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From: Bill Radcliffe <BillR@corbis.com>
To: "'Steve Sapovits'" <SapovitsS@globalsportsinc.com>,
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Subject: RE: Transparency question
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:06:44 -0800
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It would help me if you could send some small samples of exactly the effect
you are trying to achieve. I'm sure IM can do whatever you want but the road
to get there may not be at all obvious.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Sapovits [SMTP:SapovitsS@globalsportsinc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:32 AM
> To:	Steve Sapovits; magick@wizards.dupont.com
> Subject:	RE: Transparency question
> 
> 
> Someone on this list and my image folks here seem to confirm that the
> problem
> here is with 'fringe' pixels that were not trimmed back as neatly as
> possible.  Any
> suggestions for automating this?  This whole thing needs to be batched.  I
> played
> with the transparency and fuzz options with no real difference noted.
> Trying 
> crop 0x0 makes some of the fringe whitespace areas neater, but it doesn't
> get rid
> of them.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Steve Sapovits [SMTP:SapovitsS@globalsportsinc.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:58 AM
> > To:	magick@wizards.dupont.com
> > Subject:	Transparency question
> > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to do the following:
> > 
> > 1)  Take a JPEG image and size it down to a particular size.
> > 2)  Overlay that JPEG on top of an GIF image to form a combined result.
> > 
> > This works fine for the most part:  I use mogrify to resize, followed by
> 
> > combine to overlay.
> > 
> > Now I'm presented with GIF images (the ones the JPEG is put on top of)
> > that have colors or other background attributes we want to 'show
> through'
> > the overlay where there is no image.
> > 
> > Even without any transparency options this seems to ALMOST work.  The
> > problem is that there's a small area around each image of 'white' that
> > always
> > shows up.  Trying transparency or the 'matte' option of '-draw' seems to
> > have
> > no effect.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I'm an engineer -- not an image expert.  The images in
> > question
> > are handed to me.  I can change them if necessary and if it can be done
> > via
> > the ImageMagick tool.  The volume we generate makes manual changes to 
> > each image out of the question.
> > 
> > ----
> > Steve Sapovits
> > Global Sports Interactive
> > Work Email: sapovitss@globalsportsinc.com
> > Home Email: steves@delanet.com
> > Work Phone: 610-491-7087
> > Cell:       610-574-7706
> > Pager:      877-239-4003
> > 
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