Beginner tutorials?

[marzmurphy]

Hi all,

I just wanted to ask a very basic question. Image magick has come preinstalled on my server at location user/local/bin. As such I would like to be able to upload images onto a forum and manipulate them using imagemagick. Im trying to follow tutorials but am unsure how to target this pre installed imagemagick, and how I might get the interface, or command line tool working(im hoping to use PHP) ...could anyone explain it in simple terms how it works, or point me in the direction of a very basic tutorial(other than than imagemagick .org) as i know Im getting confused with the whole thing, and its undoubtley pretty awesome once I figure out exactly whats going on.

Any help/advise would be greatly greatly appreciated!!!

Kind rgrds,

Marz

[Bonzo]

Anthony has some examples here: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#php

I have some examples here: http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/

[anthony]

For basic command line start by reading the top level page
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
then proceed into IM Examples, Basics
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/

This defines how the command line works, and gives a simple step by step example of how images are processed..
ImageMagick Examples, Working Example of an IM Command
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#example

From their you can progress to the various sections you are interested in, with its cross references to related sections. Best idea is to read a section from the top downward, trying the examples on your own machine, with images you have, or download from the Example Pages.