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I did some digging and found the following:

magick/image.c, line 492:

append_image=CloneImage(images,width,height,MagickTrue,exception);

Here the append_image is constructed by cloning the first image of the array of images to be appended. The CloneImage function also clones colorspace ...

A workaround is to start the image list with a dummy colour image, then trim it off, eg:
convert xc:red bw.jpg color.jpg -append -crop +0+1 +repage both.jpg

Thanks for the quick response and functional workaround! I'm editing the photographer's website scripts right now.


Incidentally, I ...

Hi everyone,

Since the upgrade to 6.8, which included some major changes in color management, the convert -append command has been broken when dealing with mixed grayscale and color images. Consider the following command:

$ convert bw.jpg color.jpg -append both.jpg
(The images I'm using are ...