Add gradient overlay under a photo label using imagemagick - imagemagick

I'm trying to convert a bunch of photos using imagemagick. However, I hadn't figured out how to overlay an image with gradient and write some text on it. I know the text part though:
convert IMG_8408.jpg \
-font URWChanceryMediumI \
-pointsize 250 \
-draw "gravity south
fill black text 0,40 'Some text stuff here'" \
test.jpg
Is there a way to add a white gradient to the bottom? Note, that the image size may vary.
What I have:
What I want:
I picked the colors so that it's clearly visible what I want to achieve

You can achieve desired output with 3 commands:
a. create the upper part of your image (a solid rectangle with your selected background color):
convert -size 640x200 xc:#A02B2B background.jpg
b. create another image containing the text over a gradient:
convert -size 640x110 gradient:#A02B2B-#126B27 -pointsize 25 -draw "gravity south fill black text 0,40 'Some text stuff here'" text.jpg
c. combine the images to obtain the final output:
montage background.jpg text.jpg -tile 1x2 -geometry +0+0 output.jpg
Note: I modified text creation parameters in step 2 to keep the command short, but you can add back your original settings

Use the following command:
magick -size 640x310 -define gradient:vector="0,107 0,0" gradient:"#a02b2b-#126b27" -flip -gravity south -font script-mt-bold -pointsize 48 -annotate +0+24 "Some text stuff here" output.png

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align text to left with imagemagick

I am using ImageMagick to add text to an image. I used to -gravity Center flag to put the text in the center of the image. But I think this is resulting in the text being center aligned too. I want the text at the center of the image but left aligned. Here is an example of what I'm trying to have:
This is the output I'm getting:
Current output
This is what I want:
This is my requirement
How do I accomplish this? This is my first time using ImageMagick. Please guide me.
Here is one way to do that in Imagemagick 6. I specify the background color, the font color (fill), the font and the pint-size and gravity west (left side). I use label: to create the two lines of text with a new line between them. This creates a text image of the size needed to hold the text. Then I pad the image all around that to the final size with the text image in its center using the same background color.
convert -background black -fill white -font ubuntu -pointsize 28 -gravity west label:"This is line 1 of text\nThis is line 2 of text" -gravity center -extent 400x300 result.png
See
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#extent
ADDITION
If you want to put the text over an existing image, then you do something similar, but in place of the extent, we composite the text image over the background image.
The following is Unix syntax. For Window, remove the backslashes \ before the parentheses.
Input:
convert lena.png \( -background black -fill white -font ubuntu -pointsize 21 -gravity west label:"This is line 1 of text\nThis is line 2 of text" \) -gravity center -compose over -composite result.png
Result:
Or if you do not want the black background, use "none" for the color.
convert lena.png \( -background none -fill white -font ubuntu -pointsize 21 -gravity west label:"This is line 1 of text\nThis is line 2 of text" \) -gravity center -compose over -composite result2.png

Perspective + montage with overlap of multiple images at the command-line

I have a collection (of variable size) of rectangular images (frames extracted from a source video file with ffmpeg), and am trying to find a way to automatically generate a "filmstrip" at the command line, ideally one in which each image is rotated to give it a perspective, and then partly overlayed with the previous one.
The output would be something like this (with transparent background)
(Note: Numbers in the corner would be a plus...)
I imagine ImageMagick has the tools for this, but so far I've not found any obvious way of achieving this...
Any pointer?
Here's something that worked quite nicely for me:
-virtual-pixel transparent +distort Perspective '0,0 0,0 0,110 0,110 200,0 100,20 200,110 100,80' \
-gravity South -background transparent -splice 0x15 \
-font Arial -pointsize 12 -gravity southwest -annotate +2+0 "%[p]" \
miff:- | \
montage -geometry 100x\>-20+2 -tile x1 -background none - montage_test.png```
![montage](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ezplh.png)

Position another image relatively to text with ImageMagick

convert inputImage.jpeg -gravity South -size x32 label:"Morning in paradise" -geometry +0+40 -composite starImage.png -composite finalImage.png
With this command, I can add text at the bottom of inputImage and another image on this text. But how can I set (or prefix) the starImage image to the left of the text that has a dynamic width and fixed height. I have attached some images below to explain what I want to do.
Obtained result
Expected result
You can read the star image, create the text label, and append them together inside parentheses. Then composite that assembled star-text image over the main input image. A command like this should get pretty near what you described.
convert inputImage.jpeg -gravity center -size x32 \
\( starImage.png label:"Morning in paradise" +append \) \
-geometry +0+40 -gravity South -composite finalImage.png
If you want a star on both sides of the line of text, you can read the "starImage.png" in once more after creating the label and before appending.
I think what you should do using Imagemagick is to set the width you want for the text so that there is room for the star image to be append on each side and have some padding as well. Here is how I would do it. Since you did not provide your input or star image, I have simulated the image as a blue image and taken some graphic image that I had around to simulate your star or logo. I first measure the desired width. The width is 70% of the difference is width between the large blue image and twice the width of the logo. I append the logo on each side of the text image, then composite that near the bottom of the blue image to create your final image. If this were in Imagemagick 7, it could be done in one command. This is Unix syntax.
Image:
Logo:
width=`convert background.jpg logo.png -format "%[fx:0.70*(u.w-2*v.w)]\n" info: | head -n1`
convert background.jpg \
\( logo.png \
-size ${width}x -background none -fill black -font Arial -gravity center label:"THIS IS A TEST" \
logo.png \
+append \) \
-gravity south -geometry +0+50 \
-compose over -composite \
result.jpg

Start path relative to corner of image

I have written the following script which uses the ImageMagick* convert utility to append axis labels to an existing image.
LEFT_="l -30,0 +2,+2 -6,-2 +6,-2 -2,+2 z"
RIGHT_="l 30,0 -2,+2 +6,-2 -6,-2 +2,+2 z"
convert -size 240x160 pattern:SMALLFISHSCALES \
-pointsize 16 -fill black -background white \
-gravity SouthEast -splice 0x20 \
-draw "translate 40,0 text 0,0 'Time' stroke red path 'm 5,2 $RIGHT_'" \
-gravity NorthWest -splice 20x0 \
-draw "rotate +90 translate 40,-10 text 0,0 'Value' path 'm -5,2 $LEFT_'" \
example.png
Which produces the following image:
This is almost exactly what I am after, except that the red arrow is out of place. I expected the red arrow to appear next to the Time label, since its start point is specified as a relative position in the same draw command. Unfortunately, it looks like the -gravity option is affecting the text primitive, but not the path primitive.
Is there a way to reference the SouthEast corner, or the Time text label when specifying the start position of the red arrow? I can't use absolute coordinates, because the size of the image varies.
*ImageMagick 6.7.8-9 on CentOS 7
Updated Answer
Maybe you can make Unicode text arrows like this then they will be affected by gravity...
perl -e 'binmode(STDOUT,":utf8"); print "Time ... \x{2192}\x{2191}";'|
convert -font TimesNewRoman -pointsize 36 label:#- arrows.png
Depending on your OS, the following may do as a replacement for the Perl above...
printf "%b" "\u2192" | convert ...
Original Answer
I am not at all familiar with paths, but I can suggest a way to achieve what you want that doesn't use gravity at all, and maybe that will help.
Rather than use -splice, you can clone your original image and crop it to the size you planned to splice on, and then -append the strips that label the axes. It is easier to show you the command than explain it!
convert -size 240x160 pattern:SMALLFISHSCALES \
\( +clone -crop x20+0+0 -fill blue -colorize 100% \) \
-append \
\( +clone -crop 20x+0+0 -fill red -colorize 100% \) \
+swap +append result.png
I have filled the x-axis blue, but remove that and add whatever labelling and arrows you need, and I filled the y-axis red, but likewise remove that and add labelling and arrows - rotating as necessary.
Two tricky things to note...
-append will append the second image below the first
+append will append the second image to the right of the first, so I +swap beforehand to put it on the left side.

Apply watermark with text / image using GraphicsMagick

I need to be able to apply watermark on an image, using either text or another image.
Getting it to work with an image was quite straight forward, using the following command:
gm composite -dissolve 15 -tile logo.png image.jpg wmark_tiled.jpg
Now, I also want to be able to use text for watermarking (in other cases). The only thing that I found close to it, is a command from ImageMagick tutorial which is the following :
convert -size 140x80 xc:none -fill grey -gravity NorthWest -draw "text 10,10 'copyrigh text'" -gravity SouthEast -draw "text 5,15 'copyright text'" miff:- | gm composite -tile - image.jpg copyrightImage.jpg
Although its not working in GM, and I would rather avoid using pipe as it causes some headaches managing it from Java.
What I thought I could do, is generate an image from a given text, and then use that image as logo.png is used on my first command. Although I cannot find how to generate an image out of text, all I find is putting text on top of an image.
Ideally I will generate a transparent image with the text, and from what I see modifying font/color etc should be quite flexible.
Any suggestions on how to achieve this, or any better solutions are welcome.
(I added imagemagick tag as the interfaces are often same/similar)
I'm not sure I fully understand your query, so apologies if I've misunderstood, but are you trying to create a transparent image, with some text in the corner? If so, would this not work?
convert -background transparent -fill grey -font Calibri -size 140x80 -pointsize 14 -gravity southeast label:'copyright text' output.png
Obviously adjusting the font, pointsize, output image name etc. That would create the following:
http://oi42.tinypic.com/14j1bvp.jpg
P.S. that was written for ImageMagick. I don't know how GM differs or whether it would still work.
To be able to get the watermark text into the same image I had to use the -annotate parameter.
So Moogle's code snippet would look like this in my case:
convert original_image.jpg -background transparent -fill grey -font Calibri -size 140x80 -pointsize 14 -gravity southeast -annotate +0+0 'copyright text' output.jpg

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