Place a Text with transparent background box onto a picture

[OscarWilde]

I've played around with IM the whole day but I'm not able to place a

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convert -font /font/arial.ttf -pointsize 42 -background \"#0008\" -fill white label:\"This is my label!\" input.jpg +swap -gravity SouthEast -composite output.jpg

This is the Result:

But what I need is this:


I have no Idea how to do this? Can anyone give me some help?

Frank

[Bonzo]

Try this:

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convert ( -size 500x50 xc:rgba(255,255,8,0.5) -font /font/arial.ttf -fill rgba(0,0,0,1) -pointsize 42 -gravity center -annotate +0+0 "This is my label!" ) input.jpg +swap -gravity SouthEast -geometry +0+20 -composite output.jpg

This creates a canvas first using a semi transparent rgb colour; the brackets hold this information together - might work without but it is easier to see what is happening.
The -geometry moves the watermark up from the bottom by 20 pixels.
I belive label fits the background to the text and that is why I made a canvas first; so you can have some space around the text. This can have complications if your text size changes.

Imagemagick has so many options it can be hard to work things out until you start to see how it works. You can check out Anthony's examples and I have a few on my site using php.

[fmw42]

This works for me on Unix. User your background color to specify half transparent yellow.

convert -font /font/arial.ttf -pointsize 42 -background "rgba(255,255,0,0.5)" -fill white label:"This is my label\!" input.jpg +swap -gravity SouthEast -composite output.jpg

or in hex colors

convert -font /font/arial.ttf -pointsize 42 -background "#ffff0088" -fill white label:"This is my label\!" input.jpg +swap -gravity SouthEast -composite output.jpg

You can add -geometry to offset the position from the bottom right corner if you want. see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#geometry
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert