ImageMagick: Command-line Tools: Montage
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Use the `montage` program to create a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more. See Command Line Processing for advice on how to structure your `montage` command or see below for example usages of the command. ## Example Usage We list a few examples of the `montage` command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, let's montage two images into a single composite:
      montage -background #336699 -geometry +4+4 rose.jpg red-ball.png montage.jpg
Ok, let's add some decorations:
      montage -label %f -frame 5 -background #336699 -geometry +4+4 rose.jpg red-ball.png frame.jpg
You can find additional examples of using `montage` in Graphics from the Command Line. Further discussion is available in More Graphics from the Command Line and Examples of ImageMagick Usage. ## Option Summary The `montage` command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.
Option | Description
--- | ---
-adjoin | join images into a single multi-image file
-affine matrix | affine transform matrix
-annotate geometry text | annotate the image with text
-authenticate value | decrypt image with this password
-blue-primary point | chromaticity blue primary point
-blur geometry | blur the image
-border geometry | surround image with a border of color
-bordercolor color | border color
-channel type | apply option to select image channels
-clone index | clone an image
–coalesce | merge a sequence of images
-colors value | preferred number of colors in the image
-colorspace type | alternate image colorspace
-comment string | annotate image with comment
-compose operator | set image composite operator
-compress type | image compression type
-crop geometry | preferred size and location of the cropped image
-debug events | display copious debugging information
-define format:option | define one or more image format options
-density geometry | horizontal and vertical density of the image
-depth value | image depth
-display server | get image or font from this X server
-dispose method | GIF disposal method
-dither | apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to image
-draw string | annotate the image with a graphic primitive
-endian type | endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
-extract geometry | extract area from image
-fill color | color to use when filling a graphic primitive
-filter type | use this filter when resizing an image
–flatten | flatten a sequence of images
-flip | flip image in the vertical direction
-flop | flop image in the horizontal direction
-font name | render text with this font
-frame geometry | surround image with an ornamental border
-gamma value | level of gamma correction
-geometry geometry | perferred size or location of the image
-gravity type | horizontal and vertical text placement
-green-primary point | chromaticity green primary point
-help | print program options
–identify | identify the format and characteristics of the image
-interlace type | type of image interlacing scheme
-label name | assign a label to an image
-limit type value | pixel cache resource limit
-log format | format of debugging information
-matte | store matte channel if the image has one
-mattecolor color | frame color
-mode type | framing style
-monitor | monitor progress
-monochrome | transform image to black and white
-page geometry | size and location of an image canvas (setting)
-pointsize value | font point size
-profile filename | add, delete, or apply an image profile
-quality value | JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
-quiet | suppress all error or warning messages
-red-primary point | chromaticity red primary point
-repage geometry | size and location of an image canvas
-resize geometry | resize the image
-rotate degrees | apply Paeth rotation to the image
-sampling-factor geometry | horizontal and vertical sampling factor
-scenesrange | image scene range
-shadow geometry | simulate an image shadow
-size geometry | width and height of image
-strip | strip image of all profiles and comments
-stroke color | graphic primitive stroke color
-support factor | resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
-texture filename | name of texture to tile onto the image background
-tile filename | tile image when filling a graphic primitive
-transform | affine transform image
-transparent color | make this color transparent within the image
-treedepth value | color tree depth
-trim | trim image edges
-type type | image type
–units type | the units of image resolution
-verbose | print detailed information about the image
-version | print version information
-view | FlashPix viewing transforms
-virtual-pixel method | access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image
-white-point point | chromaticity white point

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