# ImageMagick: MagickCore, C API for ImageMagick: Read or List Image formats
ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you can freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its license is compatible with the [cut: 1167 characters, first 599 kept]
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## DestroyMagick

DestroyMagick() destroys the ImageMagick environment.

The format of the DestroyMagick function is:

      DestroyMagick(void)

## InitializeMagick

InitializeMagick() initializes the ImageMagick environment.

The format of the InitializeMagick function is:

      InitializeMagick(const char *path)

A description of each parameter follows:

##### path

The execution path of the current ImageMagick client.

## IsMagickInstantiated

IsMagickInstantiated() returns MagickTrue if the ImageMagick environment is currently instantiated: InitializeMagick() has been called but MagickDestroy() has not.

The format of the IsMagickInstantiated method is:

      MagickBooleanType IsMagickInstantiated(void)

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