Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

When I first started to program VBA scripts to use IM with Excel, I run into the same problem as many others before. Dim objIM Dim myimage(1) Set objIM = CreateObject("ImageMagickObject.MagickImage.1") caused an error message: Runtime Error 429 - ActiveX Component Can't Create Object My search on ...

temp.bmp ( -clone 0 -background black -shadow 80x1+1+1 ) ^ +swap -background none -layers merge +repage ^ -crop 99x46+0+0 -define bmp3:alpha=true BMP3:result.bmp That's the magic formula! Now I run some hundred images through my batch process :)! Thank you very much! http://cm.1540.info/temp/temp ...

I tested the settings as proposed, but changed after a first test to -shadow -shadow 50x1+1+1 http://cm.1540.info/temp/temp_shadow.bmp Two unexpected things happend: the new image is sized 103x50 pixel instead of 99x46, and the whole image looks much darker now. Just to mention both effects were ...

You are to kind. Please forgive me to be so noob! The image I like to add shadows is this: http://cm.1540.info/temp/temp.bmp Since it's a BMP, the transparent parts are not shown in the browser. It seems that at least my firefox can't handle bmp transparency. Never mind, the image is not supossed to ...

Yes, thanks you. The problem is not the shadow, I just don't understand how to select the non-transparent part

Another question.
I would now like to select the non-transparent part of the my image and put a little 'drop-shadow' effect on it. The image should not change the size.

like this:

Put -background #ec5b18 before -alpha background helped. Thanx a lot

Since this is my first post here: hi folks! I'm currently working on some BMP images to mod a game. Because of that, I'm tied to the very specific BMP format that this game accepts. Step by step: I take a source BMP of shall we say 800x600 pixel, I -extent it to add some borders (same color as the ...