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6 ppmbrighten - change a PPM image's Saturation and Value
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10 ppmbrighten [-normalize] [-saturation=[+|-saturation_percent]]
11 [-value=[+|-value_percent]] ppmfile
12 Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use dou‐
14 ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use
15 white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
16 its value.
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20 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
21 ppmbrighten increases or decreases the Saturation and Value (from the
23 HSV color space) of each pixel of a PPM image. You specify the per
24 centage change for each of those parameters.
25 You can also remap the colors of the pixels so their Values cover the
27 full range of possible Values.
28 Hue-Saturation-Value, or HSV, is one way to represent a color, like the
30 more well-known RGB. Hue, Saturation, and Value are numbers in the
31 range from 0 to 1. We always capitalize them in this document when we
32 mean the number from the HSV color space, especially since "value" as a
33 conventional English word has a much more abstract meaning.
34 Value is a measure of how bright the color is, relative to some speci‐
36 fied maximum (the PPM format is also defined in terms of a specified
37 maximum brightness -- For the purposes of this program, they are the
38 same). In particular, it is the brightness of the brightest primary
39 color component of the color divided by the maximum brightness possible
40 for a component. Zero Value means black. White has full Value.
41 Hue is an indication of the secondary color with the same brightness
43 that most closely approximates the color. A secondary color is made of
44 a combination of at most two of the primary colors.
45 Saturation is a measure of how close the color is to the color indi‐
47 cated by the Hue and Value. A lower number means more light of the
48 third primary color must be added to get the exact color. Full Satura‐
49 tion means the color is a secondary color. Zero Saturation means the
50 color is gray (or black or white). Decreasing the saturation of a
51 color tends to make it washed out.
52 If it is impossible to increase the Value of a pixel by the amount you
54 specify (e.g. the Value is .5 and you specify +200%), ppmbrighten
55 increases it to full Value instead.
56 If it is impossible to increase the Saturation of a pixel by the amount
58 you specify (e.g. it is already half saturated and you specify +200%),
59 ppmbrighten increases it to full Saturation instead.
60 For a simpler kind of brightening, you can use pamfunc -multiplier sim‐
62 ply to increase the brightness of each pixel by a specified per cent‐
63 age, clipping each RGB component where the calculated brightness would
64 exceed full brightness. Thus, the brightest colors in the image would
65 change chromaticity in addition to not getting the specified brightness
66 boost. For decreasing brightness, pamfunc should do the same thing as
67 ppmbrighten.
68 ppmflash does another kind of brightening. It changes the color of
70 each pixel to bring it a specified per centage closer to white. This
71 increases the value and saturation.
72 pambrighten is the same as ppmbrighten, except that it recognizes the
74 various Netpbm image formats rather than treating them all as PPM. The
75 output format is the same as the input format and extra channels in a
76 PAM image (such as a transparency channel) get passed through.
77 If you want to modify the Hues in the image, use pamhue.
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83 To double the Value of each pixel:
84 ppmbrighten -value=100
85 To double the Saturation and halve the Value of each pixel:
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91 -value=value_percent
92 This option specifies the amount, as a per centage, by which you
93 want to change the Value of each pixel. It may be negative.
94 -saturation=value_percent
97 This option specifies the amount, as a per centage, by which you
98 want to change the Saturation of each pixel. It may be nega‐
99 tive.
100 -normalize
104 This option causes ppmbrighten to normalize contrast by linearly
105 remapping the Values of the pixels to cover the range 0 to 1.
106 ppmbrighten applies the brightening that you specify with the
108 -value option after the remapping.
109 Before Netpbm 10.14 (March 2003), your input must be from a
111 seekable file (not a pipe) to use -normalize. If it isn't, the
112 program fails with a bogus error message.
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118 pnmnorm(1), ppmdim(1), pamfunc(1), ppmflash(1), pambrighten(1), pamalt‐
119 sat(1), pamdepth(1), pnmgamma(1), pamhue(1), ppmhist(1), ppm(1)
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123 Copyright (C) 1990 by Brian Moffet. Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef
124 Poskanzer.
125 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
127 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro‐
128 vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
129 both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
130 porting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without
131 express or implied warranty.
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134 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
135 source. The master documentation is at
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