Linda, I do not know enough about doing things in PHP. The user Bonzo (http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/) is more familiar with PHP. But in command line, you can use parentheses to do things without creating specific images. You can also use memory mapped images to hold temporaries. You can also make clones of images.
See: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#image_seq http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#mpr convert -size ${width}x${height} gradient:white-black -distort perspective "all your control points" -write mpr:image1 +delete mpr:image1 -flop -write mpr:image2 mpr:image1 -flop -flip -write mpr:image3 mpr:image1 -flip -write mpr:image4 | montage -background black mpr:image1 mpr:image2 mpr:image3 mpr:image4 -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 output.png You may have to reorder the images as I did not quite follow your scheme below. Again, I do not know if this works in PHP (as mpr only stays around in a single command line which is why I used the pipe). Also I do not know about using the pipe shell operator in PHP. You can also use append to combine the images. See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#append If your image is symmetric then you don't need to create all four, only two. Try this test. I make a gradient, clone and flop it horizontally and append them side by side, then flip a clone of that result vertically and append that vertically with the first append. convert \( -size 100x100 gradient: \) \( +clone -flop \) +append \( +clone -flip \) -append tmp.png You can probably do the same by adding your gradient and perspective into the first parenthesis. What I do not know is if you can use parenthesis in PHP as I have done in command line. Fred >Thanks Fred, that worked perfectly. Now is there a way to make the >images temporary so that only the final montage will be output into >my directory? > > > ><? >$w=50; >$h=50; > >$ax1=0; >$ay1=0; >$cx1=0; >$cy1=$h/5; > >$ax2=0; >$ay2=$h-$h/5; >$cx2=$w/3; >$cy2=$h; > >$ax3=$w; >$ay3=$h/3; >$cx3=$w; >$cy3=0; > >$ax4=$w; >$ay4=$h; >$cx4=$w; >$cy4=$h/5; > >$IN="-size \($w\)x\($h\) gradient:white-black"; >$OUT1="temp/gradangle1f.png"; >$OUT2="temp/gradangle2f.png"; >$OUT3="temp/gradangle3f.png"; >$ILLUSTRATE="-distort Perspective '$ax1,$ay1,$cx1,$cy1 >$ax2,$ay2,$cx2,$cy2 $ax3,$ay3,$cx3,$cy3 $ax4,$ay4,$cx4,$cy4' "; >$OUT4="temp/gradangle4f.png"; >exec ("/usr/bin/convert $IN $ILLUSTRATE $OUT4"); >exec ("/usr/bin/convert $OUT4 -flop $OUT3"); >exec ("/usr/bin/convert $OUT4 -flop -flip $OUT1"); >exec ("/usr/bin/convert $OUT4 -flip $OUT2"); >exec ("/usr/bin/montage -background black $OUT1 $OUT2 $OUT3 $OUT4 >-tile 2X2 -geometry +0+0 temp/G140f.png"); > >print "<a href=temp/G140f.png><img src=temp/G140f.png></a><br>"; >?> > > _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
