Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

man this is great - this works beautifully! Thank you very much for the help. Now I've gotta dissect and figure out exactly what's goin on in this batch script exactly . Thanks again.

Just attempted to run the above command - but the inGrid2.png output seemed to be the same thing as the input (inGrid.png).. no? at any rate - I tried to run the batch file again with inGrid2.png as the input and it produced that same ghost image I posted above.

Here is the grid & mask.

http://doir.ir/inGrid.png
http://doir.ir/inMask.png

I processed the images above through the batch script, and the image I posted a moment ago was the result.

snibgo, thanks for your suggestions - I should have actually uploaded the PNG of the grid I was using rather than taking a screenshot (the grid has a transparent background) so using the batch script produces an ghost image underneath.. e.g. http://doir.ir/u/hKFSwEOc.png Using masks in photoshop ...

I know Imagemagick supports 'variable blur mapping' which lets you supply an image + gradient, and the image is blurred using the gradient as a mask to determine blur intensity. I've looked through as much documentation as I could but can't seem to find a way to use a 'variable mapping' procedure ...