Interactive image editing with journaling

[PaulAThompson]

In the world of image manipulation, there are many interactive tools (GIMP, Photoshop, etc), which use a WYSIWYG editing approach. There is also ImageMagick which uses a scripting approach.

Is there any interactive editor which also outputs ImageMagick code which can then be saved for later re-use?

[Bonzo]

Not that I know of but there are two people working on Imagemagick GUI programs.

The first one is only 64bit and I only have a 32bit PC so I have not tried it. I can not remember where the thread is but you could search for it. There did not seem a lot of interest in his posts and he did not make many more posts. It was Alan Hadley from the combine ZP software and you could contact him as from memory he was looking for people to try it: http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

This year there were some posts from somebody else trying it but he has not posted since - again try searching the forum.

There is some other software NIP2 or something I tried but it was a bit longwinded as was a program called picturetweeker which seems to have disapeared.

Imagemagick is not to hard to learn unless you want to do something realy fancy but there are people here to help.

[PaulAThompson]

Yes, the forum is very helpful, and persons like yourself seem quite willing to pitch in and lend a hand.

It comes down to the learning curve, and getting people to be interested. I work with a bunch of bench scientists, and am trying to get a reproducible tool for them to run to get the same thing every time. If they could do the interactive step, and then have a journaled output, that could be preserved as the code to get B from A.

[fmw42]

In unix (Linux/Mac OSX), you can display the image

display logo:

and then left click on the image and a menu-driven GUI opens from which you can process IM. However, I do not know if it presents the command line commands.

Also you can process IM from a web based application, see
http://www.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio ... Studio.cgi

also a flash based web gui
http://www.designconsult.nl/imagemagick/

see also
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Nip2
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/support ... guide.html
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS

[Bonzo]

I had forgotten about magick studio and the flash site does not work for me in IE or Firefox.

[fmw42]

I had forgotten about magick studio and the flash site does not work for me in IE or Firefox.

I think ImageMagick Studio has been moved to http://www.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio ... Studio.cgi

The flash site works fine for me on my Mac in both Safari and Firefox.

[Bonzo]

Thats strange as all I get is an image the same size converted to yellows ( negated? ) with every option I try both at home and work.

[fmw42]

I believe that it is using IM 7. Perhaps you should report this on the bugs forum. (I may have the link wrong.)