Imagemagick Issue - transparency thats turning blue!

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-21T15:56:03-07:00

The reason it happens is that GIF only supports one transparent color whereas many images have a variety of transparent values ranging from 0 to 255. Since transparency is binary we choose values from 0 to 127 as transparent and values from 128 to 255 as opaque. A future version of ImageMagick will permit you to specify a specific color as transparent instead of it deciding based on the alpha channel.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-21T18:26:58-07:00

See http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6 for a discussion on how to make transparency work properly with GIF images and why GIF is a bad choice for transparent images and how PNG is the preferred choice.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-21T18:40:12-07:00

Perhaps there is a bug in the PSD image reader. Post a URL to your original PSD image so we can download it and reproduce the problem.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-21T19:13:04-07:00

Until we get a patch, try this:

convert '50cent1.psd[1]' 50cent1.png