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?".
Using a '[1x1] means resize the image to just 1 pixel. The resulting color will be an average of all the colors in the image (no exactly that due to the exact resize filter being used).
To get the color of just the top left pixel, you need a crop varient of read modifier. '[1x1+0+0]'