: Is there a resource that can analyze image files and provide measure of luminence, saturation etc. automatically? I know that several of these values can be derived through photoshop, but it

@Nimeshi706

ImageMagick should be able to do most if not all of what you need.

ImageMagick is a command-line tool for reading, editing, creating and converting bitmap images.

What measurements you want or need to extract is hard to answer—there are infinitely many ways to measure an image. What is useful for you will depend on your use of those measurements.

You can find general usage examples for ImageMagick here:


Examples of ImageMagick Usage


Some more relevant examples of extracting image information with ImageMagick can be found here:


ImageMagick Tidbits - Image Information


A few examples from the ImageMagick Tidbits page:

Average RGB Color of an Image

convert rose: -colorspace rgb -scale 1x1 -format "%[pixel:p{0,0}]" info:


rgb(146,89,80)



Grayscale Minimum, Maximum, Mean And Standard Deviation Of An Imag

data=`convert rose: -colorspace gray -verbose info:`

min=`echo "$data" | sed -n '/^.*[Mm]in:.*[(]([0-9.]*).*$/{ s//1/; p; q; }'`
convert xc: -format "%[fx:100*$min]%%" info:


14.6151%

max=`echo "$data" | sed -n '/^.*[Mm]ax:.*[(]([0-9.]*).*$/{ s//1/; p; q; }'`
convert xc: -format "%[fx:100*$max]%%" info:


100%

mean=`echo "$data" | sed -n '/^.*[Mm]ean:.*[(]([0-9.]*).*$/{ s//1/; p; q; }'`
convert xc: -format "%[fx:100*$mean]%%" info:


41.2302%

std=`echo "$data" | sed -n '/^.*[Ss]tandard.*[(]([0-9.]*).*$/{ s//1/; p; q; }'`
convert xc: -format "%[fx:100*$std]%%" info:


18.581%



Test If Image Has Alpha Channel

[ "$(identify -verbose white.png | grep 'alpha')" = "" ] && echo "alpha off" || echo "alpha on"

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