Linux: ImageMagick

On a more serious note, what we might have here is a revolution in the Linux art world. A suite full of graphics manipulation, creation, format conversion and various other tools and utilities make ImageMagick formidable artillery for your "Multimedia Folder" collection.

"ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read,write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, Photo CD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications."

"You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, and PERL-based programming interfaces."

This image suite takes a lion's share of downloads at Download.com with an ever-growing 1,720 downloads at last count.

The best part about the whole deal is that, ImageMagick is freeware! Yes, you pay nothing to download it. As always installation on the Linux system is quite a task, but once it's up and running this update version (5.2.2) is relatively trouble-free. You will of course need the X-Windows (Windows-like GUI for Linux) system up and running on your Linux machine.

It seems that the software is open-source; meaning tthatt its source-code is evidently available at this anonymousCVS server.

For a complete list of features and to see what this app can really do, visit their homepage linked at the beginning of this article. Here's something that's free and really a very powerful application, a rare combination to find today.

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