imagemagick
Recipes / Procedures
Compositing / applying a mask
composite -compose Dst_Over base.png mask.png masked.png
Cropping and Stacking Images
for f in inputs-*; do convert "$f" -crop ${width}x${height}+${x_offset}+${y_offset} "cropped/$f"; done convert -append cropped/* vertically-stacked.ext
Creating Progressive JPEG Images
convert input.jpg -interlace plane output.jpg