• Basics
• ImageMagick setup details
• Colours available
• Command paths
• Fonts available
• Imagemagick version
• Image information
• Detailed setup information
• What is ImageMagick?
• What is Imagick?
• Windows Batch files
• Some basic installation instructions
• Installation information for Linux/Unix
• Installation information for Mac
• Installation information for Windows
• Installation information for XAMPP on a windows PC
• Examples of how to write ImageMagick code
• Examples of all the operators


• Examples
• Example with detailed explanations
• Overlaid image
• Watermark
• Overlapped photos
• A selection of other examples
• Artistic modifications
• Distort examples
• Draw examples
• Some montage option examples
• Other examples
• Text examples
• PSD notes
• Resize examples including crop
• Watermarking examples
• Improving a photos colours and contrast
• Resize and filters
• A working example
• Some simple GD example code


• Code
• Full codes including forms
• Create thumbnails of all the images in a directory
• Add an effect to an image on its upload
• Add a text watermark to an image on its upload
• Resize an image on upload
• Watermark multiple images on upload


• Compare
• Some comparisons between ImageMagick and GD


• Information
• Notes and tips
• Colours
• Display the image without saving it
• Displaying errors
• Font styling
• Gravity
• How to format the code
• Print size
• Save an image property into a variable
• Useful information
• Variables
• Wordwrap
• Shell bash example
• Some speed tests
• How to avoid tempory images
• Display the -debug information
• Useful links


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ImageMagick

ImageMagick is an external program that can be called from php and in the following pages you can find some examples, tips and tricks on how to use it with php.

There are APIs to use ImageMagick but I tend to use the php exec function along with the command line method as I find it gives more flexability.

I have also included a few examples of the GD library that is built into php and one of the php APIs called Imagick. Do not confuse Imagick with ImageMagick !