Special Effects with Imagemagick C or C++

[misha7878]

I found special effects that can be done on a website button or anything really that lends itself to these sort of effects, but I'm not really an art/photoshop guy and don't know all the secrets on how to do these effects, can someone post some code or refer me to the proper place. I'm interested in using Imagemagick, because the effects need to be generated automatically.

Maybe el_supremo can help or anyone else

This is the url for the effects

http://www.grsites.com/generate/generator/2001/

I'm interested in knowing how to produce all of them, but any help on producing some would be appreciated.

Below are all the categories just for reference,so everyone is clear about what I'm refering to:
Button Shape:
Button Style:
Button Outline:
Mouse Over Effect:
Button Shadow:

each of the above categories had options, Some seem harder to do then others. If anyone has code in C or C++ that would be great.

[fmw42]

In command line, see

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#fluff (and all that follows)
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#3d-logos
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#gel_effects

IM does not do mouse overs. IM is strickly image processing. You will need javascript or something other to get those effects.

[el_supremo]

See the "Better 3-D Logo Generation" and "Gel Effects" examples linked in my sig file.
Those should get you started.

Pete

[misha7878]

Fred, Pete

Thanks for your responses. I already saw all these links before and they are definitely good. The c/c++ stuff is what I need, I was hoping someone had a way of doing these other effects in c/c++ already figured out. Because Imagemagick is a hard library to master, at least for me. Maybe someone can show me a thing or two on making these effects. As far as the rollovers, I can do the javascript pretty well, I just need to know how to make the images for before and after the rollover. Meaning the image special effects. That s all. that s my problem.

[fmw42]

Unfortunately, I only use the command line. I don't know any of the IM APIs. So I cannot help much further.