Re: ImageMagick - why do these snippets act differently?

[tangent]

Try setting the depth of the new image to 8 (it defaults to 16)

$opimage->Set(magick=>'RGB', depth=>8);

You can get the depth of the original image like this:

my $depth = $ipimage->Get('depth');

[pete_l]

Try setting the depth of the new image to 8 (it defaults to 16)

Thank you, that cracked it!