USAGE: bcmatch [-c colormode] [-s satmode] infile1 infile2 outfile
USAGE: bcmatch [-h or -help]

-c .... colormode ..... colorspace/channel to use to compute
....................... brightness and contrast statistics;
....................... choices are: gray, intensity, luminance,
....................... lightness, brightness, average, magnitude,
....................... rgb; default=gray
-s .... satmode ....... colorspace mode to use to modify saturation;
....................... choices are: HSB or HSL; default is no
....................... change in saturation.
....................... infile2 will be modified to match infile1

PURPOSE: To modify one image to try to match its brightness, contrast and optionally saturation to that of another image.

DESCRIPTION: BCMATCH modifies one image to try to match its brightness and contrast and optionally saturation to that of another image. The second image will be modified to match the first image. Saturation changes only apply to color images, not grayscale ones. The choice of colormode determines what colorspace or channel will be used to measure the mean and standard deviation of the two images. The differences in mean and standard deviation are equated to brightness and contrast changes, which then are converted to intercept and slope of a linear transformation. This linear transformation is then applied to the second image to make the output. If colormode=rgb, then each channel of the second image will be processed idependently. For all other colormodes, a common transformation will be applied to all channels of the second image.

IMPORTANT: As this is a linear transformation, it may not do justice to any non-linear differences between the two images, such as gamma modifications. Furthermore, once information is lost, especially due to too much contrast change, it generally cannot be adequately recovered.

ARGUMENTS:

-c colormode ... COLORMODE is the colorspace/channel to use to compute the brightness and contrast values of the two images. The choices are: gray, intensity, luminance, lightness, brightness, average, magnitude and rgb. Values of gray and intensity are equivalent. If colormode=rgb, then each channel of the image will be processed independently. The default is gray.

Gray or Intensity uses statistics from -colorspace Gray.
Luminance uses statistics from -colorspace Rec709Luma.
Lightness uses statistics from the lightness channel of -colorspace HSL.
Brightness uses statistics from the brightness channel of -colorspace HSB.
Average uses statistics from the first channel of -colorspace OHTA.
Magnitude uses aggregate statistics from all the channels.
RGB uses statistics independently from each channel of -colorspace sRGB/RGB.
See definitions at: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#colorspace

Note: generally there are only slight differences between the various non-rgb colormode results. Colormode=rgb can cause color balance shifts.

-s satmode ... SATMODE is the choice of saturation colorspace to use when modifying the saturation. Choices are: HSB and HSL. The default is to make no change in saturation. If used, I recommend HSB. This argument is only applicable when both images are color (not grayscale).

REQUIRES: IM version 6.4.8-9 or higher due to the use of -function polynomial

CAVEAT: No guarantee that this script will work on all platforms, nor that trapping of inconsistent parameters is complete and foolproof. Use At Your Own Risk.