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I am trying to "paste" one image on top of another without the colour of the "pasted" image being changed at all.

It seems to work fine if i use a plain white image like so:
convert -quality 100% -size 715x156 xc:white "testnew.jpg"
convert -quality 100% -background none -virtual-pixel transparent -pointsize 40 -font "Open_Sans.ttf" -fill "#e66956" label:"Testing" "label.png"
composite -quality 100% -geometry +50+50 "label.png" "testnew.jpg" "testnew.jpg"


But if i use a different image that has some other colour in it, the colours in the "pasted" imaged get modified (there are some dark edges added):
convert -quality 100% "526org_1370178839.jpg" "testnew.jpg"
convert -quality 100% -background none -virtual-pixel transparent -pointsize 40 -font "Open_Sans.ttf" -fill "#e66956" label:"Testing" "label.png"
composite -quality 100% -geometry +50+50 "label.png" "testnew.jpg" "testnew.jpg"


I want the text to be copied exactly as it is, over the top without it changing colour.

Thanks for any help.

Don't use JPG files. The compression is lossy, which means the colours will change every time you save and re-read.

Thank you!

I have changed my program to use PNG files now, and only convert to JPG once at the end when needed.

I was adding multiple label images to the original which was causing the text to look horrible. Now it looks much better.