[magick-users] help with overlaying text

[Fred Weinhaus]

convert -background none -font poor-richard -pointsize 24 -fill blue \
	-gravity center label:"My Text Here" tmp.png


see various methods for making text into images:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#draw
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#annotate


http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/canvas/#other   (transparent canvas)


you might want to look at my new script, texteffects, which can be found at
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.html





>I have read for 3 hours but can't find how to make the picture image
>show through behind the text.  I get a box around the text that covers
>the picture.  How do I make the color inside the box transparent?
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>convert -size 300x -background transparent -fill blue -font poor-richard
>label:"My Text Here" text.jpg
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>composite -geometry +200+1 text.jpg picture.jpg result.jpg
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>Thanks,
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>Keith