[ILUG] Re: [Webdev] Watermarking pictures

Fintan Ryan fintan.ryan at ireland.sun.com
Fri Sep 22 12:59:33 IST 2000


> around. I want to put a mark on an existing picture. This is usually done
> with some kind of a mask which is applied to the picture with a bevelled
> edge so that the desired watermarking symbol appears to be embossed into (or
> out of) the picture. A little hunting reveals that there are a number of
> 'doze packages which do this but I was sure that I had read that some
> combination of pnm or Imagemagick utilities could do it. However, some
> serious RTFMing and experimentation later, I've had no joy.

There is a function in the PerlMagick package called Label() which may
be of use.
Or maybe using the Montage() function from the same module. 

I haven't fiddled around with either function so I can't tell you if it
works, but it could be worth looking at.

l8r,
Fintan
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Fintan Ryan, Software Engineer, SunConfigs	
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