Book review: ImageMagick Tricks
Command-line utilities can be powerful, but it takes some doing to make a typical desktop user work in the shell. The image manipulation program ImageMagick is one command-line program that gives users a good reason to use the CLI. Now Packt Publishing has released ImageMagick Tricks, a book that covers ImageMagick from the ground up. If you've never used ImageMagick before, this book is a good starting place.
The book is written in British English. Its 10 chapters are loaded with black-and-white image illustrations. While most of the illustrated effects can be understood, a few examples that deal with 3-D effects such as shadows fail to get the point across. But an archive of all the screenshots is available for download, along with the code examples in the book.
The chapters are divided into workshops and how-to sections. Introduction to every ImageMagick utility begins with its usage syntax and a complete listing of its options.
After an initial introductory chapter on ImageMagick's nine core utilities and its application programming interfaces (API), which allow ImageMagick utilities to be used from within scripting languages such as PHP and Perl, author Sohail Salehi devotes a chapter to help readers get the software installed.
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