[magick-users] Making a Drop Shadow Text Image

[Robert Parker]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Fred Weinhaus <fmw at alink.net> wrote:

> You can use the color "none" with xc: as  (xc:none) to make a
> transparent background image.
> You can use any color defined per http://imagemagick.org/script/color.php
>
> Make the background much bigger than you need, add the text, then use
> -trim to trim the excess area, then use -border to add any border
> back that you want.
>
> See
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
>
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/
>
>
> I have a script also that does lots of text effects. See texteffect script
> at
> http:/www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.html
>
> Fred,

Thank you. I have read - briefly - and bookmarked all of these links.
I'll be making my script later today.

Bob