Convert PSD files with alpha channel to transparent background

[johnbasi]

Hi,

I'm sorry for asking this question but I am very new to IM.

I have these PSD files(a lot of them) with Alpha channels and I want them to be converted into PSD files again but with transparent or white background.

How can I come up with this? I tried this command provided by the company but it is not working.

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composite.exe -compose Dst_In -gravity center art.psd[0] art.psd[1] - | convert.exe - -colorspace rgb -background white -gravity center -resize 1000x1000 -extent 1000x1000 -adaptive-sharpen 0 -quality 80 -strip art.jpg

I have these sample images below. I am not an expert with PS and I can't give you what the output should be. I just want it to be transparent and if it is not possible then white background will do.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w2_E5 ... 7eIO5G9CXn
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C0Pe4 ... iFaWdCTlHF

IM version: ImageMagick 7.0.1-3 Q16 x64 2016-05-11 http://www.imagemagick.org
GhostScript: 9.22
Plaform: Windows

[fmw42]

I cannot access your images because one needs to log-in and I do not have an account there. Can you post them so that one does not need a log-in or to some other public hosting service.

Your command looks like you ultimately want a jpg output. It would be easier to convert the PSD flattened layer [0] directly to jpg.

Does this work:

composite.exe -compose Dst_In -gravity center art.psd[0] art.psd[1] miff:- | convert.exe - -colorspace rgb -background white -gravity center -resize 1000x1000 -extent 1000x1000 -adaptive-sharpen 0 -quality 80 -strip art.jpg

[johnbasi]

Sorry about the link. Please try the new ones below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hoj6pwvnomleh ... 1.psd?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ms8vaficqed7o ... 0.psd?dl=0

Sorry about that command I just copy and pasted it without changing the output. But I really want it to remove the background from the psd file and output it again as a psd but with White background.

I tried your command but doesn't work. It still has a background of light gray and blue for the two images.

[fmw42]

Your file has a fully opaque alpha channel according to identify -verbose 44-2868_11.psd. So the best I can do the convert it to transparent background is to change the blue color to transparent as follows using IM 6.9.9.26 Q16 Mac OSX.

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convert 44-2868_11.psd[0] -fuzz 10% -transparent "#4CDEFE" result.psd

This seems to work for me for this image.

[johnbasi]

There would be lots of psd files with different backgound on it. Is their a way to make it work on all of them?
I am very sorry. I am new to this and I don't have background on PS either.

[snibgo]

The two PSD files have two different images. The images have the same object, but with different backgrounds. I think the task is to make an image that contains the object but with a blank (or white) background:


convert 44-2868_10.psd[0] 44-2868_11.psd[0] ( -clone 0-1 -compose
Difference -composite -fill White +opaque Black -negate ) -delete 1 -alpha off
-compose CopyOpacity -composite x.png

convert 44-2868_10.psd[0] 44-2868_11.psd[0] ( -clone 0-1 -compose
Difference -composite -fill White +opaque Black -negate ) -delete 1 -alpha off
-compose CopyOpacity -composite -background White -compose Over -layers Flatten
x2.png

Each command is one line. This is Windows CMD syntax. For bash, escape the parentheses \( and \).

For PSD output, change the output filenames to .PSD. (I can't test that.)

[johnbasi]

@snibgo, you're correct. I need to extract the object and make the background blank(or white) when converting the file. Your 1st command works great and it removes the background when converting to PSD file. But I noticed that you combined the two PSD files. When I try to use the same file using

convert 44-2868_10.psd[0] 44-2868_10.psd[0] and so on

it won't convert to transparent background anymore.

The attached files are just the sample files wherein the user will feed the system and convert it to blank or white background(whichever they want in the future). There are lots of PSD files with different background and I need them to work independent from each other.

Is there a command to extract the object that has alpha channel in it?

[snibgo]

Each PSD file contains two images. The second is identical to the first. (At least, the two images that IM gets from the file are identical). All four images (two from each file) have an alpha channel, but it is fully opaque.

The command I showed need two images with identical foreground but different background. If you have images with transparent backgrounds, the task is far simpler.

[johnbasi]

Yes, it would be easier if the images has transparent backgrounds and that's what I'm trying to achieve. This is a really tricky task and I've spent so much time on this already.

Anyways, thanks for the help. But I need the images to work independently from each other. You solution works great but it is not applicable in my scenario. If you have any other solution to get the main object please let me know.

[snibgo]

Okay, so you get single images from users, and want to remove backgrounds in general. That is possible if there is some way to distinguish background from foreground. In your "gray background" image, the foreground and background almost merge together towards the top-left. Separation is possible (find the slope magnitude; threshold at 1%; remove noise), but that method would probably not work on some other images.

I don't know a method that is guaranteed to remove any background. I think the best you can do is apply many methods, then choose the best result. There might be an automated method to choose the "best".

[johnbasi]

In your "gray background" image, the foreground and background almost merge together towards the top-left. Separation is possible (find the slope magnitude; threshold at 1%; remove noise)

Maybe this is possible. Do you have a script or command for this Separation thingy?

[snibgo]

Windows BAT syntax for slope magnitude and threshold:

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convert 44-2868_10.psd[1] -profile sRGB.icc -strip x1.png

call %PICTBAT%slopeMag x1.png

%IM%convert ^
  x1_sm.png ^
  -threshold 1%% ^
  t.png

For slopeMag.bat, see Details, details.