Modify Images in Linux – Mogrify

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 13, 2010

“The Mogrify program is a member of the ImageMagick suite of
tool, use the mogrify program to re-size an image, blur, crop,
despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.
This tool is similiar to convert except that the original image
file is overwritten (unless you change the file suffix with the
-format option) with any changes you request.

“Imagemagick Mogrify is an easy to use, ligte, command prompt
tool and capable of editting most of the image types.

“Using Mogrify:

“If you want to transform all the .tiff images in a directory to
.jpg, you can do it with a single command:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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