The 10 chapters of this book are a faithful reference to what is written on the front cover: “Unleash the power of ImageMagick with this fast, friendly tutorial and tips guide”.

 

Grab yourself a copy of this book as you would have wanted to know just how this library guide works in depth or because you had a few doubts that weren’t resolved via the many blogs and forums on the internet.

“With this book I resolved the problems I had after reading the many examples and tips this book had to offer”.

The chapters of this book cover installation and the configuration of the library, convert and edit, composition and assembly, identification and importing of animations. There’s also a chapter on the “conjure” utility, application in web projects, development of an application for e-cards and two appendixes aimed at extracting information from your files such as size, compression levels, and source information.

What I liked most was the use of an xml sheet to give the commands and orders. It reminded me of the old .Bat files which could also be used in a pc, or even the bash files which could also be used in a Linux server; then again, the xml page makes it better suited for batch processing.

 

Since I am currently developing projects in PHP, Chapter 8 was my first stop where it explains how to use the gallery along with examples of the classic “Captcha” and the usage of watermarks. I expected many more examples but it was clear that in the previous chapters there were quite a few and had explanations on how to use them in PHP as you could toy around and modify them.

The e-card application is interesting and worthwhile playing around with its possibilities. It reminded me of Apple’s program.

 

Finally, you should bear in mind that this is a book to be used as a reference guide and as the front cover states …”friendly tutorial and tips guide”…Just don’t expect anything else ;-)

 

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Title:Imagemagick Tricks

Author:Sohail Saleshi

Genre: tools

ISBN:1904811868