Label each panel in a montage

[taxisaga]

Version: ImageMagick 7.0.7-39 Q16 x86_64 2018-06-11
EDIT: Platform macOS

I'd like to use the montage command to create a single image where each panel has its own different text label.

I'm more familiar with the -draw "text.." command than the -label command, but I dismissed the -label command as not for me because the examples site showed the results as a sort of extra panel at the bottom. I will use -draw or -label or whatever is recommended. What I want is shown here with both an incorrect and a correct result in the two different images:

https://imgur.com/a/5E46bFP

EDIT: Although my boiled-down code examples below use xc:color, in real life I am doing this with image files as input, not just xc:color. I think that should not change the answer though.

Here's what I tried (in bash shell script form):

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# bad result
montage -geometry 200x200 -gravity center -stroke none -fill white -pointsize 48 \
    xc:blue -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 1"' \
    xc:red -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 2"' \
    xc:yellow -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 3"' \
    xc:purple -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 4"' \
    xc:green -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 5"' \
    xc:black -draw 'text 0,0 "Panel 6"' \
    -mode concatenate -tile 3x2 using-montage-alone.jpg

I can get the results I want by first using convert to make temporary labeled images, and then using montage to combine those temporary images, like this:

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# good result
spec="-geometry 200x200 -gravity center -stroke none -fill white -pointsize 48"
for color in {blue,red,yellow,purple,green,black}; do
    panel_number=$((panel_number + 1))
    text_spec="text 0,0 'Panel "$panel_number"'"
    convert xc:$color $spec -draw "$text_spec" panel-$panel_number.jpg
done
montage panel-{1..6}.jpg  -mode concatenate -tile 3x2 resorting-to-convert-first-then-montage.jpg

So yes I will do that in the meantime. But my question is, can this be done with montage alone? And how?

[fmw42]

In IM 7, you need to preface montage with magick, so

magick montage ....

Try this:

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magick montage \
-gravity center -stroke none -fill white -pointsize 48 \
-size 200x200 \
\( xc:blue -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 1'" \) \
\( xc:red -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 2'" \) \
\( xc:yellow -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 3'" \) \
\( xc:purple -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 4'" \) \
\( xc:green -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 5'" \) \
\( xc:black -draw "text 0,0 'Panel 6'" \) \
-mode concatenate -tile 3x2 using-montage-alone.jpg

That works for me on IM 7.0.8.5 Q16 Mac OSX Sierra

[taxisaga]

Thanks! That works great for me too.

[fmw42]

P.S. I think the issue you had was that you needed to use parentheses to keep the text from accumulating over itself. Also I generally do not recommend using -geometry for resizing in montage, only for spacing.

[taxisaga]

That parens trick is new to me. Very useful, thanks. And -geometry versus -size always confused me. I'll get it one of these days!

Also btw it seems stuff still works on my system without the magick preface, but I take it things are heading that direction so I'll start updating scripts to use that.

[fmw42]

Do you have both IM 6 and IM 7 on your system? If so, then leaving off the magick and using just montage would work using IM 6.

About parentheses, see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#parenthesis