Sunday, November 30, 2008

Glitter, Edge Effects.

Added some new effects in the ImageMagick library.

- Glitter fill: Fill a GIF image with blue glitter. In the next few weeks, this feature will be expanded with additional fills and better interface. Consider this just a preview.

- Torn Edge, Soft Edge, Vignette: Some edge effects. Note that currently, some of these require a PNG format image. You can convert to PNG with the function on the effects toolbar. Converting back to JPG will kill some of the effect because transparency is lost.

I'll try to improve these effects in the future.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Clipart collection, Colorizer tool

A clipart collection has been added to the dingmapper. In addition to normal dingbats, clipart can be inserted from the dingmapper. Look for the dingbat category 'Clipart' and insert as usual.

Its just getting started and I'm actively adding new material.

Note that the size setting in the dingmapper has no effect when inserting clipart. The images are inserted at their largest possible size and can be resized up or down once in FIG. It works normally when inserting dingbats.

You can color clipart using the colorize tool on the effect bar.

I'm leaving greyscale clipart images a medium grey color when posting them. This allows the image much more flexibility for coloring.

Set the colorizer to 100% strength to achieve the highest color intensity (including black) on any image.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Convert image to PNG / JPG. negative image

Added 3 new functions to the effect bar.

The first two enable conversion of file format to PNG or JPG formats. These are useful as some effects require alpha transparency available in PNG format.

Use of GIF images is not recommended. Transparent GIF has been disabled because of poor image quality. PNG image is a much better alternative.

The thirsd is negative image which changes colors of the current image to their inverse. Black to white, white to black, etc