Glow text on image... how to place on picture..

[dognose]

so, I'm working on adding glowing text to an image, and I've gotten pretty far with the examples, and I can
produce it on a white background.

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convert -size 200x200 xc:none -pointsize 40 -fill green -draw \"text 0,90 'Glowing'\"  -matte  \( +clone -background red -shadow 90x7+2+2 \)  +swap -background white -flatten output.gif

My problem however is with how to put this on a picture, instead of using the "-background white" part.

I can't start with a picture, because the shadow option shadows the whole picture.

I can't use -background transparent, because the shadow/glow doesn't show up.

I guess my main problem is handling multiple frames in a single command and getting them to merge correctly.

Any hints?

[el_supremo]

I can't get it to work with GIF either, but it will work if you can use PNG. Change -background to transparent (or none) and use output.png as the result file.

Pete

[Bonzo]

This probably will not help but this puts the text on the image:

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convert 021207140232.jpg \( -size 200x200 xc:none -pointsize 40 -fill green -draw \"text 0,90 'Glowing'\" \) -composite output.gif

or

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convert 021207140232.jpg \( -size 200x200 xc:none -pointsize 40 -fill green -draw \"text 0,90 'Glowing'\" -matte \( +clone -background red -shadow 90x7+2+2 \) +swap -background none -flatten \) -composite output.gif

I think it must be ignoring the parenthases inside the parenthases.

[anthony]

Parentheses in parenthesis should work.

In any case replace

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-background white -flatten

with

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image.jpg +swap -composite

shoudl do the job