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Hi all,
I have spent hours with working magicwand. But there is not enough information on the net.
So I hope someone can me give me some tricks and tips.
Well, all i want to do is.
1-Create blank transparent image.
2-Add new images on it, rotate(without anybackgound), scale them to width and height.
3-Add some text items, rotate, scale them to desired width and height.
But I could not manage to add more than one image to base image.
I cound not manage to rotate added image without any backgound(i.e. transparent)
I will be very glad for responses.
Thank you.

I am sorry, but I know nothing about using IM with the PHP API.

With regard to adding images to a background, see the following recent post with Anthony's excellent solution for adding multiple images to a black background. Just chance black to the work "none". Then use different images in place of +clone.

With regard to rotating and having a transparent background, do the same kind of thing, namely,

convert <image> -background none -rotate xx <result>

Hope that helps.


Fred

The problem is that the people who make use of MagicWand, don't publish information that much. There are very few examples, and help. Mind you before I started IM Examples for the command line, that was in the same boat.

Thanks to those examples IM has grown with a huge influx of people making use of the package. unfortunately we are not getting the same influx for C programming, that is needed to help IM develop quicker. It's just not as sexy as some of the other packages with a graphical interface.

try posting to the magicwand forum viewforum.php?f=6