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- Short: soft borders v.0.6 (flexible IFX script)
- Author: carl.licke@swipnet.se (Carl Licke)
- Uploader: carl.licke@swipnet.se (Carl Licke)
- Version: 0.6
- Type: gfx/edit
- Requires: ImageFX
-
- Long:
- softborder v.0.6
- (visitware!)
-
- by: Carl Licke / Turbid design
- mailto:carl.licke@swipnet.se
- http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-24653/
-
- This is a great tool for creating soft borders, for use on web or print
- (or whatever you want).
-
- It needs ImageFX. Tested successfully with version 1.52.
- Please report bugs/problems, or if you know how to improve it.
-
- This script is visitware!
- If you use it, you have to visit my homepage (I'm so sorry for you :-),
- and have a look around:
- http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-24653/
-
- To read about my programs and see examples, click on "software: Amiga".
-
- If you have used this script for a webpage, I would appreciate to get
- the URL to it!
-
- If you want, just drop me a mail (carl.licke@swipnet.se).
-
-
- features
- --------
- * borderpattern support
- * selectable bordercolor
- * adjustable softness and size of borders
- * adjustable shade of picture
- * magic scissors support
- * remembers settings (until you reboot)
- * GUI
-
-
- installation
- ------------
- copy softborder.ifx to ImageFX:Rexx/
- (recommended, but not needed)
-
- You also need the assign ImageFX: for your ImageFX-path.
- I think you have that already.
-
-
- usage
- -----
- Start ImageFX and load/create an image.
- Select the Arexx button in ImageFX.
- In the filerequester, select the softborder.ifx file and OK.
- If everything went right, a GUI pops up.
- There are lots of options, but you probably won't need to care about
- so many of them to get a decent result.
- Play with it and you will get it, or read on.
- Here follows an explanation of the GUI:
-
- smoothness:
- How soft the border will be.
-
- border size:
- Thickness of border with gradient.
-
- shade:
- How dark the shadow will be.
- Or how yellow, if you selected yellow as shadowcolor.
-
- border increase:
- Thickness of border without gradient.
-
- magic scissors:
- If you check this, the most usual color (in the original image)
- will be removed.
- It will be replaced with white, or your selected bordercolor.
-
- background from swap:
- Uses the swap buffer as a borderpattern.
- If there is no swap, it uses the main buffer.
-
- pick color for backg.:
- If you check this and select the Okay button, the script will
- stop and wait for you to pick a color, either from the image
- or from the palette.
- The color of the border will be the one you selected.
- If you check both this and the "background from swap" options,
- then this won't have any effect.
-
- save these settings:
- Hmm... let me see... Ohh, yes, it saves your settings.
- But they will reset on reboot.
-
- You can change the defaults if you open the script in a
- texteditor, and find the note I left for you.
-
-
- history
- -------
- 0.6 - first release
-
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- future
- ------
- I WILL improve it (but I don't know how, mail me if you do).
-