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?".
+clone copies your image to use for the alpha channel
-contrast-stretch 0 will make your alpha channel graylevels become 0 to 255
-compose copy_opacity -composite will add the alpha channel to the image