Running ImageMagick "convert" Command

Q

What is the ImageMagick "convert" command? How can I use it?

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A

The ImageMagick "identify" command allows you to convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more. You can test it out in these steps:

1. Go download a picture in .jpg format and save it as test.jpg.

2. Open a command line window.

3. Run "convert test.jpg test.png" command.

C:\fyicenter>identify test.jpg
test.jpg JPEG 2592x1944 2592x1944+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.473MB 0.000u 0:00.003

C:\fyicenter>convert test.jpg test.png

C:\fyicenter>identify test.png
test.png PNG 2592x1944 2592x1944+0+0 8-bit sRGB 6.584MB 0.016u 0:00.002

This confirms that you have converted the image from JPEG to PNG format and saved it in test.png

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