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Sorry for not giving the update, actually, I got stuck with the another CMS project, so haven't played further on the book cover stuff and kept it going as it is. Will update it once i resume.

Hello Anthony, I am looking into this option of lighting mask, I am sure we will be able to tweak it further to get more realistic output. I will update with the final output. Now, my concern is the server resources. So far I have about 9 convert commands, I guess they can be merged together? but ...

hmm.. I don't think i will be able to use any of those commands as I am pretty bad in programming and maths. lol Anyway, Fred "fmw42" has been a great help and here is what i am able to produce so far. http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4951/ebookcover.png will be doing some minor tweaks like gradient ...

Does the wave function allows to set different coordinates and the depth of the wave for different coordinates? cause in my situation for top and bottom need different numbers.

Can we save an image in between the process? eg.

covert \( do something save1.jpg) do more processing save2.jpg

?
or do I need to use separate convert command?

Is there anyway to combine these 2 commands into 1? exec("convert flatcover.jpg -crop 96x710+0+0 +repage -virtual-pixel transparent -matte +distort Perspective '0,0,0,0, 0,710,5,229, 96,0,18,6, 96,710,20,242' -sharpen 3x2 spine.png); exec("convert spine.png spine_opac.png -alpha Off -compose Copy ...

Muuuhaa...
Worked perfectly.. let me start on the next steps... thanks a ton... will keep you updated.

Hmm... So, it seems I have go with the mask method.... Well, I am trying it now.. and somehow I am not getting the transparent output .. here is my code "convert spine_mask.png spine.png -composite -alpha Off -compose Copy_Opacity spinenew.png" I have tried with "-virtual-pixel transparent" but ...

Here is what would happen with masking.



by just cropping edges will not give the real effect...

Yup... but that will not give the actual curved effect to elements near the edges like the top border and the bottom... I have used the perspective method successfully but it doesnt give that perfect one.. Here is the one generated by IM http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7016/ecovery.jpg But I need ...

I understand what you are saying.. but the output wont be what it should be.

see this is how the images going to be.



if we just mask that the rest of the stuff will be straight and wont give that effect

Its not plain color its going to be an ecover so there are going to be gradients, images, horizontal lines in between as image as above, it cannot be cropped either as there are going to be lines inbetween here is the command i used to generated earlier output. exec("convert flat_cover.jpg -crop ...

I have seen that example earlier and it has straight lines no curves.. I did many tries so forgot which code generated that output.. I am trying to replicate that effect and keep you posted.. but all i know that i put some stupid values in coordinates which doesnt make sense.. anyway let me try that ...

I was actually trying to achieve the following with BilinearReverse but now it seems Polynomial '1.5 is an alternative.. here is the thread I wanted actually help for

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19247

The box3d code doesnt give those finishing values... as I said the spine has bit curves or would that be called as spherize? I am still trying.. and here is what my first attempt is.. LOL http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/513/testing1v.png Somehow just not able to get the right coordinates. as I am ...