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It is useful for those are new to ImageMagick, or for those who find learning how to do something by matching an example image to command line arguments, easier than dry textual descriptions.
Relevance to free software The books details only the free software angles, which extends to the development of delegates in the later chapters.
The definitive guide to ImageMagick / Michael Still – Details – Trove
The book gives pointers to external advanced discussions which should have featured in the book. Also, using black and white photographs to demonstrate colour image manipulation should have been consigned to the last century.
It then works through each option individually and supplements each with at least one full example, covering most of its available options with before and after images. This book details the functionality of the ImageMagick package primarily convertby covering its command line usage, along with most of the valid options available and example images depicting the before and after effects. The books details only the free software angles, which extends to the development of delegates in the later chapters.
Book review: The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick by Michael Still
It begins slowly by describing the installation process and touches on the source package. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
Cons There are equally useful on-line tutorials many written by the same author and manual pages written on the ImageMagick commands that make the book less than it should have been. It enables you to start experimenting, but little more. The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick covers everything a beginner would want to begin using ImageMagick from imagemgick command line.
Again, this is limited to a cursory explanation, and several pages of source code. The author favours instead a basic run through of the various commands and how they should be used. It appears to be more of a cookbook than textbook, which is no bad thing in itself, but is different to what I was expecting.
License Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. The explanations guire good and easy to read, albeit sparse.
This is intended for casual users and beginners who want to learn the possibilities of ImageMagick from the command line. This is brief and neither useful in the context of a cookbook, nor in-depth enough for a full-blown article.
There are equally useful on-line tutorials many written by the same author and manual pages written on the ImageMagick commands that make the book guidde than it should have been. The tone is light and informal throughout, and you do feel that there is a lot to be discovered with ImageMagick.