Hello Monks. I'm working on a skin system for a web app which will allow users to easily modify the look of the UI without editing templates. The app uses a single CSS file to set colors and fonts, so most of the required skinning functionality is just a matter of using HTML::Template to generate the CSS file. However, there are a few images used in the interface and these will need to be skinned as well. Of course I'll allow the skin to carry its own images, but it seems like such a pain to make people create new images just to change colors.

So my question is, how would you implement a system that colors images based on runtime configuration? I'm wondering if I can use Imager, which is already part of the project, to do the job. SVG also seems like a possibility, although I think I'd have to pre-render to PNG as browser support for SVG was pretty limited last I checked.

-sam

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