Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
You can introduce transparency by adding alpha to your opaque color value (e.g. #000000cc). You may need the -matte option to tell ImageMagick you want an alpha channel in your image.
An example image can also help. For example is the shape anti-aliased or what. Usually a shape is defined as either a greyscale mask, or a colored shape on transparency, the example will let us know exactly what you are dealing with.