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Hello everyone!

Lest my question seem too innocuous, this is the workflow I'm trying to achieve:



I take a .png with a transparent background, fill the background with a new color, resize the image and convert it to a .jpg. This gives me the following command in IM:

convert -resize 800x1200 -background #000000 -alpha Background -quality 100% src.png dest.jpg

The result is this:



I've tried stripping away everything and perform a simple resize and conversion in two steps:

convert -resize 800x1200 src.png src_tmp.png

convert -quality 100% src_tmp.png dest.jpg

But that still results in:



Source image here:

Further Notes:

1. I have tried several filters including triangle, Lancsoz, LancsozSharp and a few others
2. I've tried changing the colorspace: convert -colorspace RGB -resize 800x1200 -colorspace sRGB src.png dest.jpg

"-alpha Background" changes fully-transparent pixels to black, which is only part of the work you want. You should also use the correct syntax (read the input, do the processing, write the output). So we have:

SoulBeaver wrote:I take a .png with a transparent background, fill the background with a new color, resize the image and convert it to a .jpg. This gives me the following command in IM:

convert -resize 800x1200 -background #000000 -alpha Background -quality 100% src.png dest.jpg

Using IM 6.9.3-1 Q16 x64 on Windows 7 64, I get the result from your first example by cloning the image, making the clone all black, compositing the image over the black, then resizing it to 800x1200 after it's on the black background, something like this...
It looks like you have to flatten that clone in order to get the entire rectangle black, otherwise the "-colorize" only makes the oval center black.

EDITED TO ADD: Looks like snibgo gave you the simpler method while I was writing my reply!