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.

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