Useful imagemagick commands for newsrooms

imagemagic_commands.md

Useful ImageMagick commands for newsrooms

Quickly create, edit, compose or convert images from the command line.

www.imagemagick.org

Installing

$ brew install imagemagick

Commands

convert image to width of 200, make it progresseive and reduce quality to 80%

$ convert -resize 200 -interlace Plane -quality 80

Run the same command above but for all images in a directory

$ for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 200 -interlace Plane -quality 80 $i $i; done

More to come

Here is the site of all the commands: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php