montage(1)

💖 montage(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to montage(1) from the General Commands Manual section — yes that's the whole vibe, and no, we're not skipping a single flag, so grab a snack 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

montage — create a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

magick montage input-file[s] [options] output-file

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🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

The montage program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools. Use it to create a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more. literally the collage maker of your dreams 💅

For more information about the montage command, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/montage.html or https://imagemagick.org/script/montage.php.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

💜 Image Settings 💜

• -adjoin — join images into a single multi-image file
• -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
• -bordercolor color — border color
• -caption string — assign a caption to an image
• -colors value — preferred number of colors in the image
• -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
• -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 — query font from this X server
• -dispose method — layer disposal method
• -dither method — apply error diffusion to image
• -encoding type — text encoding type
• -endian type — endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
• -extract geometry — extract area from image
• -fill color — color to use when filling a graphic primitive
• -filter type — use this filter when resizing an image
• -font name — render text with this font
• -format "string" — output formatted image characteristics
• -gamma value — level of gamma correction
• -geometry geometry — preferred tile and border sizes
• -gravity direction — which direction to gravitate towards
• -green-primary point — chromaticity green primary point
• -identify — identify the format and characteristics of the image
• -interlace type — type of image interlacing scheme
• -interpolate method — pixel color interpolation method
• -kerning value — set the space between two letters
• -label string — assign a label to an image
• -limit type value — pixel cache resource limit
• -matte — store matte channel if the image has one
• -mattecolor color — frame color
• -mode type — framing style
• -monitor — monitor progress
• -page geometry — size and location of an image canvas (setting)
• -pointsize value — font point size
• -profile filename — add, delete, or apply an image profile
• -quality value — JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
• -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace
• -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
• -scenes range — image scene range
• -seed value — seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
• -set attribute value — set an image attribute
• -shadow — add a shadow beneath a tile to simulate depth
• -size geometry — width and height of image
• -stroke color — color to use when stroking a graphic primitive
• -support factor — resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
• -synchronize — synchronize image to storage device
• -taint — declare the image as modified
• -texture filename — name of texture to tile onto the image background
• -thumbnail geometry — create a thumbnail of the image
• -tile geometry — number of tiles per row and column
• -title string — decorate the montage image with a title
• -transparent-color color — transparent color
• -treedepth value — color tree depth
• -trim — trim image edges
• -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 🌈

• -adaptive-sharpen geometry — adaptively sharpen pixels; increase effect near edges
• -annotate geometry text — annotate the image with text
• -auto-orient — automagically orient image ✨
• -blur geometry — reduce image noise and reduce detail levels
• -border geometry — surround image with a border of color
• -channel mask — set the image channel mask
• -crop geometry — preferred size and location of the cropped image
• -distort method args — distort images according to given method and args
• -draw string — annotate the image with a graphic primitive
• -extent geometry — set the image size
• -flatten — flatten a sequence of images
• -flip — flip image in the vertical direction
• -flop — flop image in the horizontal direction
• -frame geometry — surround image with an ornamental border
• -layers method — optimize or compare image layers
• -monochrome — transform image to black and white
• -polaroid angle — simulate a Polaroid picture
• -resize geometry — resize the image
• -rotate degrees — apply Paeth rotation to the image
• -scale geometry — scale the image
• -strip — strip image of all profiles and comments
• -transform — affine transform image
• -transpose — flip image vertically and rotate 90 degrees
• -transparent color — make this color transparent within the image
• -type type — image type
• -unsharp geometry — sharpen the image

🫶 Image Sequence Operators 🫶

• -coalesce — merge a sequence of images
• -composite — composite image

🧚 Image Stack Operators 🧚

• -clone indexes — clone an image
• -delete indexes — delete the image from the image sequence
• -duplicate count,indexes — duplicate an image one or more times
• -insert index — insert last image into the image sequence
• -reverse — reverse image sequence
• -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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In addition to those listed above, you can specify these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -mattecolor, or -title.

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). Specify 'file' as - for standard input or output.

🫧 heads up bestie: that - trick is how you pipe images in and out — standard input or standard output, your call.

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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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