montage

montage

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES OPTIONS X RESOURCES ENVIRONMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT AUTHORS

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NAME

montage - create a composite image by combining several separate images

SYNOPSIS

montage [__ ''options'' __...? file [[__ ''options'' __...? file ...] output_file

DESCRIPTION

montage creates a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image with the name of the image optionally appearing just below the individual tile.

The composite image is constructed in the following manner. First, each image specified on the command line, except for the last, is scaled to fit the maximum tile size. The maximum tile size by default is 120x120. It can be modified with the -geometry command line argument or X resource. See Options for more information on command line arguments. See __X(1)?__ for more information on X resources. Note that the maximum tile size need not be a square.

Next the composite image is initialized with the color specified by the -background command line argument or X resource. The width and height of the composite image is determined by the title specified, the maximum tile size, the number of tiles per row, the tile border width and height, the image border width, and the label height. The number of tiles per row specifies how many images are to appear in each row of the composite image. The default is to have 5 tiles in each row and 4 tiles in each column of the composite. A specific value is specified with -tile. The tile border width and height, and the image border width defaults to the value of the X resource -borderwidth. It can be changed with the -borderwidth or -geometry command line argument or X resource. The label height is determined by the font you specify with the -font command line argument or X resource. If you do not specify a font, a font is chosen that allows the name of the image to fit the maximum width of a tiled area. The label colors is determined by the -background and -fill command line argument or X resource. Note, that if the background and pen colors are the same, labels will not appear.

Initially, the composite image title is placed at the top if one is specified (refer to -fill). Next, each image is set onto the composite image, surrounded by its border color, with its name centered just below it. The individual images are left-justified within the width of the tiled area. The order of the images is the same as they appear on the command line unless the images have a scene keyword. If a scene number is specified in each image, then the images are tiled onto the composite in the order of their scene number. Finally, the last argument on the command line is the name assigned to the composite image. By default, the image is written in the MIFF format and can be viewed or printed with display(1).

Note, that if the number of tiles exceeds the default number of 20 (5 per row, 4 per column), more than one composite image is created. To ensure a single image is produced, use -tile to increase the number of tiles to meet or exceed the number of input images.

Finally, to create one or more empty spaces in the sequence of tiles, use the image format.

Note, a composite MIFF image displayed to an X server with display behaves differently than other images. You can think of the composite as a visual image directory. Choose a particular tile of the composite and press a button to display it. See __display(1)? and miff(5)?__

EXAMPLES

To create a montage of a cockatoo, a parrot, and a hummingbird and write it to a file called birds, use:

montage cockatoo.miff parrot.miff hummingbird.miff birds.miff

To tile several bird images so that they are at most 256 pixels in width and 192 pixels in height, surrounded by a red border, and separated by 10 pixels of background color, use:

montage -geometry 256x192+10+10 -bordercolor red birds.* montage.miff

To create an unlabeled parrot image, 640 by 480 pixels, and surrounded by a border of black, use:

montage -geometry 640x480 -bordercolor black -label

To create an image of an eagle with a textured background, use:

montage -texture bumps.jpg eagle.jpg eagle.png

To join several GIF images together without any extraneous graphics (e.g. no label, no shadowing, no surrounding tile frame), use:

montage +frame +shadow +label -tile 5x1 -geometry 50x50+0+0

• .png joined.png

OPTIONS

Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect for the group of images following it, until the group is terminated by the appearance of any option or -noop. For example, to make a montage of three images, the first with 32 colors, the second with an unlimited number of colors, and the third with only 16 colors, use:

montage -colors 32 cockatoo.1 -noop cockatoo.2 -colors 16 cockatoo.3 cockatoos.miff

For a more detailed description of each option, see !ImageMagick(1).

-adjoin

join images into a single multi-image file

-background

the background color

-blur

blur the image with a gaussian operator

-bordercolor

the border color

-borderwidth

the border width

-cache

megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache

-chop

remove pixels from the interior of an image

-colors

preferred number of colors in the image

-colorspace

the type of colorspace

-comment

annotate an image with a comment

-compose

the type of image composition

-compress

the type of image compression

-crop

preferred size and location of the cropped image

-debug

enable debug printout

-density

vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image

-depth

depth of the image

-display

specifies the X server to contact

-dispose

GIF disposal method

-dither

apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image

-draw

annotate an image with one or more graphic primitives

-endian

specify endianness (MSB or LSB) of output image

-fill

color to use when filling a graphic primitive

-filter

use this type of filter when resizing an image

-font

use this font when annotating the image with text

-frame

surround the image with an ornamental border

-gamma

level of gamma correction

-geometry

preferred size and location of the Image window.

-gravity

direction primitive gravitates to when annotating the image.

-help

print usage instructions

-interlace

the type of interlacing scheme

-label

assign a label to an image

-matte

store matte channel if the image has one

-mattecolor

specify the matte color

-mode

mode of operation

-monochrome

transform the image to black and white

-noop

NOOP (no option)

-page

size and location of an image canvas

-pen

specify the pen color for drawing operations

-pointsize

pointsize of the Postscript, OPTION1, or !TrueType font

-quality

JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level

-resize

resize and locate an image

-rotate

apply Paeth image rotation to the image

-sampling_factor

sampling factors used by JPEG encoder.

-scenes

range of image scene numbers to read

-shadow

shadow the montage

-sharpen

sharpen the image

-size

width and height of the image

-stroke

color to use when stroking a graphic primitive

-strokewidth

set the stroke width

-texture

name of texture to tile onto the image background

-tile

layout of images [''montage''?

-title

assign title to displayed image

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