Trying to stay native in SIPS when removing the alpha channel from images I am familiar with the process in ImageMagick with:
convert -flatten test.png test-white.png
or:
convert test.png -background white -alpha remove test.png
but when I reference the man page on ss4 and Library it tells me that hasAlpa
is a boolean read only when I run:
sips -g hasAlpha test.png
Per searching under the tag sips and with:
- sips transparency
- sips remove
there wasn't anything mentioned for removing transparency. Can you remove transparency with SIPS?
Using ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick would be better idea, but if you really want to use SIPS, you could try to remove transparency by converting image to BMP, and then back to PNG again:
sips -s format bmp input.png --out tmp.bmp
sips -s format png tmp.bmp --out output.png
Unfortunately you cannot choose background color, transparent parts of image will be replaced with black.
Another option, which is much lighter weight than installing the entire ImageMagick might be to use the NetPBM suite:
pngtopam -background=rgb:ff/ff/ff -mix start.png | pnmtopng - > result.png
You can easily install NetPBM using homebrew
with:
brew install netpbm
You could use the following little script, which uses OSX's built-in PHP which includes GD by default, so you would be staying native and not need ImageMagick or anything extra installed:
#!/usr/bin/php -f
<?php
// Get start image with transparency
$src = imagecreatefrompng('start.png');
// Get width and height
$w = imagesx($src);
$h = imagesy($src);
// Make a blue canvas, same size, to overlay onto
$result = imagecreatetruecolor($w,$h);
$blue = imagecolorallocate($result,0,0,255);
imagefill($result,0,0,$blue);
// Overlay start image ontop of canvas
imagecopyresampled($result,$src,0,0,0,0,$w,$h,$w,$h);
// Save result
imagepng($result,'result.png',0);
?>
So, if I start with this, which is transparent in the middle:
I get this as a result:
I made the canvas background blue so you can see it on StackOverflow's white background, but just change lines 12 & 13 for a white background like this:
...
...
// Make a white canvas, same size, to overlay onto
$result = imagecreatetruecolor($w,$h);
$white = imagecolorallocate($result,255,255,255);
imagefill($result,0,0,$white);
...
...
I did another answer here in the same vein to overcome another missing feature in sips
.