Online Examples of ImageMagick

[Lina]

Dear Sir Anthony or anybody who can help me,

First off, I am completely newbie on computers but has patience and willing to learn. If my questions seem so basic and idiotic, please pardon me.

I've been searching the web about imagemagick tutorials and found many but most geared to webtv users. I like their tutorials because they are simple to follow and understand for a non-techie like me.

The problem is I am not a webtv user. Are there interface like the imagemagick studio that I can use online to try imagemagick first before I download imagemagick fully on my computer?

The reason I ask, I've been using imagemagick studio to practice while following through Sir Anthony Thyssen's ImageMagick Examples but seems imagemagick studio is not complete.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Lina

[Lina]

Dear All,

Here's my problem:

I downloaded this image to ImageMagick Studio:

http://www.wtv-zone.com/LaDeBoheme/stud ... /book2.gif

What I want is to write this caption of texts on the first page of the book:

"Three wishes of every person: to be healthy, to get rich with honest means and to be beautiful" - Plato

I used annotate to write the text but the whole line goes even to the second page. I want it only on the first page as one paragraph with maybe three to four lines.

What will I use to do it in the ImageMagick Studio?

Thanks for your help.

Lina

[Bonzo]

You could try something like this:

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convert book.gif -pointsize 10 -gravity northwest -annotate +0+0 '"Three wishes of every person:' -annotate +0+20 'to be healthy, to get rich with honest means' -annotate +0+40 'and to be beautiful" - Plato' output.gif

[Lina]

Bonzo,

Thanks for your reply.

Where will I get convert from ImageMagick Studio command line?

ImageMagick Studio has menu like these:

top: Input, Output, View, Identify, Colormap, Resize, Transform
below: Enhance, Effects, F/X, Decorate, Annotate, Draw, Composite

Thanks, again.

Lina

[Bonzo]

Sorry I didn't realise as I do not use the studio page; all you need to do is change the font size and put your text in with line breaks e.g.

"Three wishes of every person:
to be healthy, to get rich with honest means
and to be beautiful" - Plato

[Lina]

Bonzo,

I tried through trial and error changing gravity 'till the text is on desired place but then when I annotate the second line, the first line of texts is out. What will I do?

Thanks,

Lina

[Lina]

Bonzo,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Now, it's ok.

Please hang on with me because I need help after placing text.

Thanks, thanks, thanks.

Lina

[Lina]

Bonzo,

Now, I need your help.

How can I change the red shades of the book to dark green shades in ImageMagick Studio?
I tried decorate but didn't work.

Thanks.

Lina

[Lina]

Bonzo,

Actually, these are my problems:

1. how to change the red shades of the book to dark green?
2. or, if I will use blank book image, how will I put a dark green color instead of red?
3. I want to change the flower image to different image, how will I do this?
4. or, if I will use blank book image, how will I put new image to the second page of the book?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Maria Lina

[Bonzo]

You can change the colour with -fill green ( the new colour ) and -opaque red ( the old colour ). In this case your red on the rose would change as well.

You could mask out the rose if you wanted to keep the red.

To remove the rose I would simply create a white image and place it over the rose.


Just quick modifications.

I would say what you are looking to do is beyond imagemagick studio.

[Lina]

Bonzo,

Thanks for your reply.

Where will I find -Fill color? On Paint Attributes or Annotate? I tried both but didn't work.

Thanks a lot for your time and patience. Please bear with me because I am new in all matters about computers. I want to use the Studio first because I don't need assistance to download it, it runs on the web.

Anyway, I'll wait for your reply. Thanks.

Maria Lina

[Bonzo]

I could not see a way to do it on Imagmagick studio and so could not post any instructions. As I said at the bottom of my last post I think you need more than just the studio software to do this.

How were you intending on using ImageMagick - on a windows PC, Linux machine or website ?

It may be best to just use something like Gimp as you said in one of your other posts as that has a "Graphic user interface" and so you can see what is happening.

[Lina]

Thanks, Bonzo.

I'll try GIMP, as you suggest.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Lina