Darkening an image with ImageMagick

I regularly need to darken images for background use behind a title. I've been using a filter in Acorn, but finally decided to make it a script that uses ImageMagick so that I could simplify it all with Alfred. This is the script: darken-image.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ -z "$1" ] then echo "Usage: darken-image [contrast=40]" echo "" exit 1 fi in_filename="$1" amount=${2:-40} # Set output filename to original filename with "-darker" appended extension="${in_filename##*.}" name="${in_filename%.*}"… continue reading.