Like most other open-source applications, ImageMagick can be installed and configured on many platforms.

Where to get ImageMagick
You can find many ImageMagick ftp and http download links on the Internet. But I suggest you download it from the original website, because the links in that site always lead you to the newest version of the program. Sometimes third-party websites update their links with a delay (unless they use the syndication solution for their download links).

Moreover, during the lifetime of a released version there are often some bugs and enhancements that are issued by ImageMagick users and based on these reports, the development team of ImageMagick will make any required changes and update the related link. Sometimes, in these cases other third-party websites may lose the chance to detect the updated features and resolved bugs in the current version.

There are so many capabilities you can work with in ImageMagick! We are going to study the most popular of them and then we will see how to use these features as programmers in our practical projects. Some of the topics and features that will be studied in this book are summarized as follows:

•    Format Conversion: Convert an image from one format to another (about 100 formats supported)

•    Text & Comments: Inserting descriptive or artistic text in images