To combine two images of the same size with ImageMagick, you simply do the following:
The following will overlay overlay.png on top of output.png
mogrify -draw "image SrcOver 0,0 0,0 'overlay.png'" output.png |
While this one will overlay overlay.png on top of input.png and save it as output.png
convert input.png -draw "image SrcOver 0,0 0,0 'overlay.png'" output.png |
You can download imagemagick from http://www.imagemagick.org/