composite(1)

💖 composite(1) 💖

composite(1) — General Commands Manual, but make it fashion. bestie, you just found the tool that overlaps one image over another, and she is lowkey iconic 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

composite — overlaps one image over another.

that's it. that's her whole personality. overlapping. periodt 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

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🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

okay so composite is a full member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools — she's not a side character, she's main character energy 👑. use her to overlap one image over another. that's the vibe.

want the whole lore? go peek at:

• file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/composite.html
• https://imagemagick.org/script/composite.php

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, and it's a LOT of tea, so hydrate 💧. all the flags are grouped into little cliques below. nothing skipped, nothing merged, every single one is here fr fr.

🧁 Image Settings

• -affine matrix — affine transform matrix
• -alpha option — 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
• -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

• -blend geometry — blend images
• -border geometry — surround image with a border of color
• -bordercolor color — border color
• -channel mask — set the image channel mask
• -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

🫶 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

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okay so real talk about how she figures out your file types 🕵️♀️: 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 yes, you can specify file as - for standard input or output 💖

not me needing you to remember: - = stdin/stdout. she said it herself, no cap.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ImageMagick(1)

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👑 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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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's brought to you by the fine folks behind ImageMagick, dated Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00 — and yeah, the manual name is composite(1), in case you forgot already 🙈 go overlap something pretty 💅✨