			       dropshadow

               Construct a "dropshadow" border for an image

                   Brendt Wohlberg  os@wohlberg.net

               [Most recent modification: 23 March 2002]

Functionality:

  dropshadow is a Perl script which call the ImageMagick utilities
  "convert" and "mogrify" to construct a "dropshadow" border for an
  image. 

Usage:

  dropshadow [ --colour shadow-colour ] [ --blur blur-parameter ]
       [ --border border-size ] [ --gap gap-size ][ --help ] [ --modify ]
       [ --shoulder shoulder-size ] input-image [ output-image ]

  --colour Specify the shadow colour. Defaults to "grey50".

  --blur   Specify the blur parameter for the blur operation used
           to construct the shadow. Default is "5x3".
  
  --border Specify the border height/width. Default is 12.

  --gap    Specify the size of the gap between the shadow and the 
           edge of the image (ie. the amount of the border that is
           not shadow). Default is 6.

  --help   Display usage information.

  --modify Modify input image rather than writing to a second 
           output image.

  --shoulder Specify the size of the shoulder on the shadow (the gap
           on the top right and bottom left). Default is 6.

Requirements:
  
  * Perl (version 5). See http://www.cpan.org/.
  * ImageMagick (the "convert" and "mogrify" utilities). See 
    http://www.imagemagick.org/.

Note:

  A better approach would have been to use the Perlmagick interface
  to ImageMagick rather than call its utility commands.

License:

  This software is made available under the terms of the GPL (see file
  included in this distribution).
