ImageMagick: Legacy | Command-line Tools: Montage (original) (raw)

Use the montage program 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. See Command Line Processing for advice on how to structure your montage command or see below for example usages of the command.

We list a few examples of the montage command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, let's montage two images into a single composite:

The montage command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.

Option

Description

-adaptive-sharpen geometry

adaptively sharpen pixels; increase effect near edges

-adjoin

join images into a single multi-image file

-affine matrix

affine transform matrix

-alpha

on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy", transparent, extract, background, or shape the alpha channel

-annotate geometry text

annotate the image with text

-authenticate value

decrypt image with this password

-auto-orient

automagically orient image

-background color

background color

-blue-primary point

chromaticity blue primary point

-blur geometry

reduce image noise and reduce detail levels

-border geometry

surround image with a border of color

-bordercolor color

border color

-caption string

assign a caption to an image

-channel type

apply option to select image channels

-clone index

clone an image

-coalesce

merge a sequence of images

-colors value

preferred number of colors in the image

-colorspace type

set image colorspace

-comment string

annotate image with comment

-compose operator

set image composite operator

-composite

composite image

-compress type

image compression type

-crop geometry

preferred size and location of the cropped image

-debug events

display copious debugging information

-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

get image or font from this X server

-dispose method

layer disposal method

-dither method

apply error diffusion to image

-draw string

annotate the image with a graphic primitive

-duplicate count,indexes

duplicate an image one or more times

-endian type

endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image

-extent geometry

set the image size

-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

-flatten

flatten a sequence of images

-flip

flip image in the vertical direction

-flop

flop image in the horizontal direction

-font name

render text with this font

-frame geometry

surround image with an ornamental border

-gamma value

level of gamma correction

-geometry geometry

preferred size or location of the image

-gravity type

horizontal and vertical text placement

-green-primary point

chromaticity green primary point

-help

print program options

-identify

identify the format and characteristics of the image

-interlace type

type of image interlacing scheme

-interpolate method

pixel color interpolation method

-kerning value

the space between two characters

-label string

assign a label to an image

-limit type value

pixel cache resource limit

-log format

format of debugging information

-mattecolor color

frame color

-mode type

framing style

-monitor

monitor progress

-monochrome

transform image to black and white

-origin geometry

image origin

-page geometry

size and location of an image canvas (setting)

-pointsize value

font point size

-polaroid angle

simulate a Polaroid picture

-profile filename

add, delete, or apply an image profile

-quality value

JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level

-quantize colorspace

reduce image 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

-resize geometry

resize the image

-respect-parentheses

settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary.

-rotate degrees

apply Paeth rotation to the image

-sampling-factor geometry

horizontal and vertical sampling factor

-scale geometry

scale the image

-scenes range

image scene range

-seed value

seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers

-shadow geometry

simulate an image shadow

-size geometry

width and height of image

-strip

strip image of all profiles and comments

-stroke color

graphic primitive stroke color

-synchronize

synchronize image to storage device

-taint

mark the image as modified

-texture filename

name of texture to tile onto the image background

-tile geometry

number of tiles per row and column (e.g. -tile 8x)

-tile-offset geometry

set the image tile offset

-title

decorate the montage image with a title

-transform

affine transform image

-transparent color

make this color transparent within the image

-transpose

flip image in the vertical direction and rotate 90 degrees

-transparent-color color

transparent color

-treedepth value

color tree depth

-trim

trim image edges

-type type

image type

-units type

the units of image resolution

-unsharp geometry

sharpen the image

-verbose

print detailed information about the image

-version

print version information

-view

FlashPix viewing transforms

-virtual-pixel method

access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image

-white-point point

chromaticity white point