Graphics from the Command Line

ImageMagik is something nearly all developers can all appreciate. It’s a little software suite that allows you to create or modify batch images on-the-fly from PHP, C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and several other languages. It can be tricky getting used to, but I’ve located a guide that explains the basics. Once reading through this, you should be pretty familiar with ImageMagik, and how you might apply it in your applications:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428