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I'm currently working on a large web-based project that allows users to create customized designs for personal use. A lot of the designs contain a graphic text logo + slogan that we need to be able to edit quickly. Is ImageMagick able to handle this, if so how would I go about implementing it?

IM does not handle layers as in Photoshop.

IM allows you to have multiple layers but they are stored as frames or pages. To view the image, you ultimately have to flatten all the frames (layers) into one image or composite frame. You can keep a version of the image with multiple layers or frames, but that per se is not viewable. So you have to have one for storage for later processing and one that has been flattened for viewing or flatten it just before you display it. Any IM frame can be separated and processed and recombined. Much of that kind of thing is explained under animations at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

The IM experts can correct me if I am wrong.

Perhaps you can give us an example of what you are doing and how you would modify it later.

Photoshop files with normal graphics layers can be displayed in IM, but the first frame of the file will generally contain the flattened layers and that would be what you would display. However, you can separate all the layers into individual images.