Converting to -colorspace gray changes color values?

[i73]

When exporting from Photoshop grayscale png-8 it still contains color data, in order for me to get 'true grayscale' I have to run:

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$"{ myImagepath } -set colorspace RGB -colorspace gray { myImagepath }"

my problem is it changes the actual color data / color pallet, when IM runs on the photoshops export; as you can see from my test:

Export from Photoshop:


Photoshop Export ran in Image Magic:


Original image:


What can I do to solve this?

[snibgo]

What version IM are you using? If fairly recent (since about v6.7.5), don't put "-set colorspace RGB". That says the image is linear RGB, which it probably isn't.

[i73]

What version IM are you using? If fairly recent (since about v6.7.5), don't put "-set colorspace RGB". That says the image is linear RGB, which it probably isn't.

Using: Magic.net 6.8.7
Removing colorcolorspace fixed it a little but I am still getting a little bit lighter of a image, do I just have to live with it?

Thanks for the reply!

[fmw42]

How much lighter? Can you show us pictures? Photoshop may be outputting a grayscale profile or may be using dot gain, that ImageMagick does not use.

[i73]

No problem, can I output with dotgain?

I know these images look almost identical but when you toggle through them in Photoshop you can notice the difference. It's not a huge deal at this point but just wondering if I can get the identical output.

Photoshop output:


The Image magic output:


Side by side you can see the diff, it's slight but it's still there:

[snibgo]

Those images look the same to me. According to IM, they are identical.

[fmw42]

There are two difference that I see in the meta data (from identify -verbose).

Your photoshop image is gray, but its colorspace is sRGB, while the IM version is gray with colorspace Gray. I doubt this has an affect.

But the photoshop image has rendering intent of perceptual and the IM version has rendering intent of Undefined. That might make a difference when viewing.

As user snibgo says, the data itself is identical.

Try adding -intent perceptual to your ImageMagick command and see if that helps. Check the identify -verbose data to be sure it is rendering intent of perceptual.

[i73]

Thanks guys, yeah they are pretty much identical, literally the smallest differences.

[fmw42]

If you do as snibgo said:

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compare -metric rmse photoshop.png imagemagick.png null:

0 (0)

Means that they are identical in pixel data.

But as I said above, you have two different rending intents. That causes differences when displaying for viewing. So add -intent perceptual to your IM command. See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... php#intent. You may need to add the same profile to both results to be sure that PS is not using Adobe RGB and ImageMagick using sRGB.