Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I've been using the following command in a perl script for a long time: system(qq{convert images/"$sku".jpg -resize "$width"x"$height" -alpha set -virtual-pixel transparent -channel A -blur 0x10 -level 50%,100% +channel -background white -flatten -quantize RGB -quality ...

This should work but it just doesn't: $image->Set(alpha=>'Set'); $image->Set('virtual-pixel'=>'Transparent'); $image->Blur(geometry=>'0x8',channel=>'A'); $image->Level(levels=>'50%,100%',channel=>'A'); I'm trying to replicate this: convert thumbnail.gif -alpha set -virtual-pixel transparent -channel...

I'm trying to deconstruct this line from the examples so I can convert it to Perlmagick: convert thumbnail.gif -alpha set -virtual-pixel transparent -channel A -blur 0x8 -level 50%,100% +channel soft_edge.png Can someone tell me the sequence of events? I have these Perlmagick commands: $image->Set(a...

Thanks fmw42. Can any PerlMagick experts out there point me in the right direction?

Can anyone show me how to use soft edges with PerlMagick?

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#soft_edges

I'm looking for something along the lines of this:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbn ... t_edge.png

I don't want to use true transparency because I'll be saving in JPG format.

I'd like to use imagemagick to create a border that fades to the desired color. Gimp has something like this at Filters->Decor->Fuzzy Border:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/script-fu-fuzzy-border.html

Can this be done in imagemagick?