Hi Anthony, I've got some suggestions to your Digital Photo Handling section. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/photos/
FYI, If you still remember me, I'm the one who asked your help on producing the neon glowing effect. The effect can also help produce the effect that real camera imprinting date onto the films, not digital camera imprint date on pictures -- the difference is the glowing effect. As we know, most digital camera won't imprint date on the pictures, so I think you may want to add how to do this to your digital photo handling section. Thanks to your help, I managed to create such glowing date imprints onto my digital photos. I am satisfied with the result, and from now on I won't let digital camera do it for me even if it can, because I believe date imprinted this way looks much better. Still, I consider it in pilot stage, and writing to ask for your comments. Fist some background, - I set my picture size on my digital camera to be 1600x1200. I think this is the size that can give enough details (normally portrait, not scenery), even for digital printing. What's your opinion? - From experiment, I found that using 32 point font size is good for date imprinting for 1600x1200 images. What's your opinion? Now here is how I did it: Grap floriade.jpg from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/floriade.jpg then, convert -resize 1600x1200 floriade.jpg floriade.big.jpg convert -gravity NorthEast -crop 640x480+0+0 floriade.big.jpg floriade-NE.jpg fg=gold ft=basicdots.ttf fs=32 wd=2007-06-17 convert -size 300x60 xc:none -font $ft -pointsize $fs -gravity center -stroke black -strokewidth 2 -annotate 0 "$wd" -channel RGBA -blur 0x2 -stroke none -fill $fg -annotate 0 "$wd" -blur 0x2 -annotate 0 "$wd" +size floriade-NE.jpg +swap -gravity NorthEast -geometry +50+40 -composite dated.pic.jpg I noticed that all the strokewidth/blur setting really related to the point font size that we choose. This is the setting I found satisfying, via experiment. I want the settings to be enough to make the difference, but just enough as not to interfere with the original photo. FYI, I put the test result file at http://xpt.sourceforge.net/download/dated.pic.jpg I'll like your comment before proceeding. E.g., is font size 32 really looks good on floriade.big.jpg? etc. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
