SOLVED - montage - only get first frame of multi-image files?

[teracow]

Hello,

When using montage, I tend to run it on all images (of various types) in the current directory to build a thumbnail gallery to give me an idea as to what that directory holds.

If one (or more) of those images is an animated GIF, montage inserts all the individual frames into the gallery image. Sometimes, this single GIF can be the majority of the gallery image. Thus, the gallery is not representative of the image directory.

Is there a way I can have it only include the first image frame and ignore the rest whenever it encounters multi-image files?

Thanks.

[fmw42]

specify image.gif[0]

That will select the first frame (numbered from 0)

You can add [0] to all your images, even if they only have one frame/page/layer.

See selecting frames at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... essing.php

In the future, please always provide your IM version and platform, since syntax may be different.

[teracow]

Thanks fred.

ImageMagick 6.8.9-8 Q16 x86_64 2016-05-05
on OpenSUSE 13.2 64b

[teracow]

So, instead of:

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$ montage * output.png

I'm now using:

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$ montage *[0] output.png

which is correctly grabbing only the first frame of each image.

Thanks!