Win10 How to startup ImageMagick ?

[vmars316]

Hello & Thanks ,
Windows 10 x64
I just installed "ImageMagick-7.0.8-48-portable-Q16-x64.zip" 
When I click on "magick.exe" 
all I get back is a momentary flash of something , then nothing .
How to startup ImageMagick ?
Thanks

[Ofnuts]

ImageMagick is a command line utility. It runs in a command prompt (aka "black screen"). So, normally:

• You start a command prompt (seach for "command" in the Start menu).
  
• You use the "CD" command to navigate to the folder where you keep your files:  cd c:\Users\{your_id}\My Documents\Pictures
  
• You issue "commands": magick convert the_file.png the_file.jpg or even worse magick convert the_file.png {a_whole_lot_of_parameters_you_have_to_figure_out} the_file.jpg`. The documentation, Google, DuckDuckGo, your favorite forums are your friends.
  

Sounds complicated? Perhaps. But not that hard, this was how things worked before the invention of windows-based interfaces. And there is a huge advantage. Once you figure out an incantation that works you can put it in a file (aka "script", a .BAT file in Windows) and can then repeat it at will, and this will be much faster that doing (and reembering) all the clicks again in a window-based app. For instance I have a short script to make a smaller version of my photos, with a bit of added contrast and some sharpening where the "core" is:

Code:

magick convert "$f" -modulate 100,120  -geometry 3000 -sharpen 0x1.0 -quality 85 "$dir/$(basename "$f" .JPG).jpg"

Of course it took me a while to figure out, but Id did that only once... and used it many times since.

Some more information on the command prompt:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutoria...roduction/
https://red-dot-geek.com/basic-windows-c...-commands/

[rich2005]

ImageMagick is primarily a command line application run in a Windows 'cmd' terminal. There is not even a half-decent Windows GUI that I know of.

You have made things slightly more difficult using the portable version, the installer has an option to add IM to the Windows path. Just means a bit more typing on your part.

This is a very quick look at starting IM - 3 minutes of video https://youtu.be/Za1SRXoiVHM

What do you want to do with IM?The best place for questions is usually their own forum https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/ in the users section.

However, if you can give details of what you intend maybe someone here can assist.