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NAME
pamrecolor - alter colors without affecting luminance

SYNOPSIS
pamrecolor [--colorspace=name] [--rmult=fraction] [--gmult=fraction] [--bmult=fraction]
[--targetcolor=color] [--colorfile=file] [-randomseed=integer]

[infile]

Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead
of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign
to separate an option name from its value.

DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pamrecolor changes an image's colors to be as close as possible to given target colors but
with the constraint that the luminance not be modified. That is, the original image and
the target image will look identical if both are converted to grayscale (e.g. with ppm-
topgm(1)). You can have pamrecolor select target colors randomly, specify a single hue
for the entire image, or take the target colors from a target image.

pamrecolor works on pseudo-Netpbm images based on arbitrary color spaces. You can define
the color space explicitly or choose one of many that pamrecolor knows by name.

The output is a PAM image on standard output. Options control the exact format of the
PAM. If you want a PNM (PBM, PGM, or PPM) image, use pamtopnm(1) on the output. There is
no need to convert if you will use the image as input to a current Netpbm program, but
many other programs don't know what a PAM is.

OPTIONS
--colorspace=name
Designate the color space to use for determining the contribution to luminance of
each of the red, green, and blue color channels. For example, in the SMPTE-C color
space an RGB color is converted to grayscale by multiplying the red channel by
0.2124132, the green channel by 0.7010437, and the blue channel by 0.0865432 and
summing the resulting three products.

When you use this option, the input and output images are not true Netpbm images,
because the Netpbm image format specifies a particular color space. Instead, you
are using a variation on the format in which the sample values in the raster have
different meaning. Many programs that ostensibly use Netpbm images actually use a
variation with a different color space, For example, GIMP <http://www.gimp.org/>
uses sRGB internally and if you have GIMP generate a Netpbm image file, it really
generates a variation of the format that uses sRGB.

pamrecolor knows the following color spaces (name values):

adobe

Adobe RGB (1998) with a D65 reference white

apple

Apple RGB with a D65 reference white

cie

CIE with an Illuminant E reference white

ntsc

NTSC RGB with an Illuminant C reference white

pal

PAL/SECAM with a D65 reference white

smpte-c

SMPTE-C with a D65 reference white

srgb

sRGB with a D65 reference white

wide

Wide-gamut RGB with a D50 reference white

The default is "ntsc" because this is the color space that the Netpbm format of
Netpbm and many other graphics utilities. As a counterexample, GIMP
<http://www.gimp.org/> uses sRGB as its native color space.

The luminance values pamrecolor uses for each of the above come from Bruce Lind-
bloom's Computing RGB-to-XYZ and XYZ-to-RGB matrices" (1) page.

--rmult=fraction

--gmult=fraction

--bmult=fraction
Instead of selecting a color space by name, you can specify explicitly the contri-
bution of each color channel to the overall luminance as red, green, and blue mul-
tipliers. These three options must be used together, and the three fraction values
must sum to 1.0. For example, you can specify the ProPhoto (ROMM) RGB color space
with "--rmult=0.2880402 --gmult=0.7118741 --bmult=0.0000857".

--targetcolor=color
Designate color as the target color for the image. pamrecolor will make each pixel
as close as possible to color subject to the constraint that the luminance must
stay the same as in the original image. Specify color as in the argument of the
ppm_parsecolor() library routine <libppm.html#colorname> (e.g., "hotpink" or
"#ff69b4").

If you specify neither --targetcolor nor --colorfile, pamrecolor will randomly
select a target color for each pixel of the input image.

You may not specify both -targetcolor and -colorfile.

--colorfile=file
Take per-pixel target colors from Netpbm file file instead of using a single target
color for the entire image. file should be a PPM or color PAM image. If the image
in the file wider or taller than the input image, pamrecolor uses only the left and
top part of it. If the image is narrower or shorter, pamrecolor considers the
image to be repeated in a tile pattern.

If you specify neither --targetcolor nor --colorfile, pamrecolor will randomly
select a target color for each pixel of the input image.

You may not specify both -targetcolor and -colorfile.

-randomseed=integer
This is the seed for the random number generator that generates the pixels.

Use this to ensure you get the same image on separate invocations.

By default, pamrecolor uses a seed derived from the time of day and process ID,
which gives you fairly uncorrelated results in multiple invocations.

This option was new in Netpbm 10.61 (December 2012).

EXAMPLES
This command tints an image yellow:

pamrecolor --targetcolor=yellow colorpic.pam > yellowpic.pam

This command takes the colors from colorpicture.ppm and applies them to graypicture.pgm:

pamrecolor --colorfile=colorpic.ppm graypic.pgm > colorizedpic.pam

The grayscale version of colorizedpic.pam will look just like graypic.pgm. Note that if
you use a non-Netpbm tool to do the conversion to grayscale, you may additionally need to
specify an appropriate --colorspace value for your conversion tool.

NOTES
Here are a couple of fun special effects you can produce with pamrecolor:

o Specify a color file that is identical to the input image but with some large, col-
ored text added to it. The text will "magically" vanish when the image is con-
verted to grayscale.

o Provide a low-contrast grayscale image - perhaps a secret message written in simi-
lar shades of gray - as the input file and a colorful but completely different
image as the color file. If done carefully, the grayscale image can be hidden by
the colorful image. Only people who know to convert the result to grayscale can
recover the original grayscale image.

o Use --targetcolor=tan to make an image look like an old-timey photograph (or, more
precisely, a sepia-toned photograph
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_print_toning> of the late 1800s).

HISTORY
Scott Pakin wrote pamrecolor in July 2010.

pamrecolor was new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).