ImageMagick CLI

Overview

Use ImageMagick’s magick CLI to perform deterministic image transforms and batch processing. Use the quick-start examples for common operations. When option syntax or behavior is unclear, consult the relevant section of references/imagemagick-cli.md; load other references only for the task-specific details needed.

Default preferences:

• Prefer magick ... output.ext for safe “read → transform → write”.
• Use magick mogrify only when you explicitly want in-place edits (or use -path out/).
• For compression or file-size optimization tasks, or when the user requests size comparisons, capture file size before and after and report both sizes plus percent reduction.

Quick Start (most common)

# Convert formats
magick input.jpg output.png