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Using ImageMagick 7.0.8-47 Q16 x64 HDRI on Windows 10 and running this command...
... generates this unexpected result...



The issue only seems to occur when using both "-blur" and a transparent background.

Using ImageMagick 7.0.8-46 and running the same command creates the expected result...

In ImageMagick 7, the alpha channel is processed like the others. That was not true in IM 6. So add -channel rgb to your command before the -blur.

magick -background none -pointsize 36 ^
-fill white label:"TESTING" -fill black label:"TESTING" -channel rgb -blur 0x2 +channel -append blurtest.png

See if that works.

I don't know why 7.0.8-47 might be different to 7.0.8-46.

The alpha values in the -47 version are much higher than in -46. I suspect there is a new bug in "-blur" of alpha.

Fred's suggestion removes the blur of alpha, so I expect it shows no difference between -46 and -47.

Convolution in IMv7 had a bug when dealing with alpha channels. The bug is fixed in -47. Using -channel RGB tells IM to ignore the alpha channel when blurring. It should, as Fred suggests, fix the problem you reported.

magick wrote: ↑2019-05-31T11:36:07-07:00Convolution in IMv7 had a bug when dealing with alpha channels. The bug is fixed in -47.

The bug I'm describing just appeared in -47.

Using -channel RGB tells IM to ignore the alpha channel when blurring. It should, as Fred suggests, fix the problem you reported.

Using "-channel RGB" before the blur just eliminates any blurring effect at all.

This issue is described in a thread in THIS THREAD in the "Users" section of the forum.

I confirm GeeMack's command with v6.9.9-50 and v7.0.7-28 give the same result that GeeMack reports for 7.0.8-46. That result seems correct to me. I suspect a bug in 7.0.7-47.

Thanks for the problem report. We can reproduce it and will have a patch to fix it in GIT master branch @ https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick later today. The patch will be available in the beta releases of ImageMagick @ https://www.imagemagick.org/download/beta/ by sometime tomorrow.

This issue appears to be resolved in v7.0.8-48. Thanks.