ImageMagick is a really cool product. Not only is it open source but its very powerful tool. My goal was to figure out how to batch resize images while keeping one side 640 pixels wide. I ended up using ImageMagick’s mogrify by issuing the command below at my CentOS shell prompt.
mogrify -resize x640 *.jpg
or
mogrify -resize 640 *.jpg
Depending on which side you want to be 640 pixels. If you would like for image magic to make the largest side 640 and constrain the proportions use the following command.
mogrify -resize 640×640 *.gif
This is just one of ImageMagick’s long list of tools. Below is more information about mogrify from the man page.
mogrify – resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the original image file, whereas, convert(1) writes to a different image file.
ImageMagick will conert between a huge list of file types which are bmp, cgm, cmyk, eps, fax, fig, fpx, gif, gray, jpeg, pbm, pcd, pcl, pcx, pdf, pict, png, pnm, ppm, ps, rgb, tga, tiff, xbm, xpm, and xwd.
What an amazing tool. This is great article on getting started with this ImageMagick. I never heard of this tool until I found your article and am blow away on how nice this is. Thank you!
Hello Eric,
No problem. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. ImageMagick really is awesome and is a powerful tool to have in your arsenal when manipulating images.
Thanks.
alex