I am trying to composite a small overlay image in middle of screen vertically, but at a fixed position down from top.

It works fine with imagemagick

base.png

over.png

composite --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.13-12 Q16 x86_64 18420 
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: .php
Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP(4.5) 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype heic jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png raw tiff webp wmf x xml zlib


composite -gravity north -geometry +0+50  over.png base.png output.png

then it works and i get an image like following

composite

However, if i try it in wand, my code looks like

pip list | grep Wand
Wand    0.6.13

def main():
    with Image(filename ="over.png") as o:
        original = o.clone()

    with Image(filename ="base.png") as b:
        base = b.clone()

    baseposite( operator="over", image=original, gravity='north', arguments="+0+50")

    final = base.clone()
    final.save(filename='output.png')

The geometry in arguments is simply ignored, and the overlay is north, without any offset.

overlay bad

i have read extensively the imagemagick, wand documentation and tried to read the wand code, or find examples online of people using it, but i am not clearer why imagemagick is not picking up the geometry arguments.

I am trying to composite a small overlay image in middle of screen vertically, but at a fixed position down from top.

It works fine with imagemagick

base.png

over.png

composite --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.13-12 Q16 x86_64 18420 https://legacy.imagemagick.
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick./script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP(4.5) 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype heic jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png raw tiff webp wmf x xml zlib


composite -gravity north -geometry +0+50  over.png base.png output.png

then it works and i get an image like following

composite

However, if i try it in wand, my code looks like

pip list | grep Wand
Wand    0.6.13

def main():
    with Image(filename ="over.png") as o:
        original = o.clone()

    with Image(filename ="base.png") as b:
        base = b.clone()

    baseposite( operator="over", image=original, gravity='north', arguments="+0+50")

    final = base.clone()
    final.save(filename='output.png')

The geometry in arguments is simply ignored, and the overlay is north, without any offset.

overlay bad

i have read extensively the imagemagick, wand documentation and tried to read the wand code, or find examples online of people using it, but i am not clearer why imagemagick is not picking up the geometry arguments.

• python
• wand

1 Answer 1

This works in Python Wand 0.6.13

But see the error message when gravity='north' is added.

So do the following to compute the offset equivalent to gravity=north:

#!/bin/python3.12.9

from wand.image import Image
from wand.display import display


# adding gravity produces the following error message:
# TypeError: Can not use gravity if top & left are given
# So do the following

with Image(filename='green.png') as bimg:
    bwidth = bimg.width
    with Image(filename='red.png') as fimg:
        fwidth = fimg.width
        xoff = int((bwidth - fwidth)/2)
        bimgposite_channel('all_channels', fimg, 'over', xoff, 50)
        bimg.save(filename='red_over_green_composite1.png')
        display(bimg)

# OR

with Image(filename='green.png') as bimg2:
    bwidth2 = bimg2.width
    with Image(filename='red.png') as fimg2:
        fwidth2 = fimg2.width
        xoff2 = int((bwidth2 - fwidth2)/2)
        bimg2posite_channel('all_channels', fimg2, operator='over', left=xoff2, top=50)
        bimg2.save(filename='red_over_green_composite2.png')
        display(bimg2)


Results from either:

ADDITION

Courtesy of Eric McConville:

"There's a secret hidden method for calculating gravity.
`BaseImage._gravity_to_offset(gravity, width, height)`
The documentation software will not show any methods
that start with a `_` underscore, but we can still use it."

#!/bin/python3.12.9

from wand.image import Image
from wand.display import display


# adding gravity produces the following error message:
# TypeError: Can not use gravity if top & left are given
# So do the following using hidden ._gravity_to_offset to compute offsets

with Image(filename='green.png') as bimg:
    with Image(filename='red.png') as fimg:
        xoff = 0
        yoff = 50
        t, l = bimg._gravity_to_offset('north', fimg.width, fimg.height)
        bimgposite(
            operator='over', 
            image=fimg, 
            left=l+xoff, 
            top=t+yoff
            )
        bimg.save(filename='red_over_green_composite1.png')
        display(bimg)