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Created September 24, 2020 10:20
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Create a decent but narrow shadow with Imagemagick
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drop-shadow.sh
#!/bin/bash
if [[ -f "${1}" ]]; then
tmp="${1%.*}"
convert "${1}" \( +clone -background gray -shadow 80x8+8+8 \) +swap -background white -layers merge +repage "${tmp}_drop-shadow.png"
fi
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sergey-alekseev commented Oct 1, 2020

Can you post some image examples? @vadviktor

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vadviktor commented Oct 2, 2020

Original

screenshot-2020-10-02_08-46-30

Applied shadow

screenshot-2020-10-02_08-46-30_drop-shadow

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sergey-alekseev commented Oct 2, 2020

Nice. Reminds me a shadow added on Mac when you make a screenshot of a selected window, example:
Screen Shot 2020-10-02 at 16 56 51

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vadviktor commented Oct 2, 2020

Exactly, that was the base of my initial search which led me to https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/384323/create-macos-style-screenshots-with-drop-shadow-using-imagemagick from where I adapted most of the code, but tweaked it to my taste 😄

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