montage(1) General Commands Manual montage(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

montage - 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.

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

[**magick montage** *input-file\[s\]* \[*options*\] *output-file*](#magick)

# [OVERVIEW](#OVERVIEW)

The **montage** program is a member of the [ImageMagick(1)](/man/os/imagemagick-7/ImageMagick.1) suite of tools. Use it 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.

For more information about the montage command, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/montage.html or https://imagemagick.org/script/montage.php.

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Image Settings:  
\-adjoin join images into a single multi-image file  
\-affine matrix affine transform matrix  
\-alpha option on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy  
transparent, extract, background, or shape  
\-authenticate value decrypt image with this password  
\-blue-primary point chromaticity blue primary point  
\-bordercolor color border color  
\-caption string assign a caption to an image  
\-colors value preferred number of colors in the image  
\-colorspace type alternate image colorspace  
\-comment string annotate image with comment  
\-compose operator composite operator  
\-compress type type of pixel compression when writing the image  
\-define format:option  
define one or more image format options  
\-delay centiseconds display the next image after pausing  
\-density geometry horizontal and vertical density of the image  
\-depth value image depth  
\-display server query font from this X server  
\-dispose method layer disposal method  
\-dither method apply error diffusion to image  
\-encoding type text encoding type  
\-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  
\-font name render text with this font  
\-format "string" output formatted image characteristics  
\-gamma value level of gamma correction  
\-geometry geometry preferred tile and border sizes  
\-gravity direction which direction to gravitate towards  
\-green-primary point chromaticity green primary point  
\-identify identify the format and characteristics of the image  
\-interlace type type of image interlacing scheme  
\-interpolate method pixel color interpolation method  
\-kerning value set the space between two letters  
\-label string assign a label to an image  
\-limit type value pixel cache resource limit  
\-matte store matte channel if the image has one  
\-mattecolor color frame color  
\-mode type framing style  
\-monitor monitor progress  
\-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  
\-quantize colorspace reduce colors in this colorspace  
\-quiet suppress all warning messages  
\-red-primary point chromaticity red primary point  
\-regard-warnings pay attention to warning messages  
\-repage geometry size and location of an image canvas (operator)  
\-respect-parentheses settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary  
\-sampling-factor geometry  
horizontal and vertical sampling factor  
\-scenes range image scene range  
\-seed value seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers  
\-set attribute value set an image attribute  
\-shadow add a shadow beneath a tile to simulate depth  
\-size geometry width and height of image  
\-stroke color color to use when stroking a graphic primitive  
\-support factor resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp  
\-synchronize synchronize image to storage device  
\-taint declare the image as modified  
\-texture filename name of texture to tile onto the image background  
\-thumbnail geometry create a thumbnail of the image  
\-tile geometry number of tiles per row and column  
\-title string decorate the montage image with a title  
\-transparent-color color  
transparent color  
\-treedepth value color tree depth  
\-trim trim image edges  
\-units type the units of image resolution  
\-verbose print detailed information about the image  
\-virtual-pixel method  
virtual pixel access method  
\-white-point point chromaticity white point

Image Operators:  
\-adaptive-sharpen geometry  
adaptively sharpen pixels; increase effect near edges  
\-annotate geometry text  
annotate the image with text  
\-auto-orient automagically orient image  
\-blur geometry reduce image noise and reduce detail levels  
\-border geometry surround image with a border of color  
\-channel mask set the image channel mask  
\-crop geometry preferred size and location of the cropped image  
\-distort method args  
distort images according to given method and args  
\-draw string annotate the image with a graphic primitive  
\-extent geometry set the image size  
\-flatten flatten a sequence of images  
\-flip flip image in the vertical direction  
\-flop flop image in the horizontal direction  
\-frame geometry surround image with an ornamental border  
\-layers method optimize or compare image layers  
\-monochrome transform image to black and white  
\-polaroid angle simulate a Polaroid picture  
\-resize geometry resize the image  
\-rotate degrees apply Paeth rotation to the image  
\-scale geometry scale the image  
\-strip strip image of all profiles and comments  
\-transform affine transform image  
\-transpose flip image vertically and rotate 90 degrees  
\-transparent color make this color transparent within the image  
\-type type image type  
\-unsharp geometry sharpen the image

Image Sequence Operators:  
\-coalesce merge a sequence of images  
\-composite composite image

Image Stack Operators:  
\-clone indexes clone an image  
\-delete indexes delete the image from the image sequence  
\-duplicate count,indexes  
duplicate an image one or more times  
\-insert index insert last image into the image sequence  
\-reverse reverse image sequence  
\-swap indexes swap two images in the image sequence

Miscellaneous Options:  
\-debug events display copious debugging information  
\-help print program options  
\-log format format of debugging information  
\-list type print a list of supported option arguments  
\-version print version information

In addition to those listed above, you can specify these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -mattecolor, or -title.

By default, the image format of \`file' is determined by its magic number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). Specify 'file' as '-' for standard input or output.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[ImageMagick(1)](/man/os/imagemagick-7/ImageMagick.1)

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

**Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/license.html or https://imagemagick.org/license/**

Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00 ImageMagick

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