The goal of this adventure was to find the font that looked the best on a Massachusetts license plate, using ImageMagick. I got the list of fonts using -list type fonts. This was run on two servers with different versions of ImageMagick, so there a… more »

Sprites allow you to combine many images into a single file, reducing both the number of requests and bandwidth required to deliver pages.I had 51 images, each was about 10K, so the total was about 510K. These images had dimensions of about 250p… more »

This is a bash script which accepts an image file, determines the width and height, and creates five vertical segments. It can be used to create a 'puzzle', tiles, CAPTCHA sequences and other interesting visual effects. #!/bin/bash if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]… more »

This reduces the opacity of the logo to 10%. convert logo.png +flatten -alpha on -channel A -evaluate set 10% +channel opac.png more »

Creating rounded rectangles has become a bit of a quest. This blog links to a utility that lets you create a rounded rectangle image that can be used in a page to help organize the content (http://wirehopper.com/design/rounded.php). It has a link to… more »