Magick::Montage Class

A montage is a single image which is composed of thumbnail images composed in a uniform grid. The size of the montage image is determined by the size of the individual thumbnails and the number of rows and columns in the grid.

The following illustration shows a montage consisting of three columns and two rows of thumbnails rendered on a gray background:

Montages may be either "plain" (undecorated thumbnails) or "framed" (decorated thumbnails). In order to more easily understand the options supplied to MontageImages(), montage options are supplied by two different classes: Magick::Montage and Magick::MontageFramed.

Plain Montages

Magick::Montage is the base class to provide montage options and provides methods to set all options required to render simple (unframed) montages. See Magick::MontageFramedif you would like to create a framed montage.

Unframed thumbnails consist of four components: the thumbnail image, the thumbnail border, an optional thumbnail shadow, and an optional thumbnail label area.

Montage Methods

Framed Montages

Magick::MontageFramed provides the means to specify montage options when it is desired to have decorative frames around the image thumbnails. MontageFramed inherits from Montage and therefore provides all the methods of Montage as well as those shown in the table "MontageFramed Methods".

Framed thumbnails consist of four components: the thumbnail image, the thumbnail frame, the thumbnail border, an optional thumbnail shadow, and an optional thumbnail label area.

MontageFramed Methods