How to stitch pictures using ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a command line graphics suite which allows you to manipulate and retouch your photos in various ways.  It is not installed by default on many Linux distributions but installing it is a simple affair of using their respective package management tool. ImageMagick is also available for Windows.

Here is a simple method of stitching pictures together using one of the tools in ImageMagick graphics suite.

Let’s assume I want to stitch together three pictures namely a.jpg, b.jpg and c.jpg one below the other. Here is how it is done.

$ convert a.jpg b.jpg c.jpg -append abc.jpg

Where, convert is a tool in the ImageMagick suite. abc.jpg is the output picture which is a combination of the three pictures.

Note: In the above command, -append option will stitch the pictures one below the other. But if you want to stitch the pictures together horizontally, use the +append option.