Ah thank you Fred & Anthony! I believe my problem getting close to being solved.... & BTW the quality isssue is a non-issue. Turns out I had some muck in the image, and was mis-reading them. All looks good there :]
.... but, I am struggling with these commands still. Again to re-cap, I have two images with transparent backgrounds I wish to join. It seems using either of these commands fails to generate a joined image retaining the transparent quality... it is joined however, and the dimensions are all correct, but loss of transparency in the output. :[ this is what I am using. convert image_one.png image_two.png +append output.png and also tried, convert image_one.png image_two.png -matte -channel RGBA +append output.png Thank you Fred & Anthony for helping me figure this one out. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Thyssen" To: "John Smith" Subject: Re: [magick-users] Another +append question Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:32:31 +1000 "John Smith" on wrote... | Hello, I am stuck at a crossroads with the +append command. | | When I use, | | convert +append image_one.png image_two.png output_image.png | | It loses the transparent quality after the join.... which I don't want.=20 | Is there a way to perserve image transparency with image joins? :) | Fred already mentioned about the option order. Basically IM handles options in the order given, (except for a legacy ordering which wyou should not rely on). See IM Examples, Basics http://imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/ However I can not see why you should have a loss of quality with the above. Append does not re-sample the image or generate new colors. Also the PNG format may cause a small file size change rather than a quality effect. so that could not be it. Can you post the URL's of two small images whcih when appended causes the loss of quality. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Out testing new time machine. Be back yesterday! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
