I would like to combine multiple images into one image using ImageMagick. To explain a little better, I want the result to look similar to this:
That is, I have a number of screenshots, and I want to turn them into one image with the original images on top of each other.
By Googling, I have come across the 'composite' command, but I don't know if, and in that case how to use it to get the result I want.
Best Answer
For any number of input files named
in-<something>.jpg
:In order to have specific files appended, or skip numbers instead of getting the full "glob", you can mention the input files explicitly and put the
append
command afterwardsYou can use
-append
(instead of+append
) for vertical paste-up.Or:
will also create a file
out.jpg
that contains a vertical concatenation of the source images.convert
For simple concatenation in a single row or column, the
append
option of theconvert
tool is sufficient. Note that-append
concatenates all images vertically, creating one column with n rows, and+append
concatenates horizontally, creating one row with n columns.(See ImageMagick: Command-line Options.)
montage
To get finer control over the layout, we would need the
montage
tool.montage -mode concatenate
will glue the input images together like theappend
option and-tile 1x
controls the layout to be applied.tile
follows the format columns×rows, but either side may be missing andmontage
will figure out how to meet the constraints.We're using
1x
(exactly one column with any number of rows) here to get the same effect as-append
. Without-tile 1x
, it would join the images like+append
, defaulting to-tile x1
(any number of columns on one row).(See ImageMagick Examples: Montage, Arrays of Images.)