How to Round Off a Rectangle




Newsgroup: Gypsy Jewels
From: WILLOW
Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2001

A while back I asked how to round the corners of a rectangle...
~Tootsie~ wrote me with the answer.
THANKS Tootsie!

Here are her wonderful instructions!

From: ~Tootsie~

Take this white gif to Image Magick

White Gif

Put in the URL in the box
Click on VIEW

On the next page
Click on RESIZE tab on the top of the page

On the next page,
In the IMAGE SIZE Box, delete what is in there and put:
400x300! (Making sure you put the Exclamation Mark right up against the last number)
Click on the Resize button

On the next page
Click on DRAW tab at top of page

Click on PRIMATIVE
Click on ROUND RECTANGLE
Coordinates: 20, 260, 320, 120, 40, 40
(If you want smaller put 10,130,160,60,20,20)
FILL COLOR I left white
STROKE COLOR of choice (I used darkgreen)
STROKE WIDTH I used 05
Click on draw.

On the next page
Right under the image
PAINT TYPE = Matte
FLOODFILL
FUZZ = 8888
FILL COLOR = None
BORDER COLOR = None
Now go up and click on white box once
Put arrow on white around rectangle
Click once after that

On the next page
Click on TRANSFORM
Now choose TRIM
Click on the transform button

Now the rectangle should be 307X146
At the top of the page,
Click on COMPOSITE

On the next page
Put in the URL for the doveswag



GRAVITY = center
Now click on the Composite button



On the next page
Click on ANNOTATE

In the Text Box I put: Love
GRAVITY = South
LOCATION = +40+40
POINT SIZE = 50
FONT = ashley
FILL COLOR = Skyblue
STROKE COLOR = black
Click on Press to Annotate



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