diff --git a/src/ImageProcessorCore/Colors/Color.cs b/src/ImageProcessorCore/Colors/Color.cs
index 36cb548fb..a33ee7c82 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessorCore/Colors/Color.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessorCore/Colors/Color.cs
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ namespace ImageProcessorCore
                 float a = Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(0, 2), 16);
 
                 // Do division of Vector4 instead of each component to utilize SIMD optimizations
-                this.backingVector = FromNonPremultiplied(new Vector4(r, g, b, a) / 255f, this.A);
+                this.backingVector = new Vector4(r, g, b, a) / 255f;
+                this.backingVector = FromNonPremultiplied(this.backingVector, this.A);
 
             }
             else if (hex.Length == 6)