Imploding At Image Magick
Here's a new and exciting, discovery I made, well to me anyways. When I was searching and trying to find out how to animate, I clicked on the different buttons on Image Magick. I came across F/X and tried each one and when I saw what Implode did, I was so excited. I forgot all about animations. I now had another avenue to try. LOLI had seen a tutorial a while back that my friend Janet sent to me, but paid it no mind at the time, just put it away like all the other dozens of sites we all save and then remembered - hey this is what it was about!
So go ahead, try it. It's addicting. I know it was to me.
First step is to get a background and resize it to whatever your need is. This is an example of the bg I used (it is 64x64)
- I resized it and made it 170x170 to use on this sample of my finished one.
Now I put a frame around it 15x15 - indigo for color.
Next step is to click on F/X on Image Magick.
A box will show a number of 60 in it, delete it and put in -70.
Make sure the IMPLODE button is checked
Then click on "EFFECT"
If you don't like the effect you can just change the number.
A lower number gives you a smaller inside dimension.
Below is one done with a -70.
Next step is to composite a gif.
Gravity = CENTER
Location +0+0
Click on "COMPOSITE"
This is the finished product:
Now depending on the number you put in, all sorts of looks can be had. If you use a rectangle to start with you will get an oval look.
If you use a number without the minus - sign, you will get something like this:
You can have so much variety with this. You can implode before you put a frame on it and it will be recessed and then you can add the frame and composite an image. I'm not an expert on this, just having fun with my little black box.
~Lee~
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