iMAGICK TOOTS Written by BECKY & FLO

SHADOW DRAW AT IMAGE MAGICK by Becky These directions work for MSN TV users only. Computer users will need to find tutorials written for them. For this tutorial, we are using Arbor IM. For the first article on Shadows, please see the January issue. For this tutorial, we will be using a 300x300 white blank. Once you have uploaded your image and clicked on "View", click on the "Draw" tab, located at the top of the page. Click on the "Primitive" button and choose "Rectangle" First set of coordinates: tells you how far from the left edge and how far down from the top you want your circle. Second set: is how far from the right edge and how far from the bottom you want your rectangle +20+20 +280+280 Delete the Fill Color Stroke Color.. darkgreen Stroke Width.. 5 Click on Draw When the screen has loaded, you have your rectangle. Click on the "Effects" tab, delete what is in the Parameter box and enter 10x10 Click on the radio button next to "Blur". Click on "Effect". Return to "draw". Your draw information should still be there. Just click on "draw". When you are finished, click on the "Output tab. In the "Format" box, select the type of output image. Select .gif or jpeg or leave as a .jpg. Click. Move cursor down to "Storage Type" and click on "single file." Click on "output." TL in the spaces provided or else click on the thumbnail image. This will then show you the full sized image. Use your "Go To" key and select "Show Current." Copy the URL that appears and paste it into your File Manager. Here are two examples of what you can do with Shadow Draw: Here's a cute image by Becky (beckylpn, not the Becky who writes this column). You can see clearly the features of the pixie, but in foggy or shadowy aspect behind the full-saturation pixie image. This is just another use for shadows. Instead of using one of the Draw primitives, Becky used one of the new composites to produce this "shadow." COLORBURN UPDATE by Flo Since the publication of the January issue, the Composite ColorBurn's function has changed at Arbor's IM. For the following tests Flo used a Netscape bg image, as it has all the colors in cubes. If you have a totally black gif on a transparent bg, ColorBurn will allow some colors from the bg image to show thru. It doesn't give a black cookie cutter type punch-out like it used to. But for a totally black gif as above, the use of Darken or Multiply will give the cookie cutter punch-out. For a colored gif on a transparent bg, forget ColorBurn, Darken and Multiply. Instead use DstOut! It'll give the punch-out, just like ColorBurn used to. So actually, instead of losing something, we've gained, as with ColorBurn and both black gifs and colored gifs on transparent bgs, we can get some effects we couldn't before. ColorBurn Darken ColorBurn DstOut Back to the Tribune Counted 2786