Place image on a grid

[Hashirun]

Hey guys,

is it possible in ImageMagick to place images in another image in specific grids? Please see the attached image, so the explanation makes more sense. So lets say I have 4 images and want to place each of them in one of the squares in the grid. I would want to fill each square with the given images.

Is that somehow possible? The version of ImageMagick does not matter. I would be using `Python`.

[fmw42]

Yes it is possible. You have several choices in command line mode:

1) use montage (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/)

2) use a combination of convert ... -resize -compose over -composite ... (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert)

See Python at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php for choices of API

[Hashirun]

Great! Montage looks exactly what I was looking for. ImageMagick is so huge, sometimes its hard to fine the correct function. Thanks again, I'll look into montage!

[glennrp]

I generally use convert with the "draw image" option, which I find easier to understand. It's just

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-draw "image x,y w,h file.png"

where x and y are the location and w and h are the dimensions of the image being placed. You can have multiple instances of "-draw {options]" on the commandline.

[Hashirun]

Great, I might have to look into

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-draw [options]

since the montage option is not available for the Python APIs as far as I've seen.