Image Illustration with ImageMagick?

Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
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snibgo
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Re: Image Illustration with ImageMagick?

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Yes, IM can be used for illustrating. However, it isn't interactive. There are no buttons or sliders. Instead, you drive it by typing command lines, or from scripts, or compiled programs. This makes it quite hard to learn but extremely powerful. You can do very complex sequences of operations, and easily repeat them on different images.

You can get ideas on what IM can do, and how to do it, from the usage pages: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

The main reference page for the command options is: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... ptions.php
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Re: Image Illustration with ImageMagick?

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Where is the original post?

By the way, for new users who want to test IM, they might try the interactive web-based JqMagick at jqmagick.imagemagick.org
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Re: Image Illustration with ImageMagick?

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The OP vanished. An illustrator who used Adobe tools had heard that IM might be useful.
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