Bordery of Photo Soften / "Fade out"

[anthony]

You are not very clear in your desires.

Are you wanting to add a color edge (like border), or something else.
See IM Exampes Borders
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... op/#border

[rmagick]

I think this script will do what you want. The tricky part is figuring out the dimensions of the opaque part. For simplicity it always makes the opaque part be 75% of the image's width and height. Of course you can change the "75 / 100" arithmetic to whatever fraction you want.

Save this code in a file named "vig.sh" and call it like this:

vig.sh <input-filename> <output-filename>

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#! /bin/bash -x

IMG=$1
DIMS=`identify -format "%w:%h" $IMG`
COLS=`echo $DIMS | cut -d: -f1`
ROWS=`echo $DIMS | cut -d: -f2`

HT=`expr $ROWS \* 75 / 100`
WD=`expr $COLS \* 75 / 100`
X1=`expr \( $COLS - $WD \) / 2`
Y1=`expr \( $ROWS - $HT \) / 2`
X2=`expr $X1 + $WD`
Y2=`expr $Y1 + $HT`

convert -size ${COLS}x${ROWS} xc:black \
-stroke white -fill white -draw "roundrectangle $X1,$Y1 $X2,$Y2 12,12" \
-blur 0x10 +matte mask.miff

composite -compose CopyOpacity mask.miff +matte $IMG $2

rm mask.miff
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[anthony]

Okay, I now understand....

But those are not very simple...

My simple, but very tricky solution...

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   convert  image.png   -matte -virtual-pixel transparent -channel A \
                 -blur 0x5 -fx '(u-.51)*2.1'  soft_edge.png

The size of the soft edge is controlable by the '-blur'
You can now -flatten or -compose it onto the background of your choice!

Added this to thumbnails section.
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... #soft_edge

Enjoy...