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The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Definitive Guides (Hardcover)) 1st ed. Edition

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An open source project backed by years of continual development, ImageMagick supports over 90 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch, changing colors, stretching, rotating, and overlaying images, and overlaying text on images. Whether you use ImageMagick to manage the family photos or to embark on a job involving millions of images, this book will provide you with the knowledge to manage your images with ease.

The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick explains all of these capabilities and more in a practical, learn-by-example fashion. You'll get comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Through the books coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you'll learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.

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    1590595904
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    978-1590595909
  3. Edition
    1st ed.
  4. Publisher
    Apress
  5. Publication date
    December 20, 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.24 x 1.13 x 9.34 inches
  8. Print length
    359 pages
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Michael Still released his first open source project in July 2000 and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a tux out of fairy lights! He is the author of The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Apress, 2005). Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia, and now works for Google and lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (December 20, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 359 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590595904
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590595909
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.24 x 1.13 x 9.34 inches
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Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. He is the author of the recently published "Definitive Guide to ImageMagick" from Apress. His gym program states his exercise goal as "develop laser death vision". Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia but now lives and works in Silicon Valley for Google with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.

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  • Terminus
    3.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing, but disappointing
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2006
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    ImageMagick is an extremely powerful, free, command-line image editor that has been around a while and is the preferred tool of many for dynamically creating images for the web. However, like many open-source projects, ImageMagick's weakness has always been poor documentation.

    So I was excited when I saw there was finally a guide to ImageMagick, and ordered the book hot off the presses.

    I have to say, though, I'm disappointed.

    I was hoping for a book with a good command reference, tips and tricks, sample uses, and that sort of thing. Instead, it is a very basic introduction to ImageMagick.

    The book is very graphical in nature, with about 75% of virtually every page filled by an image, and only a little text. The images, while a little useful, are probably larger than they need to be, and almost seem to be filler making up for the lack of text. They are also all black and white images, which makes them in some cases useless (i.e. "Figure 6-29. Alcatraz with varying levels of hue" depicts 4 essentially identical images - without color, you can't tell that one has less hue than another). For a book of this price, I would expect color photos.

    As a result, the book feels very sparse, with little information on each page.

    The last few chapters, which show code examples of how to use ImageMagick in several popular programming languages, are more in line with the sort of practical examples I was expecting, although this section feels short.

    So overall, a decent *introduction* to ImageMagick, but I think calling it "Definitive" is a bit undeserved. It is the only game in town though, since for some reason no one else has written a book on ImageMagick. If you have already used ImageMagick, this book is only marginally useful.

    I'll have to keep hoping O'Reilly does one, and does it right.
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  • Erkki Ollikainen
    2.0 out of 5 stars Very lightweight book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2013
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    There was marginally different kind examples and cases in the book. The example photos and pictures were black and white quality. I don't find nothing new for my needs, for examples: text effects, text to circle or ellipse, etc.
    The book is year 2005, time is went over this book.
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  • Daniel F. Oreilly
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Start
    Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2011
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    I'm looking forward to the second edition of the book. Hope to see "convert" able to handle html content, with doc in the book. (Probably not trivial.) Would also like to see more color examples and more complicated API examples in the book.
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  • AngularDev
    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing. Needs Color & more emphasis on Perl & APIs
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2006
    This was disappointing. The emphasis of the book is on the ImageMagick commandline tools rather than the APIs. There are a lot of photographs but they're all black and white. The before and after samples are worse than useless - they just take up space. It's probably not the Author's fault.

    Apress (the publishers) should really have done this book properly and included glossy color pages where needed. As it stands, it's impossible to tell from looking at the before-and-after photos in the book, what most of the image operations are supposed to do. This is just cheap on the part of the publishers.

    Stick to the online imagemagick tutorials and give this book a miss.
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  • carlos
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction AND poor as well
    Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2008
    This book is a good introduction into ImageMagick. Nevertheless I find it disappointing there is not even one single colored image printed in there. This book discusses different image manipulation functions on color images and only shows B/W images.
    I would have appreciated this information in the product presentation. Really poor
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  • Dan McKinnon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Introduction To ImageMagick
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2006
    'The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick' by Michael Still is a nice guide which covers an extremely powerful set of tools that is lacking in documentation. Note that I say the word 'nice' and not GREAT. I wanted this to be great, I truly did. I use ImageMagick on a nearly daily basis and while I thought I knew I knew the ins and outs of this application pretty well, I was hoping that I could get some more out of this book, the only one of its kind on the market that I knew of.

    Problem #1 NO COLOR IMAGES!!!!

    How can you have a guide that covers manipulating and using images and provide no color examples when there are tons of other books the get away from the 3 colors of white, black and grey?? I realize that this was a decision made by the higher ups at Apress and it's a bad, bad, bad decision

    Problem #2 At just over 300 pages and with some images (again, black and white) and cover nearly and entire page in size, this guide is certainly not DEFINITIVE. If you want to make a definitive guide, you need to have more content, more content, more content. More like 'An Introduction to ImageMagick' would be the more appropriate title.

    If you are new to ImageMagick and want to see what can be done, this is a handy guide but any power users won't get a lot out of this book. The examples are handy, but the decision to have no color photos really hurts this text even as an introduction to the technology. Apress, you want some advice for version 2??? Get out the Crayola box!!

    **** RECOMMENDED
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  • Michel-Patrick
    3.0 out of 5 stars Utiliser les API de ImageMagick
    Reviewed in France on December 3, 2013
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    Pour ce qui est des exemple d'utilisation en ligne de commandes, le livre aurait pu être plus exhaustif. La partie la plus intéressante de ce livre est celle qui donne des exemples d'utilisation des api.
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  • Simon Barnes
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not NEARLY definitive :-(
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2008
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    Admittedly, I've only skimmed this book before returning it, but I was very disappointed. Rather than a definitive reference it's merely a beginners' introduction to IM, and deeply compromised even in that by having all its illustrations and photos in murky black and white. I learned far more from the online documentation (such as it is), and this book was no help at all on the more complex issues I wanted to investigate.

    It wastes a whole chapter on compilation and installation, a matter that concerned me for about 5 seconds, and another on writing your own 'delegates' in C!

    I could go on, but it's enough to say - don't buy it! I just wish I'd paid more attention to the online text (some of which you can read for free on Google books). A turkey. Avoid.
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  • Hugo L. Shepherd
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick by Michael Still, really defined how to compose your photographs with this program!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2013
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    Absolutely brilliant! The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick shows you how to come to terms with the program and make your photographs stand out!.
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