Freehand Draw - Released

The freehand draw feature described a few days ago is now available. I'll be posting a video tutorial for it shortly.The opacity allows a highlighter effect when merged "over" the image or .

You can use the merge "under" control with a transparent image like a dingbat to produce important works such as the one below:

Some innovative enhancements for this tool are in the works and can hopefully added later

Arc Distortion Effect

A interesting new effect is available in the IM editor effect library. Arc distortion lets you bend text or any image into an arc.



Command: -rotate 0 -virtual-pixel Background - background \#ffffff -distort Arc '120 0'

The background color in the command is the color IM uses to fill the empty space created when the effect is applied. 120 is the number of degrees in the ARC. Set it to 360 and text is bent into a full circle.




Command: -rotate 0 -virtual-pixel Transparent -distort Arc '120 0'

Starts with a transparent image. In this case, the empty space is filled with transparent pixels



Command: -rotate 180 -virtual-pixel Transparent -distort Arc '120 180'

To reverse the arc apply some rotation applied:

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.