ImageMagick for Windows

User Reviews

• Works exactly as advertised.

  DraKarelMarch 12, 2013

  Pros

  This is a powerful set of API's and tools with a friendly licence agreement and no nonsense. Use this for a simple, open image processing API.

  Cons

  ActiveX registration is seemingly always problematic.

  Summary

  I will list this among contributions such as SQLite in terms of usefulness and pervasiveness all accross the web world. Keep it up, youre doing good.

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• Lousy program

  NotDemOrRepMay 30, 2012

  Pros

  Absolutely NONE!

  Cons

  does not work. WTH does "command line" mean when it comes to working with an image? Total waste of my time and computer resources.

  Summary

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• The Swiss Army knife of command-line image processing.

  obeythepenguinAugust 27, 2011

  Pros

  ImageMagick provides a powerful set of tools for non-interactive image processing on the command line and through its application programming interface.

  Cons

  The included graphical interface is rudimentary at best.

  Summary

  I'm writing this mostly to clear up any misconceptions users might have about this software. ImageMagick is indeed a powerful and robust collection of tools; however, its strength is on the command line, not in its graphical interface. ImageMagick will not replace a program like Photoshop for interactive image manipulation, but it will come in handy for batch-converting between image file formats, automatically generating thumbnails on a website, and other such "behind-the-scenes" tasks. (It's capable of much more, too; take a look at the included documentation for many more examples.) ImageMagick is not something most people will ever need to use, but if you ever have to process a large number of images in bulk, it is an absolute godsend. If Photoshop is a paintbrush, think of ImageMagick as a printing press; it's not really a tool for careful refinement, but it's by far the more practical choice for mass production.

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• Do they just make this stuff up, without reviewing it?

  VanillamanMarch 16, 2011

  Pros

  Nothing. It has barely any features at all.

  Cons

  "robust collection of tools?" Really? Folks, this is yet another scam that CNET has let slip. This is almost exactly the same as Notepad, with fewer, (if any) features.

  Summary

  Scam. Featureless. The publishers description above is fake.

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