Running convert several times for one file - imagemagick

I wish to run the following four operations on each of a large number of files in a directory. Is there a more efficient (faster) way of doing this? Where me.png is one of the files.
composite -compose change-mask background.png me.png me.png
convert me.png -background blue -flatten me.png
convert me.png -transparent blue me.png
convert me.png -quality 95 me.png

Use convert in place of composite in ImageMagick and then you can chain all your commands.
convert me.png background.png -compose change-mask -composite -compose over -background blue -flatten -transparent blue -quality 95 me.png
See https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#changemask and https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/
Also note that -quality for PNG is not the same as that for JPG. It is not in the range 0 to 100 as for JPG. See https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#quality

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How can I combine these two imagemagick convert commands?

How can I combine the following two imagemagick convert commands?
convert inverted.png -transparent white -negate temp.png
convert standard.png temp.png -composite final.png
I can't figure out the syntax, though I'm sure I'll kick myself when I see the answer.
You have a couple of options.
First, you can load the inverted image first and negate it, then load the second and swap the order:
convert inverted.png -transparent white -negate standard.png +swap -composite result.png
Or, you can load them in the correct order, but use parentheses to ensure only the second is negated:
convert standard.png \
\( inverted.png -transparent white -negate \) \
-composite result.png
By the way, this is old v6 syntax, you should be using v7 by now which would be:
magick inverted.png -transparent white -negate standard.png +swap -composite result.png

imagemagick compose one transparent png(as mask) with one jpg

I have 2 type of images.
Some hundreds of png images with just one color(gray) and some transparent zones then must be transparent even in final result.
Over 30 thousands of jpg images with many size.
I must estrapolate from jpg images the gray zones of png files.
Now i use something like this :
convert JPG_FILE.jpg -resize WIDTH_OF_PNGxHEIGHT_OF_PNG^ -gravity Center -crop WIDTH_OF_PNGxHEIGHT_OF_PNG+0+0 -alpha Set PNG_FILE.png ( -clone 0,1 -alpha Opaque -compose Hardlight -composite ) -delete 0 -compose In -composite RESULT_IMAGE.png
it works very good but its a bit slow
any suggestion for faster execution?

How to split an image with a grid and preserve transparency bounding box

I have some png images that I want to split it into parts, like by grid or size.
But each part should have the same bounding box (transparency) as original image.
Example:
Splitting image into 2 parts.
Original: 200 × 89
Output:
part_1.png, 200 × 89
part_2.png, 200 × 89
Can ImageMagick do this? Or any other app or method.
My actual goal is to split into 100+ slices images.
EDIT:
Another goal to have an indents for each slice. Say indent = 10px.
Example:
Input: 200 x 100
Output:
part_1.png, 200 x 100
part_2.png, 200 x 100
And just as example, to visually compare input and output: combined output images in Photoshop as layer added one onto another
200 x 100 :
Also this is showing input image added onto combined(so it's better to see what was cropped and how):
In ImageMagick, you can split an image into many parts with the -crop command. For your example above with two parts, you can do that with the following commands. ImageMagick will append -0, -1 ... to the output file names.
ImageMagick 6:
dim=`convert image.png -format "%wx%h" info:`
convert \( -size $dim xc:none \) null: \( image.png -crop 50x100% \) -layers composite result.png
ImageMagick 7:
magick \( image.png -set option:dim "%wx%h" -crop 50x100% \) null: \( -size "%[dim]" xc:none \) -reverse -layers composite result.png
The results are:
See
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop_percent
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop_tile
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop_quad
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop_equal
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#layers
Note that -crop keeps the virtual canvas information if you do not add +repage afterwards. So to put the individual images back into their original placement, you have to composite them onto a transparent background the size of the input. That is done in one command using -layers composite using the null: separator.
Here is another way to add transparent areas between parts of a crop in ImageMagick. Crop the image into pieces, chop off the parts you want to remove, then pipe to montage to add the spacing back.
Input:
Here I make this into a 4x4 grid of images with 10 pixel spacing:
convert lena.png -crop 25%x25% +repage -gravity east -chop 10x0 -gravity south -chop 0x10 +repage miff:- | montage - -background none -tile 4x4 -geometry +5+5 result.png
To answer your new question, you can do that with a script loop. On a Unix-like platform, assuming your images do not have spaces, you can do the following:
cd path/to/current_folder
list=`ls *.png`
for img in $list; do
name=`convert $img -format "%t" info:`
dim=`convert $img -format "%wx%h" info:`
convert \( -size $dim xc:none \) null: \( $img -crop 50x100% \) -layers composite -scene 1 path/to/new_folder/${name}_%d.png
done
If you want leading 0s in the output, say 3, use path/to/new_folder/${name}_%03d.png.
Note that to start with 1 rather than 0, I have added -scene 1.
Sorry, I do not know how to script for Windows.
Please always provide your ImageMagick version and platform.
In ImageMagick, the best way to put transparent areas into your image is with a binary mask that is put into the alpha channel of your image.
convert input.png \( -size 200x89 xc:white -size 10x89 xc:black -gravity center -composite \) -alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite result.png
You can add as many blank areas as you want by adding more white areas to the mask or by tiling out one region of black and one region of white to create the mask with regular spacing of black and white.
Edited to add this ImageMagick 6 example which splits the input image into 4 pieces, 25% of the original width and 100% of its height, then creates a transparent canvas for each piece the same dimensions of the input image, and locates the pieces at their original offsets on those canvases.
convert input.png -set option:distort:viewport %[w]x%[h] -crop 25x100% \
-virtual-pixel none -distort affine "0,0 %[fx:s.page.x],%[fx:s.page.y]" out%03d.png
The output file names will be numbered starting from zero like "out000.png", etc.
Original message...
Here's a simple command using ImageMagick 7 that can crop an image into any number of pieces, and output all the pieces at their original offsets on transparent backgrounds of the original input dimensions...
magick input.png -crop 100x1# -background none \
-extent "%[fx:s.page.width]x%[fx:s.page.height]-%[fx:s.page.x]-%[fx:s.page.y]" out%03d.png
That "-crop 100x1#" tells it to split the image into a grid 100 pieces wide by 1 piece high. You could just as well specify the crop sizes as percents or numbers of pixels.
Edited again to add:
This following command will split the input image into the individual pieces specified with the "-crop" operator, then shave 5 pixels from every side of each piece, then apply a 5 pixel transparent border to every side of each piece. It will still remember the original locations of the pieces within the input canvas, so the "-distort affine ..." can extend the canvases and place the pieces where they were in the input image.
convert input.png -set option:distort:viewport %[w]x%[h] \
-bordercolor none -background none -virtual-pixel none \
-crop 25x100% -shave 5x5 -border 5x5 \
-distort affine "0,0 %[fx:s.page.x],%[fx:s.page.y]" out%03d.png
To use this command with IM7 you need to change "convert" to "magick".
Given the changes of requirements provided by Kamikaze, here is one way to achieve the split with indent in ImageMagick, assuming I understand correctly.
dim=`convert image.png -format "%wx%h" info:`
convert \( -size $dim xc:none \) null: \( image.png -crop 50x100% -shave 5x5 \) -geometry +5+5 -layers composite result.png
To check, I flatten over a blue background:
convert result-0.png result-1.png -background blue -flatten result.png

Imagemagick compose image inverted

I want to watermark an image, so I used compose multiply, but for some reason it doesn't work as expected.
The command:
magick image.jpg over.png -compose multiply -resize 2048x2048 -gravity center -quality 65 -strip -composite out.jpg
The over.png get inverted first and then applied??
If use the same command with and older version of Imagemagick (x32 6.7.6-1 2012-03-17 Q16) I get the expected results.
This was tested with x64 ImageMagick 7.0.5 Q16 under Windows 10.
Ah it seems I can't post all the images.
After a lot of research, turns out it's an artifact of one of the images being a JPEG in CMYK colorspace.
Very weird, but there you go.
Adding '-profile sRGB.icc' to the line should take care of it.
FYI your syntax is not proper. You have separated -compose multiply and -composite with -resize. You should do it this way with nothing between them.
magick image.jpg over.png -gravity center -compose multiply -composite -resize 2048x2048 -strip -quality 65 out.jpg
As you said there will be issues if your input JPG is CMYK and your png will always be sRGB. So you do need to convert the CMYK to sRGB before processing.

How to blend + translate simultaneously with Imagemagick (or some other scriptable software like Photoshop)?

How can I blend AND translate at the same time ?
Something like this : http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#flatten but in such a way that the images are transparent.
I was trying :
composite -blend 90 -page +0+0 input01.jpg -page +500+0 input02.jpg -resize x400 outputSimpleMosaicBlend01.
but this did not work.
So if I have two input images:
Then how can I get an image that looks like the composite image below ?
Any suggestions how to do this programatically (not manually) with ImageMagick ? Or some other tools ?
I would like to create several thousands of composite images like that (for an animation) and I would like to automate the process.
The problem is that I can find examples that overlay images and that translate images but I cannot find examples that do these two operations simultaneously.
This is the main goal of this question, to give such code/script examples, how to do that with image manipulation tools like ImageMagick programmatically.
EDIT:
Things that I tried and did not work:
convert a.jpg -geometry +100+0 b.jpg -compose blend -composite result.jpg
gives:
I tried
convert -background none a.jpg -geometry +100+0 b.jpg -compose blend -composite result.jpg
too which gives the same result.
I got this :
with this
convert -background none input01.jpg input02.jpg -geometry +1200+0 -compose blend -define compose:args=50 -composite result.jpg
command.
It's getting close ! Thanks Mark!
A slightly different way of doing this is to set the width of the output image using -extent and then to overlay the right hand image using -gravity East to align it to the right edge - seems a fraction more intuitive to me - but go with whatever works for you!
convert a.jpg -background white -extent 2800x \
\( b.jpg -resize 150% -alpha on -channel A -evaluate set 50% +channel \) \
-gravity east -composite result.jpg
Thanks to Snigbo, the following command :
convert input02.jpg \( input01.jpg -resize 150% -alpha Opaque -channel A -evaluate Multiply 0.5 +channel -set page +1200+30 \) -background White -layers merge a.jpg
produces:

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