# New RMagick tutorial: Web 2.0 Graphics

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**Created:** [June 18, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rmagick-tutorial-web-2-0-graphics/63759 "2006-06-18T22:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rmagick-tutorial-web-2-0-graphics/63759/1 "2006-06-18T22:13:46Z")

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You spent _hours_ getting RMagick installed. Here’s a chance to learn  
how to use it for something besides making thumbnails!

A couple of weeks ago I ran across a tutorial called _Web 2.0 Design  
Kit_[1] that shows how to create so-called Web 2.0 design effects using  
Photoshop. I started wondering if it was possible to reproduce these  
effects with RMagick. Well, it turns out that yes, it is, so I wrote up  
the process as Part 2 of the “Alpha Compositing” tutorial that I started  
last February. This part of the tutorial shows how to dynamically create  
images with transparency, the “glass” effect, gradients, shadows, and  
text.

The tutorial is here: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/web2/web2.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/web2/web2.html).

[1] [http://www.photoshoplab.com/web20-design-kit.html](http://www.photoshoplab.com/web20-design-kit.html)