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Hello there.
I'm totally new to ImageMagick and just want to create one effect and not totally learn all the mathematics behind.
So I would just ask you for help.
I want to create a shadow dynamicly via command line, like in this example:

As you see, it's just a very small on the left bottom.

Pretty much like in this example (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#shadow3d), but way smaller and maybe softer: But I don't really get through the coefficients of Affine Projection.
So I'd be really pleased if someone could help me out with this.
Thx

Here is an image that I put a shadow on. I made it on a transparent background so it can be placed (flattened) over any background image. But you can change the background color or the other parameters.


shadowval="gray(85)" <--- brightness of shadow (larger values are brighter)
shadowblur=20 <--- blur distance around outside of shadow
shadowx=50 <--- width of shadow from bottom left corner of image
shadowy=25 <--- height of shadow from bottom left corner of image
bgcolor="none" <--- background color



shadowval="gray(70)"
shadowblur=10
shadowx=50
shadowy=25
bgcolor="none"
shadowblur2=`convert xc: -format "%[fx:1.414*$shadowblur]" info:`
convert \( zelda3.png -flip +distort SRT '0,0 1,-1 0' \) \
\( +clone -background $shadowval -shadow 60x${shadowblur}+0+0 \
-virtual-pixel Transparent +distort Affine "0,0 0,0 100,0 100,0 0,100 $shadowx,$shadowy" \) \
+swap -background "$bgcolor" -layers merge \
-fuzz 2% -trim +repage -gravity east -chop ${shadowblur2}x0 zelda3_shadow.png





Affine "0,0 0,0 100,0 100,0 0,100 $shadowx,$shadowy"

Due to the tricks in line 1, the coordinates in the Affine are measure from the bottom. The first 0,0 0,0 means to leave the bottom left unchanged. Similarly, 100,0 100,0 means leave the bottom right unchanged. The 0,100 $shadowx,$shadowy means shift the top right and left corners (since it is affine) by the amounts specified where x is to the left. The 100 means percentage of width or height and thus similarly for the shadowx,shadowy. So 50,25 means the x or width of the shadow (shown) will be 50% and the y or height of the shadow (shown) will be 25% of the image.

Here is a smaller shadow:

shadowval="gray(95)"
shadowblur=10
shadowx=10
shadowy=10
bgcolor="none"
shadowblur2=`convert xc: -format "%[fx:1.414*$shadowblur]" info:`
convert \( zelda3.png -flip +distort SRT '0,0 1,-1 0' \) \
\( +clone -background $shadowval -shadow 60x${shadowblur}+0+0 \
-virtual-pixel Transparent +distort Affine "0,0 0,0 100,0 100,0 0,100 $shadowx,$shadowy" \) \
+swap -background "$bgcolor" -layers merge \
-fuzz 2% -trim +repage -gravity east -chop ${shadowblur2}x0 zelda3_shadow2.png

Thx, but I get an error...

What OS? What version of IM? Can you provide the URL of your image?

OS is Debian 5.0.4
IM is 6.3.7
URL of Testimage is: http://home.arcor.de/axeff159/images/project1.png

That's a very old version of IM. fmw's script works fine for me in a slightly less old 6.4.5 on Ubuntu.

I suggest you update IM.

I believe the earliest distorts were introduced about IM 6.3.6, so all of the ones you may need may not yet have been available by 6.3.7 or may not have been working 100%.


type

convert -list distort

and see if SRT and Affine are listed. If not your IM is too old. Best to upgrade to be sure that all bugs were worked out of these distorts.