Imagemagick

ImageMagick Plugin

Suite of powerful CLI tools for image processing. Convert, resize, compress, identify, and batch-edit images.

Commands

Image Info

• magick image identify-brief photo.jpg — Quick dimensions and format
• magick image identify photo.jpg — Detailed metadata (verbose)

Resize & Thumbnails

• magick image resize input.jpg -resize 800x600 output.jpg — Resize to exact dimensions
• magick image resize input.jpg -resize 50% output.jpg — Resize by percentage
• magick image thumbnail input.jpg -thumbnail 200x200 thumb.jpg — Create thumbnail

Format Conversion

• magick image convert-format image.jpg image.png — JPEG to PNG
• magick image convert-format logo.svg logo.png — SVG to PNG

Compression

• magick image compress photo.jpg -quality 80 compressed.jpg — Compress JPEG (quality 80)
• magick image compress image.png -quality 50 compressed.png — Compress PNG

Batch

• magick batch mogrify -resize 800x600 -format png *.jpg — Batch resize all JPEGs to PNG

Full Access

• magick _ _ — Passthrough for any convert command (montage, compare, composite, effects, etc.)

Usage Examples

• "What are the dimensions of this image?"
• "Resize image.jpg to 1024x768"
• "Convert all SVG files to PNG in this directory"
• "Compress this photo to 70% quality for the web"
• "Create a 150x150 thumbnail of logo.png"
• "Get detailed metadata about photo.tiff"

Installation

brew install imagemagick

Key Features

• Format conversion: Supports 200+ formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, TIFF, HEIC, PDF, and more)
• Resize & scale: Absolute dimensions, percentages, fit within bounds
• Compression: Quality adjustment for JPEG/PNG/WebP
• Metadata: EXIF, dimensions, colorspace, depth, file size
• Batch processing: Process multiple files at once with mogrify
• Effects: Blur, sharpen, rotate, crop, color adjustments, and more
• Non-interactive: All commands are one-shot, scriptable CLI calls