Image Processing

• ImageMagick -- ImageMagick is actually a collection of programs, described in a man page. However, the best way to access the image processing tools is to call an image up with display, and click on the image to get a menu of options.

• xv -- xv is the standard X viewer, but it also has a menu of image processing options. In particular, its Color Map Editor displays the palette of an image, so you can find the index of a particular color in the image. This is useful, for example, in turning some part of an image transparent for display on a web page. More details are available through its man page.

• imgworks -- ImageWorks is an SGI program. Though it functions much the same as other packages, it has the advantage of excellent online documentation via the SGI InSight system. It is not available on every machine. Try abel.

• Adobe Photoshop -- At the very high end of graphic arts image processing, Photoshop will do everything you can think of, and a lot of other stuff you can't. You can compose images as well as alter them, and naturally, it works well with Adobe Illustrator. It only runs on one Macintosh, so ask about it if you need it.

There are many, many more utility programs for image processing. Consult the image utilities page.

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