Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Three more lines to do a shadow is not something I’d get to on my own. ImageMagick is one of the most powerful and confusing CLI tools I’ve ever used. Even looking at the documentation, I don’t understand everything about the code, like what mpr:img does or how clone actually works and why it’s ...

Thank you very much, fmw42. Only thing missing is the drop shadow on the top image. I tried it on my own but it’s harder than it looked.

You start by saying the canvas should be 800x600. But then you say the background should be 800x640.


That was a mistake, sorry. Fixed. It should be 800x600.


Are you saying you just want to take a large image and resize in proportion to a max of 800x600 [snip] and blur it?


More accurately ...

What I’m trying to do is, given an image:
https://i.imgur.com/E2CAeAd.jpg

Produce a “presentation” of it in a specific format:
https://i.imgur.com/Knn3AXX.png

The input image can be of any dimensions, vertical or horizontal. The result is:
A canvas of 800x600. The background is the image ...