imagemagick

[azrael]

i need to use some common filters lik the edge, blur. it was pretty
easy and fast to use python magick. but now as I want to use it with
python, it is impossible. there is the PIL_usm, but also no
installation instrucions.
Is there a way to blur the image using the PIL by a specific radius.



On Mar 1, 4:12 pm, Terry Hancock <hanc... at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> azrael wrote:
> > Hy
> > did anyone manage to work with imahemagick through python. I've been
> > googling like a crazy for some instalation instructions, but i cant
> > find anything. please help.
>
> There have been a few wrappers for ImageMagick over the last few years.
>
> There was once something called "PythonMagick", for example. However
> AFAIK, they are all currently defunct. There was a later version using
> Boost, but it apparently required a lot of system resources to compile
> for some reason, and I don't think I was able to.
>
> Apparently ImageMagick has gone through a lot of API changes and people
> get disgusted with supporting it (?). There is also, of course the
> Python Imaging Library (PIL) that competes with it pretty effectively
> for most use cases (of course ImageMagick has unparalleled image
> conversion support).
>
> If you really want ImageMagick, though, you might want to consider
> writing your own wrapper (perhaps using ctypes, now that it is included
> in the standard library).
>
> I have used 'popen' to run it as a separate process in the past. The
> 'subprocess' module would be the smart way to do that today, and that
> might be your fastest solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
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