<p>Somehow, the images were created thinking Imagick wasn't installed. Clearing the cache forced the images to be recreated and seems to have fixed it.</p>

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2015-08-31T15:13:07.130Z
2015-08-31T15:13:07.130Z
Tim Kelty
<p>I have a client with <em>very</em> stringent concerns over acurate color in thier images.</p>

<p>They have noticed that image resized from Craft have some dramatic color discrepancies, which I have verified. It's nothing you'd probably notice in a regular photo, but these are actual fabric swatch images, so the color is crucial.</p>

<p>Anyway - first thing I verified was that Imagick was being used, which it is.</p>

<p>However, when I look at the file info, it still says something about <code>gd-jpeg</code> which concerning...not sure if that is just a red herring though.</p>

<pre><code>❯ file resized-720.jpeg
resized-720.jpeg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, comment: "CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJ"
</code></pre>

<p>Is this more appropriately posted as an issue for <a href="https://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine</a>?</p>

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2015-08-31T14:38:21.313Z
Do you get the same color discrepancy if you use Imagick from the command line?
Brad Bell
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2015-08-31T15:10:48.690Z
I don't. So I manually set `'imageDriver' => 'imagick'`, cleared the cache, and then they looked good on the server (also no gd-jpeg) header.
Tim Kelty
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2015-08-31T15:12:09.167Z
However, even if I take the imageDriver setting out now, it still works...so it seems at some point when the images were created Craft didn't think I had ImageMagick installed.
Tim Kelty
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2015-08-31T17:21:04.980Z
Huh... weird.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brad Bell
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Asset transform messing with color
# Asset transform messing with color

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-31)

I have a client with very stringent concerns over acurate color in thier images.
They have noticed that image resized from Craft have some dramatic color discrepancies, which I have verified. It's nothing you'd probably notice in a regular photo, but these are actual fabric swatch images, so the color is crucial.
Anyway - first thing I verified was that Imagick was being used, which it is.
However, when I look at the file info, it still says something about gd-jpeg which concerning...not sure if that is just a red herring though.
❯ file resized-720.jpeg
resized-720.jpeg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, comment: "CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJ"

Is this more appropriately posted as an issue for https://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine?

**Tags:** image, image-transforms, imagick
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Do you get the same color discrepancy if you use Imagick from the command line?  
> **username_0**: I don't. So I manually set `'imageDriver' => 'imagick'`, cleared the cache, and then they looked good on the server (also no gd-jpeg) header.  
> **username_0**: However, even if I take the imageDriver setting out now, it still works...so it seems at some point when the images were created Craft didn't think I had ImageMagick installed.  
> **username_1**: Huh... weird.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2015-08-31. Score: 1

Somehow, the images were created thinking Imagick wasn't installed. Clearing the cache forced the images to be recreated and seems to have fixed it.


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