There's definitely something going wrong on the oiiotool side... in particular, 
the -iconfig oiio:UnassociatedAlpha 1 is getting lost somehow.


> On Feb 8, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Stephen Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> re: unassociated alpha - I ran into something similar when pushing PNG's to 
> iOS devices from XCode. Apparently Apple uses a modified libpng and added a 
> special chunk denoting that the file (against the png spec) is premultiplied 
> and XCode did that premult step automagically when bundling. That took awhile 
> to figure out. This test.png is NOT one of those files though. It comes from 
> Unity. Thanks again for digging into it.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:02 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I can answer that question, but then it leads right back to something ELSE 
> that's probably my fault. :-)
> 
> OK, so PNG is, by specification, "unassociated alpha" (what some people call 
> "un-premultiplied"), and OIIO by convention always passes <ahem, CORRECT> 
> "associated alpha", which means that when reading unassoc files it will 
> automatically multiply RGB by A before giving the values to the app. 
> 
> Your file has alpha = 0, which is supposed to mean (for PNG) that the 
> appearance is black everywhere.
> 
> This auto-conversion of unassociated to associated that happens in OIIO's PNG 
> reader can be disabled with a special configuration attribute, so the correct 
> command line should have been this:
> 
> oiiotool -iconfig oiio:UnassociatedAlpha 1 steveparker.png -ch R,G=R,B=R,A=R  
> -o out.tif
> 
> ... Except something is going wrong there as well. Ugh. I'm trying to 
> understand why. Stand by.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:52 PM, Stephen Parker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Indeed. That was my first reaction too. But then why doesn't this work:
>> 
>> oiiotool test.png --ch "R=R,B=R,G=R" -o out.png
>> 
>> oiiotool test.png --ch "R=R,B=R,G=R,A=1.0" -o out.png
>> 
>> I figured it was user error.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 2:39 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Doesn't the fact that everything interesting ends up in out-0.png tell us 
>> that the alpha was black all along, and it was the red channel that you're 
>> after?
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Stephen Parker <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ... actually, disregard the -swap as -separate is all that's needed.
>>> 
>>> convert test.png -separate out.png
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:51 PM Stephen Parker <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Try:
>>> 
>>> convert test.png -separate -swap 4,0 out.png
>>> 
>>> You should get an image written out for each channel. "out-0.png" can be 
>>> opened in Preview.app.
>>> 
>>> -s
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:38 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> On my mac, ImageMagick "convert test.png test.tif" also results in what 
>>> appears to be a black image.
>>> 
>>> And using ImageMagick's "identify -verbose", I see these stats:
>>> 
>>>     Alpha:
>>>       min: 0  (0)
>>>       max: 0 (0)
>>>       mean: 0 (0)
>>>       standard deviation: 0 (0)
>>>       kurtosis: -3
>>>       skewness: 0
>>>       entropy: 0
>>> 
>>> Are you *sure* that the alpha channel isn't really 0 everywhere?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 11:55 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hmmm... it's not just "--ch", that image looks "black" (all 0.0 values) in 
>>>> all channels to all OIIO tools. (For example, `oiiotool -stats test.png`) 
>>>> I'm suspecting something in the reader rather than an issue with channel 
>>>> selection.
>>>> 
>>>> Looking into it.
>>>> 
>>>>    -- lg
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Stephen Parker <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Larry,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm on the release branch. Here is the PNG in question (attached).
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:12 AM Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> Which version of OIIO?
>>>>> And I don't suppose you can send me an example PNG that has the problem? 
>>>>> Or is it weird for every png you try?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 10:59 AM, Stephen Parker <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm having some trouble using oiiotool's copy channel operator. It might 
>>>>>> be user error but I wanted to check and see if it's intended behavior. 
>>>>>> I've only glanced at the code so far.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My test image is a PNG (4-channel RGBA), but only has information in the 
>>>>>> Alpha. When attempting to copy the Alpha into the other 3 channels and 
>>>>>> write out an RGB image (no Alpha), I get black. Imagemagick's 'convert' 
>>>>>> did what I expected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> invoked as:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> oiiotool input.png --ch "R=A,G=A,B=A" -o output.png
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I also tried using the numeric channel labels to no avail.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -sp
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