I thought my post made it very clear that's just what I was already doing- Looking back at it, I made a poor job of stating that.

zentara, you must see my confusion with the fact that Identify() method specifically outputs to (STDERR? Or tty?). I guess this would be the most 'funny' thing I've ever seen Image::Magick do. That's saying a lot.

I mean, really? Method Identify().. so that it may output to the tty (must be STDERR) exactly what cli identify would do? Really? Let's just put in a method called 'Trasparentize' that prints empty strings to "QWERTY"..

Thanks for the piped open example.