Image concatenation with Imagemagick
Concatenation of multiple images can easily be done with tools such as GIMP, but easily doesn't always mean fast. So let's assume that we want to tile some images, e.g. to create an image sprite we will use on our webpage. And assume we want to do it fast.
So, instead of copy-pasting all images into the sprite, or opening them all as layers and moving them, and opening, and moving, and so on, we're going to use a command line tool, that will do all the work for us.
We will use an extremely powerful tool: Imagemagick, so if you don't have it installed yet, please do it now.
The simple way
The convert program with append option, allows you to append images one after another, vertically or horizontally. So:
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tags: imagemagick

