removing background

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yllawwally
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removing background

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Hello,
I'm trying to use convert to remove the background of my images. I have a folder of images. However, I have not been able to get this to work. How do I change the background color to black and set it to transparent. The colors of the background are very similar, but not identical. I'm running version 7.0.8-45, on a windows 7 machine, from the command line. The images are 180x180 png images. The edge all around the image is the background color, and the non-background part does not share the gray color of the background.
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Re: removing background

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It is very hard to know what to tell you without seeing your images. Post them to some free hosting service and put the URL here.

Typical command is

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convert image -fuzz XX% -transparent black output
if the background is near black, where XX% is the percent tolerance near black. Replace black with whatever your background color is.

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