Long:
                          softborder v.0.6
                            (visitware!)

                  by: Carl Licke / Turbid design
                  mailto:carl.licke@swipnet.se
                  http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-24653/

This is a great tool for creating soft borders, for use on web or print
(or whatever you want).

It needs ImageFX. Tested successfully with version 1.52.
Please report bugs/problems, or if you know how to improve it.

This script is visitware!
If you use it, you have to visit my homepage (I'm so sorry for you :-),
and have a look around:
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-24653/

To read about my programs and see examples, click on "software: Amiga".

If you have used this script for a webpage, I would appreciate to get
the URL to it!

If you want, just drop me a mail (carl.licke@swipnet.se).


features
--------
* borderpattern support
* selectable bordercolor
* adjustable softness and size of borders
* adjustable shade of picture
* magic scissors support
* remembers settings (until you reboot)
* GUI


installation
------------
copy softborder.ifx to ImageFX:Rexx/
(recommended, but not needed)

You also need the assign ImageFX: for your ImageFX-path.
I think you have that already.


usage
-----
Start ImageFX and load/create an image.
Select the Arexx button in ImageFX.
In the filerequester, select the softborder.ifx file and OK.
If everything went right, a GUI pops up.
There are lots of options, but you probably won't need to care about
so many of them to get a decent result.
Play with it and you will get it, or read on.
Here follows an explanation of the GUI:

smoothness:
How soft the border will be.

border size:
Thickness of border with gradient.

shade:
How dark the shadow will be.
Or how yellow, if you selected yellow as shadowcolor.

border increase:
Thickness of border without gradient.

magic scissors:
If you check this, the most usual color (in the original image)
will be removed.
It will be replaced with white, or your selected bordercolor.

background from swap:
Uses the swap buffer as a borderpattern.
If there is no swap, it uses the main buffer.

pick color for backg.:
If you check this and select the Okay button, the script will
stop and wait for you to pick a color, either from the image
or from the palette.
The color of the border will be the one you selected.
If you check both this and the "background from swap" options,
then this won't have any effect.

save these settings:
Hmm... let me see... Ohh, yes, it saves your settings.
But they will reset on reboot.

You can change the defaults if you open the script in a
texteditor, and find the note I left for you.


history
-------
0.6 - first release


future
------
I WILL improve it (but I don't know how, mail me if you do).

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1509    4469  33.8% -lh5- bb26 Mar 11  1998 softborder.ifx
[generic]                 1390    2960  47.0% -lh5- 97ca Mar 11  1998 softborder.readme
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 Total         2 files    2899    7429  39.0%            Mar 12  1998