animate(1)

🌈 animate(1) · General Commands Manual 💖

✨ NAME ✨

okay so animate is the one that animates an image or image sequence on any X server 💖

💅 SYNOPSIS

magick animate [options] input-file

🌸 OVERVIEW

bestie, animate is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools 🧚 use it to animate an image or image sequence on any X server ✨

for more deets, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/animate.html or https://imagemagick.org/script/animate.php 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION

🦋 Image Settings

• -alpha option — on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy, transparent, extract, background, or shape. the alpha vibes are immaculate 💅
• -authenticate value — decrypt the image with this password 🔐
• -backdrop — display the image centered on a backdrop 🌸
• -colormap type — Shared or Private
• -colorspace type — alternate image colorspace 🌈
• -decipher filename — convert cipher pixels to plain pixels
• -define format:option — define one or more image format options
• -delay centiseconds — display the next image after pausing ⏳
• -density geometry — horizontal and vertical density of the image
• -depth value — image depth
• -display server — display the image to this X server 🖥️
• -dispose method — layer disposal method
• -dither method — apply error diffusion to the image
• -filter type — use this filter when resizing an image
• -format "string" — output formatted image characteristics 🧾
• -gamma value — level of gamma correction
• -geometry geometry — preferred size and location of the Image window 🪟
• -gravity type — horizontal and vertical backdrop placement
• -identify — identify the format and characteristics of the image 🔍
• -immutable — the displayed image cannot be modified 🔒
• -interlace type — type of image interlacing scheme
• -interpolate method — pixel color interpolation method
• -limit type value — pixel cache resource limit
• -loop iterations — loop the images, then exit 🔁
• -matte — store the matte channel if the image has one
• -map type — display the image using this Standard Colormap
• -monitor — monitor progress 👀
• -pause — seconds to pause before reanimating ⏸️
• -page geometry — size and location of an image canvas (setting)
• -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace 🎨
• -quiet — suppress all warning messages 🤫
• -regard-warnings — pay attention to warning messages ⚠️
• -remote command — execute a command in a remote display process
• -repage geometry — size and location of an image canvas (operator)
• -respect-parentheses settings — settings remain in effect until the parenthesis boundary 🫶
• -sampling-factor geometry — horizontal and vertical sampling factor
• -scenes range — image scene range
• -seed value — seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers 🎲
• -set attribute value — set an image attribute
• -size geometry — width and height of the image
• -support factor — resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp 🌫️
• -transparent-color color — transparent color 🫧
• -treedepth value — color tree depth 🌳
• -verbose — print detailed information about the image 📣
• -visual type — display the image using this visual type
• -virtual-pixel method — virtual pixel access method
• -window id — display the image to the background of this window 🪟

💖 Image Operators

• -channel mask — set the image channel mask 🎭
• -colors value — preferred number of colors in the image
• -crop geometry — preferred size and location of the cropped image ✂️
• -extent geometry — set the image size
• -extract geometry — extract an area from the image
• -monochrome — transform the image to black and white 🖤🤍
• -resample geometry — change the resolution of an image
• -resize geometry — resize the image
• -rotate degrees — apply Paeth rotation to the image 🔄
• -strip — strip the image of all profiles and comments 🧹
• -thumbnail geometry — create a thumbnail of the image 🖼️
• -trim — trim the image edges ✂️

🧚 Image Sequence Operators

• -coalesce — merge a sequence of images 🫂
• -flatten — flatten a sequence of images 🥞

🌷 Miscellaneous Options

• -debug events — display copious debugging information 🐛
• -help — print program options 🆘
• -log format — format of debugging information 📝
• -list type — print a list of supported option arguments 📋
• -version — print version information 🏷️

in addition to the ones above, you can also pass these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -name, -mattecolor, -shared-memory, or -title 🪄

by default, the image format of file is figured out from its magic number 🔮 to pick a specific format, put an image format name and a colon in front of the filename (i.e. ps:image), or use the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). and specify 'file' as '-' if you want standard input or output 🫶

🎮 Buttons

• 1 — press to map or unmap the Command widget 🕹️

🦋 SEE ALSO

ImageMagick(1)

🔥 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/license.html or https://imagemagick.org/license/ 📜

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