The basic advice to all who are are new to ImageMagick is: Look at Anthony's example website at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage and you will find example code for almost everything. If you are looking for something specific, like overlaying images, you can use Google as a search tool, looking e.g. for
overlay site:www.imagemagick.org/Usage Unfortunately, Anthony is in China for a few months, so there only few people over here who can answer questions like yours by heart. My approach to your problem would be to do it in two steps: In the first step, you create an image which has the size of your input image (which is a photograph, I guess), draw a rectangle on it and possibly invert that image. In a second step, I would use Composite to overlay my photograph with the intermediate image just created. If you are new to IM, the general advice is: Do more complicated things in several steps, storing intermediate results in IM's lossless MIFF format and delete these intermediate files when you're done. Almost anything can however be done in one long command line, if you know IM by heart, but I would use the several-steps approach. Wolfgang Hugemann _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
