Re: Montage is shrinking my images

Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID <20100510111839.3e0f4b0c@wraith>
On Sun, 9 May 2010 08:22:46 -0400
[email protected] wrote:

| I have eight 1600x1200 images that I want to combine into a 4x2 montage at
| full size.  The man page for montage, and the examples I found online, all
| seem to agree that it won't scale if you don't ask it to, but I'm getting a
| tiny image as output.  What am I doing wrong?
| 
| $ identify picture*jpg
| picture1.jpg JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 207KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture2.jpg[1] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 191KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture3.jpg[2] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 205KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture4.jpg[3] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 205KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture5.jpg[4] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 229KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture6.jpg[5] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 209KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture7.jpg[6] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 168KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| picture8.jpg[7] JPEG 1600x1200 1600x1200+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 129KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| $ montage -tile 4x2 picture*jpg picture.jpg
| $ identify picture.jpg
| picture.jpg JPEG 512x252 512x252+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 39.9KiB 0.000u
| 0:00.000
| 
| 
| I've tried various combinations of options, but nothing seems to work.  Any
| thoughts?  This is ImageMagick 6.5.8 installed via MacPorts on Mac OS X
| 10.6.3.
| 

Set -geometry 0x0+10+10   where the +number is the amount of seperation
wyou want between images.  This removes the montage geometry 'resize'
(setting them to '0x0' which means no-resize.

See IM examples, Montage, Geometry - Tile Size and Spacing
  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/#geometry
And more specifically...
  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/#controls

Default setting is something like   128x128\>+20+20
which means resize images larger than 128 pixel to 128 pixels.



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