You want to use BlobToImage(), like this:

my $image=Image::Magick->new(magick=>'gif');
$image->BlobToImage($blobdata);
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Also have a look at ImageToBlob() (does the obvious).

Docs are here: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html#blobs

Oh, and if you're using if for the web, it's probably good to have a cacheing proxy in front of it, if it's going to see much use, since ImageMagick is not all that nippy. We use Squid.

andy.

Update: I don't know why I assumed it was a gif. If the image could be more than one format, you could presumably call Image::Magick->new() without parameters, load the blob and use Image::Magick itself to detect the format. I haven't tried this though.

Thank you very much. I guess at 5am in the morning when your tired and bleary eyed you miss a lot of things. I was looking at that page and I seemed to have missed it.

BMaximus

that seems simplest to this monk, but then I love that module.

brother dep.

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