Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I am running an Ubuntu server with 8 cores. However imagemagick always only uses 1 single core. Running `identify -version` returns: Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 2012-08-17 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC Features: OpenMP So OpenMP which is ...

@snibgo: Like the other compose methods (linear-burn, multiply, difference, etc.) I would like to offer blur as a "blending effect option" for the user. You can find the source images here: Text: http://imgur.com/uEzr12x,dGZX7sG#0 Background: http://imgur.com/uEzr12x,dGZX7sG#1 @fmw42: I have thought ...

Well I wanted to use it for a script in the same context as the other -compose options like e.g. hard-light (see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/compose.php ) - so in the same syntax and order: -compose blur 400 instead of -compose hard-light Your proposal to blur the image before overlaying is a ...

@snibgo: I use geometry to position the text layer on the background image.

I need this option since the positioning comes from a user input. I don't know how big the two images are.

@fmw42: That's the reason as well why I can't use the convert command.

I am composing an image from two input images - one with text and one background image. When using the composite -blur option I get black areas to the right and to the bottom of the overlaying text. Example here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/zrVpD.png This is my imagemagick command: composite -blur 400 ...