in reply to ImageMagick - why do these snippets act differently?

Try setting the depth of the new image to 8 (it defaults to 16) 
$opimage->Set(magick=>'RGB', depth=>8);

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You can get the depth of the original image like this: 
my $depth = $ipimage->Get('depth');

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Re^2: ImageMagick - why do these snippets act differently?
by pete_l (Novice) on Aug 22, 2014 at 17:10 UTC
    Try setting the depth of the new image to 8 (it defaults to 16)

    Thank you, that cracked it!

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