Installing and Configuring ImageMagick

Conclusion

This chapter hasn’t been the most exciting chapter that you’ll read in the book, but it’s an important one, because it shows you how to get ImageMagick installed on your machines. Now that you have ImageMagick installed, you can move onto the much more interesting aspects of ImageMagick, such as Chapter 2, which talks about changing the size of images and making thumbnails; Chapter 3, which talks about how to convert images between different compression formats; and Chapter 5, which shows how to apply some fantastic visual effects to your images.

If you need more details for the instructions in this chapter, then I recommend you refer to Chapter 12, which covers more details about how to get help online, where the various ImageMagick community resources are, and where to find the Web site for this book, which is where I’ll post any errata and changes to the build process as I learn about them.