MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

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J2T
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MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

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Hi guys,

i'm looking for the equivalent of the -channel RGBA command line option.

The reason is that i like to blur a image with transparency information. I get the same result as described here with the yellow circle with the black creeping pixels at the outline.

So how i can apply the -channel RGBA with MagickWand to fix that?

Thanks!
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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

Post by el_supremo »

I think that the MagickWand equivalent is:

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MagickSetOption(magick_wand,"channel","RGBA")
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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

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Thanks Pete for your reply.

I call this right before MagickBlurImage() but it doesn't work as my test image still has the creeping black pixels.
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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

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I tried to find a workaround but always get stuck. Maybe some of you can help me out with this?!

(I use c# + P/Invoke and my test image is a yellow square on a transparent background)

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 IntPtr newWand = MagickMergeImageLayers(image, ImageLayerMethod.FlattenLayer);
MagickBlurImage(newWand, 0.0, 8.0);
with the result, that the blur is correct (because of the white color of the transparent pixels i guess) but the background is white (alpha=1/255). But i like to have a full transparent background. How can i achieve this?

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MagickSetImageBackgroundColor(image, color);
MagickBlurImageChannel(image, ChannelType.AllChannels, 0, 8);
with this result. This is what i want. Nice blur with transparent background. The problem here is that MagickSetImageBackgroundColor() does not have any influences. So how i can change the color here? (at another point i use MagickSetImageBackgroundColor() in combination with MagickShadowImage() which works fantastic)

Thanks for any advice!

Cheers,
Florian
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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

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Got it!

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MagickNewImage(coloredBG, width, height, color);
MagickBlurImageChannel(image, ChannelType.AllChannels, 0, 8);
MagickCompositeImage(coloredBG, image, CompositeOperator.CopyOpacityCompositeOp, 0, 0);
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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

Post by el_supremo »

Don't know if this will work but try:

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MagickSetBackgroundColor(image, color);
instead of MagickSetImageBackgroundColor.

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Re: MagickWand equivalent of -channel RGBA

Post by J2T »

No, that doesn't work either.

Thanks for your suggestions :)
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