image to PNG
• This will also clean image metadata (comments, PNG-chunk data, etc)
• Usage: ./imageToPng FILENAME
• Example: ./imageToPng image.png

imageToPngBatch

• Run imageToPng on all images in directory
• Usage: ./imageToPngBatch DIRPATH
• *Example: ./imageToPngBatch ~*