Intervention/image · error · Intervention\Image\Exceptions\DriverException

Failed to import color from

Error message

Failed to import color from 

What it means

The mirror of the export failures: import() reads channel values out of the ImagickPixel with getColorValue(); an ImagickPixelException during those reads is wrapped as DriverException('Failed to import color from ImagickPixel'). Typically the pixel belongs to a colorspace where the requested channel is undefined, or the pixel object was invalidated after its parent Imagick was cleared.

Solutions

1. Create the pixel immediately before import and never cache it beyond the parent Imagick object's lifetime.
2. Convert exotic-colorspace images to sRGB first so channel reads are well-defined.
3. Inspect the chained ImagickPixelException message to see which channel read failed and avoid that path.

try { $color = $processor->import($pixel); } catch (DriverException $e) { /* chained ImagickPixelException names the failing channel read */ }

When it happens

Trigger: Importing pixels produced by ImageMagick operations that return degenerate pixels; pixels from exotic-colorspace images where RGB channel derivation fails; caching an ImagickPixel and using it after the parent Imagick object was cleared/destroyed.

Common situations: Low-level integrations that cache pixel objects beyond the Imagick lifetime; formats whose pixel iteration is partially supported by the installed ImageMagick.

Related errors

• Imagick driver can only process colors from instances of
• Colorspace
• Failed to apply…
• Argument $native must be of type
• Base64-encoded data contains unsupported image type

AI-assisted analysis of Intervention/image@5598b9e397 (2026-08-23). Data as JSON: /api/errors/d03ed45ed7328a6d. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src/Drivers/Imagick/ColorProcessor.php:146

                ])->toColorspace(Hsv::class),
                Oklab::class => Rgb::colorFromNormalized([
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_RED),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_GREEN),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_BLUE),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_ALPHA),
                ])->toColorspace(Oklab::class),
                Oklch::class => Rgb::colorFromNormalized([
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_RED),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_GREEN),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_BLUE),
                    $color->getColorValue(Imagick::COLOR_ALPHA),
                ])->toColorspace(Oklch::class),
                default => throw new NotSupportedException(
                    'Colorspace ' . $this->colorspace::class . ' is not supported by driver',
                )
            };
        } catch (ImagickPixelException $e) {
            throw new DriverException(
                'Failed to import color from ' . ImagickPixel::class,
                previous: $e,
            );
        }
    }
}

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