composite-im6.q16(1)

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version 6.9.12.98 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu noble

💖 composite-im6.q16(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for composite-im6.q16 — yes that's the whole manual name, we're not copying the header line verbatim, we're just vibing with it. sit down, hydrate, we're learning to overlap images. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

composite — overlaps one image over another. that's it. that's the whole personality. lowkey iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

composite-im6.q16 [ options ... ] change-file base-file [ mask-file ]
output-image

so it's giving: options, then the change file, then the base file, then maybe a mask file, then where it all goes. four-ish arguments, no notes. 💅

🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

composite-im6.q16 is a member of the ImageMagick-ims6.q16(1) suite of tools, and its whole job is overlapping one image over another. main character energy fr fr.

want more tea about the composite command? point your browser at:

file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/composite.html

(on a debian system you may need to install the imagemagick-6 package for that) or just go straight to https://imagemagick.org/script/composite.php. iykyk.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

💜 Image Settings 💜

these are the settings bestie — the vibe-setters, the little knobs that decide how everything downstream behaves.

  • -affine matrix — affine transform matrix
  • -alpha option — the options are on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy, transparent, extract, background, or shape
  • -authenticate value — decrypt image with this password
  • -blue-primary point — chromaticity blue primary point
  • -channel type — apply option to select image channels
  • -colorspace type — alternate image colorspace
  • -comment string — annotate image with comment
  • -compose operator — composite operator
  • -compress type — type of pixel compression when writing the image
  • -decipher filename — convert cipher pixels to plain pixels
  • -define format:option — define one or more image format options
  • -depth value — image depth
  • -density geometry — horizontal and vertical density of the image
  • -display server — get image or font from this X server
  • -dispose method — layer disposal method
  • -dither method — apply error diffusion to image
  • -encipher filename — convert plain pixels to cipher pixels
  • -encoding type — text encoding type
  • -endian type — endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
  • -filter type — use this filter when resizing an image
  • -font name — render text with this font
  • -format "string" — output formatted image characteristics
  • -gravity type — which direction to gravitate towards
  • -green-primary point — chromaticity green primary point
  • -interlace type — type of image interlacing scheme
  • -interpolate method — pixel color interpolation method
  • -label string — assign a label to an image
  • -limit type value — pixel cache resource limit
  • -matte — store matte channel if the image has one
  • -monitor — monitor progress
  • -page geometry — size and location of an image canvas (setting)
  • -pointsize value — font point size
  • -quality value — JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
  • -quiet — suppress all warning messages
  • -red-primary point — chromaticity red primary point
  • -regard-warnings — pay attention to warning messages
  • -repage geometry — size and location of an image canvas (operator)
  • -respect-parentheses — settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary
  • -sampling-factor geometry — horizontal and vertical sampling factor
  • -scene value — image scene number
  • -seed value — seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
  • -size geometry — width and height of image
  • -support factor — resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
  • -synchronize — synchronize image to storage device
  • -taint — declare the image as modified
  • -transparent-color color — transparent color
  • -treedepth value — color tree depth
  • -tile — repeat composite operation across and down image
  • -units type — the units of image resolution
  • -verbose — print detailed information about the image
  • -virtual-pixel method — virtual pixel access method
  • -white-point point — chromaticity white point

🫶 Image Operators 🫶

these ones actually do stuff to your image. they're the ones out here making moves.

  • -blend geometry — blend images
  • -border geometry — surround image with a border of color
  • -bordercolor color — border color
  • -colors value — preferred number of colors in the image
  • -displace geometry — shift image pixels defined by a displacement map
  • -dissolve value — dissolve the two images a given percent
  • -distort geometry — shift lookup according to a absolute distortion map
  • -extract geometry — extract area from image
  • -geometry geometry — location of the composite image
  • -identify — identify the format and characteristics of the image
  • -monochrome — transform image to black and white
  • -negate — replace each pixel with its complementary color
  • -profile filename — add ICM or IPTC information profile to image
  • -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace
  • -rotate degrees — apply Paeth rotation to the image
  • -resize geometry — resize the image
  • -sharpen geometry — sharpen the image
  • -shave geometry — shave pixels from the image edges
  • -stegano offset — hide watermark within an image
  • -stereo — combine two image to create a stereo anaglyph
  • -strip — strip image of all profiles and comments
  • -thumbnail geometry — create a thumbnail of the image
  • -transform — affine transform image
  • -type type — image type
  • -unsharp geometry — sharpen the image
  • -watermark geometry — percent brightness and saturation of a watermark
  • -write filename — write images to this file

🧚 Image Stack Operators 🧚

  • -swap indexes — swap two images in the image sequence

just one diva in this category and she's serving. 💅

🔥 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

okay now the important format lore, listen up: by default, the image format of file is determined by its magic number. to specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). and you can specify file as - for standard input or output. no cap. 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ImageMagick-im6.q16(1)

go read that one too, she's the mothership. 💖

Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see:

file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/license.html

(on a debian system you may install the imagemagick-6 package) or https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php

🎀 that's the whole page bestie, you ate. now go overlap some images responsibly. 🎀

and for the cute sign-off: this whole thing comes from ImageMagick, dated Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00 — yeah she's an old queen but she still runs the game. periodt. 💅✨

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