hasAlpha

24. 11. 2019

stackoverflow.com/…/detect-alpha-channel-with-imagemagick

identify -format %A piCase2.png
True

Composite one with alpha over checkerboard pattern

x="640"; y="480"
convert piCase2.png -resize ${x}x${y} -background none -gravity center -extent ${x}x${y} \( -size ${x}x${y} tile:pattern:checkerboard \) +swap -composite tmp.png

Extract alpha and upload as separated file?

# extract alpha
convert rgba.png -alpha extract alpha.png
# ectract rgb (for testing recomposing)
convert rgba.png -alpha off rgb.png

Recompose to singular image

convert rgb.png alpha.png -alpha off -compose CopyOpacity -composite recomposeRGBA.png

This also works rather well when rgb is jpeged.

Note: This will not work well when rgb is precomposed to certain color (solution?)