[ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect

2009-06-11 Thread Clarke Bishop
I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image of a personalized, engraved item. I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image will be dynamically generated from

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect

2009-06-11 Thread Teddy R. Payne
Clarke, Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you are already using one. ;-) The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk -

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect

2009-06-11 Thread Clarke Bishop
Thanks Teddy! I can use ImageDrawText() to write text on top of the image, but I want to make the text look engraved. ImageDrawText can’t do that as far as I can tell. The text has to distort the underlying image to make this look right. You can do things like this in Photoshop, and I was

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect

2009-06-11 Thread John Mason
So you'll need to look closely at the distortion that photoshop is doing to re-create the effect. It be take several steps like an inner bevel then a shadow, etc. But this should be possible. John ma...@fusionlink.com Clarke Bishop wrote: Thanks Teddy! I can use ImageDrawText() to