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I've searched the fora for a way to paste one image onto another and in this thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23858 I found:
Which works except the transparency of the "foregroundimage" gets copied as well. Meaning part of the non-transparent area of the "backgroundimage" has now become semi-transparent. (transparency getting averaged it seems).

How can I copy the foregroundimage while keeping non-transparent parts of the backgroundimage non-transparent?
I use ImageMagick-6.8.4-10-Q16-x86-windows and all images are pngs made using

You can turn off the alpha channel in foregroundimage. All pixels from foregroundimage will be opaque. If you don't use parentheses, alpha is turned off in both images: See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... .php#alpha

If I turn alpha channel off in the foregroundimage I see a big white blob where the other (background) image should be.

Maybe this is a better way to say it:
foregroundimage transparent area + backgroundimage non-transparent area = non-transparent backgroundimage and
foregroundimage non-transparent area + backgroundimage transparent area = non-transparent foregroundimage

The non-transparent parts should not overlap and overlapping transparency parts can stay transparent.

BTW: also gives semi-transparent images.

Sorry, I don't understand what you want. You can post sample images to dropbox.com or similar and paste the links here, then explain what you want.