Greeings Monks,

I've been working with some images recently using imagemagick. I started by creating the desired image with the command line tools, but the final objective is to avoid forking off processes, so I would like to be able to use Image::Magick to replecate my steps. This is where I run into trouble.

A brief synopsis of the commands I've run (escape for your shell as needed):

convert ( imgbase*.gif -colorspace Gray -colors 2 -negate ) -colorize 
+$color -negate -transparent white outimg%02d.gif
convert -background white outimg01.gif outimg02.gif outimg03.gif $etc 
+-flatten outcomp.gif

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And the code that from what I've gleaned from the documentation should do the same thing.

my $image;

print "Creating composite...\n";

my @imgfiles = glob("img*.gif");

my $compos = Image::Magick->new(size=>'3200x1324');

foreach my $img (reverse @imgfiles) {
        print "\t Compositing image $img... ";
        $image = Image::Magick->new();
        $image->Read($img);
        $image->Quantize(colors=>2,colorspace=>"Gray");
        $image->Negate();
        $image->Colorize(fill=>"rgb(".(pop @colors).")");
        $image->Negate();
        $image->Transparent(color=>"white");

        push @$compos,$image;
        undef $image;
        print "composed.\n";
}

$compos->Flatten();
$compos->Write('outcomp.gif');

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The docs seem kindof sparse and obstruse to me, so if there are undocumented caveats or other things I should know please light the darkness monks.

In reply to ImageMagick command line replication with Image::Magick by Trizor

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