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For creating of self framed picture you can find a description in the usage pages of ImageMagick

look here

I had improved the first example bit and put everything in a script "selfframe" so that I can apply it easyly on a picture. You find the script at the bottom.

The script is called with one parameter, the name of the picture. It uses only one convert command which does the following:

1. load the picture
2. clone it (make a copy in a "layer").This is the underlying frame-picture.
3. resize the layer by 30%
4. adjust the color with +level
5. blur the layer
6. add a black border around the image
7. clone the original image again, This is the original picture on top of the frame-picture.
8. draw a border raound this image
9. delete the original image because it is not used anymore.
10. center then images above each other and composite them
11. save the picture with a prefix sf_ to the filename

You can do some more adjustments to the underlying frame. For example you could convert it to b/w with -modulate 100,0,100 before adding the border or blur it several times.

Here comes the script:

#!/bin/bash

# selfframe

# creating a self framed picture



DEBUG="ON"

For creating of self framed picture you can find a description in the usage pages of ImageMagick

look here

I had improved the first example bit and put everything in a script "selfframe" so that I can apply it easyly on a picture. You find the script at the bottom.

The script is called with one parameter, the name of the picture. It uses only one convert command which does the following:

1. load the picture
2. clone it (make a copy in a "layer").This is the underlying frame-picture.
3. resize the layer by 30%
4. adjust the color with +level
5. blur the layer
6. add a black border around the image
7. clone the original image again, This is the original picture on top of the frame-picture.
8. draw a border raound this image
9. delete the original image because it is not used anymore.
10. center then images above each other and composite them
11. save the picture with a prefix sf_ to the filename

You can do some more adjustments to the underlying frame. For example you could convert it to b/w with -modulate 100,0,100 before adding the border or blur it several times.

Here comes the script:

#!/bin/bash

# selfframe

# creating a self framed picture



DEBUG="ON"

PICTURE="$1"

PDIR=`dirname ${PICTURE}`

PNAME=`basename ${PICTURE}`



if [ $DEBUG = "ON" ]

then

	echo "Picture=${PICTURE}"

	echo "PDIR=${PDIR}"

	echo "PNAME=${PNAME}"



fi 

convert ${PICTURE}  \

	\( -clone 0 -resize 130% +level 20%x100% \

	-blur 0x20 -bordercolor black -border 10x10 \) \

	\( -clone 0 -bordercolor black -border 10x10 \) \

	-delete 0 -gravity center -composite "$PDIR/sf_${PNAME}"

PICTURE="$1"
PDIR=`dirname ${PICTURE}`
PNAME=`basename ${PICTURE}`

if [ $DEBUG = "ON" ]
then
echo "Picture=${PICTURE}"
echo "PDIR=${PDIR}"
echo "PNAME=${PNAME}"

fi
convert ${PICTURE} \
\( -clone 0 -resize 130% +level 20%x100% \
-blur 0x20 -bordercolor black -border 10x10 \) \
\( -clone 0 -bordercolor black -border 10x10 \) \
-delete 0 -gravity center -composite "$PDIR/sf_${PNAME}"