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I'm using Windows 7 and ImageMagick version is 6.8-7.6 Q16 x64 2013-11-07.

I thought my query was still relevant to the older thread because although the solution of looping over directories was mentioned, there was no indication of how that should be done.

Could someone provide the code for looping through directories? I'd like to convert my (40 GB total!) uncompressed TIFFs to LWZ-compressed TIFFs but maintaining directory structure/hierarchy.

The GIMP has a mode for overlaying images on each other called "grain merge". Does ImageMagick have an equivalent to this, perhaps named differently?

Thanks very much Bonzo

I'm trying to understand some commands on this page: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#hardlight It says convert rose: -fill gray50 -colorize 100% \ -raise 4 -normalize -blur 0x4 lighting_effect.png convert rose: lighting_effect.png \ -compose hardlight -composite compose_hardlight.png and I ...

A friend of mine wrote the following batch file to automatically arrange my pictures for printing which is otherwise a tiresome chore. The process takes the images (of which there are five categories (I select among them when running the batch file) and arranges eight to each page, putting the name ...

C:\redacted>convert *.png *.jpg convert.exe: unable to open image `*-0.jpg': Invalid argument @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2643. C:\redacted>convert 11-2013_1808_1.png 11-2013_1808_1.jpg C:\redacted>convert *.png *.jpg C:\redacted> The target "*.jpg" is incorrect. First attempt: *.jpg does not exist so ...

Below are the commands and output from my attempt to convert some PNGs to JPG. I just had six images named 11-2013_1808_1, 11-2013_1808_2 etc. The first attempt fails with an error. In the second attempt, I specify the complete filename of the first file and the JPG is created as expected. In the ...