imagemagick-full ☆

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Description:
Tools and libraries to manipulate images in many formats

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Jan 18, 2026

Links: Homepage | @ImageMagick | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: images graphics conversion cli batch-processing libraries

Install: brew install imagemagick-full

About:
ImageMagick is a powerful, open-source software suite for creating, editing, composing, and converting bitmap images. It supports over 200 major file formats and provides a comprehensive set of command-line tools and programming libraries for automated, scriptable image processing.

Key Features:

Command-line utilities for batch image conversion and editing
Supports a vast array of image formats (e.g., PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF, SVG)
Advanced image processing operations (resize, crop, filter, composite, transform)
Programmable interfaces for multiple languages (e.g., MagickWand for C, RMagick for Ruby)
High dynamic range (HDR) and quantum depth support for high-fidelity images

Use Cases:

Automated batch processing and conversion of image assets for web development
Server-side image manipulation and dynamic generation for applications
Scientific image analysis, processing, and format conversion

Alternatives:

GraphicsMagick – A fork of ImageMagick focused on stability, performance, and a smaller codebase.
GIMP – A full-featured, GUI-based image editor, less suited for scripted, command-line batch processing.
ffmpeg – Primarily for video/audio, but can handle basic image sequence and format conversion.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jan 19, 2026 7:01pm		0	REVISION_ONLY	e9416273
Jan 18, 2026 1:58pm		2	META	53f8b9af