Why should you use ImageMagick?

  • Free - no subscriptions, nothing to required to buy
    • sponsorship is most welcomed though! 1
  • Offline - no having to upload your personal files online
  • Format support: JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and PDF
  • Open source2
  • Been around since forever (2009😜) 3

Why Use ImageMagick as a Software Developer?

  • it uses the command line - impress your friends
  • lots of utilities and arguments for editing and manipulating images - impress yourself

Where to Get ImageMagick

For Windows ImageMagick can be downloaded at ImageMagick - Download. The ImageMagick team recommends a version at the top of the table ending in Q16-HDRI-x64-dll.exe.

Installation Guide

Download the installer and run it. Basically, the defaults are good. Make sure “Add application directory to your system path” is checked (by default it is).

ImageMagick Installation

Run Windows Terminal by WindowsKey+R and type wt.

In Windows Terminal, magick -version and if the version information comes up then ImageMagick is ready to use through the command line.

New in ImageMagick v7 and later calling magick convert or convert is deprecated and not necessary, rather magick is now enough.

Lets Go! 🐎

  1. Sponsor @ImageMagick on GitHub Sponsors ↩︎

  2. GitHub - ImageMagickImageMagick 🧙‍♂️ ImageMagick 7 ↩︎

  3. First commit to Github was 15 years on Sept 5, 2009. ↩︎