Change a color in a png with imagemagick convert

Jykke · 10-07-2015, 08:34 AM

I have two png images (a sort of fireframe section pictures). I want to merge them together over each other - this I already managed with transparency option and all. I only have one remaining problem - since both pictures feature a fireframe in the same color it would be nice to change that particular color of the second image to something else. How can I change color "red" to "blue"

I think this should be possible without editing the whole palette but I have not been able to find how.

I want to do this on command line so I found that convert is the most promising one, but I got stuck with this last issue?

John VV · 10-07-2015, 09:55 PM

you really need to read the website
or the imagemagick manual

a lot of things can be done with "display"

have you read the output of

Code:

convert --help

personally i would just change the colorspace to HSV and move the hugh value then move back into rgb

also for 99.999 of things i moved to using G'Mic" image lib a few years back

I now only use imagemagick for the Q32 custom build i have for using in the math program Octave ( matlab)

or

for switching the red and blue

a rgb image is a 3 layer image
flip flop layer 1 and 3
this is easy to do using Nip2 ( and the vips image lib) this also replaced my use of imagemagick years and years ago

Jykke · 10-08-2015, 12:56 AM

I looked at convert --help already before posting. I am sure lots of things can be done with display.
I am missing practical examples. Now I was able to accomplish what I wanted with mogrify

Code:

mogrify -path tmp_2 -format png -fill blue -opaque red -alpha set -transparent white tmp_2/*.png

works pretty much as I wanted.

I have two image sequences and I want to merge them. For merging I use convert:

Code:

mkdir tmp_1
mkdir tmp_2
mkdir tmp_3
ffmpeg -i $1 -f image2 tmp_1/video_1_05d.png
ffmpeg -i $2 -f image2 tmp_2/video_2_%05d.png
mogrify -path tmp_1 -format png -alpha set -transparent white tmp_1/*.png
mogrify -path tmp_2 -format png -fill blue -opaque red -alpha set -transparent white tmp_2/*.png
foreach i ( `ls tmp_1/* | sed "s/.*video_1_//" | sed "s/\.png//"` )
        convert -composite tmp_2/video_2_$i.png tmp_1/video_1_$i.png tmp_3/video_3_$i.png
end
mogrify -path tmp_3 -format png -background white -alpha Background tmp_3/*.png
ffmpeg -i tmp_3/video_3_%05d.png -an -vcodec mjpeg combined.avi

This works pretty well and fast, except for the foreach loop which is the most time
consuming bit. I just could not figure it out if I can accomplish that with wildcards.