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I have these 2 input images shown below. img1.png has a car in black and the rest transparent.

img1.png

img1.png

background.png

background.png

I and like to fill img1.png with the background.png image to get this output, with a white contour around the car (it could be different shapes) and the rest transparent, to get something like this:

Note: I'm showing the car with red contour just for example purposes to see better.

Desired output

enter image description here

Currently I'm doing this:

  1. Invert the alpha channel to make the car to transparent.

    convert img1.png -channel a -negate +channel -fill black -colorize 100% temp.png

  2. Overlay the car over the background.

    convert -composite -gravity center background.png temp.png temp1.png

  3. Convert black to transparent

    convert temp1.png -transparent black img1_out.png

The issue is if the background image has some part of black, then inside the car the black part would be transparent too.

I think that maybe adding a white contour to the car shape previous to step 2 would help in some way to isolate the black part that I want to convert to transparent but I don't know how to add that contour after invert the alpha channel and how to convert to transparent only the black part outside the car shape. I'm using IM 7 under Cygwin for Windows.

This is my current output img1_out.png

enter image description here

How can I do this? Thanks

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Using IMv7 on Windows11, and using your example images, this command creates the output below...

magick background.png img1.png ^
    -compose copyopacity -composite -compose over ^
    ( +clone -fill red -colorize 100 -morphology edgein disk:8x8 ) ^
    -composite result.png

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You say you have IMv7 but you're using the "convert" command. For v7 you should be using the command "magick".

To modify the syntax for Cygwin, almost certainly the continued-line carets "^" will need to be replaced with backslashes "\" and the parentheses will need to be escaped with backslashes "\(\)".

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I had issues but was because I needed to escape the parentheses \( and now it works just perfect. I was almost sure that could be done in a single command or at least in less steps. Nice!
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In Imagemagick, you can do that as

convert img.png \( mask.png -alpha extract \) -alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite result.png

If you do not care about the red border.

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Thanks! your solution it works for me too. I could use both.

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