Replace specific color of image

[mefuzar]

Hi,

I am trying to achieve something very similar to the problem described in this post, i.e: change colour of an image with another colour but the problem is that I would like to change it with white.

This is not grayscale as I would like to set specific RGB which will transition to white.

for example, I have an image of 4 pixels:
(0,0,0)=BLACK
(32,0,0)=VERY VERY LIGHT RED
(64,0,0)=VERY LIGHT RED
(128,0,0)=LIGHT RED

so the LIGHT RED will be changed to white (255,255,255) , VERY LIGHT RED to GREY and VERY VERY LIGHT RED to LIGHT GREY.

It is a little bit hard for me to explain, for example, if I have a source picture of a red gradient, starts with BLACK and finishes at (128,0,0)
i will be able to set (128,0,0) as: (255,255,255) and get a BLACK to WHITE gradient output which will match the source.

I have tried: Fred's ImageMagick color2gray but did not know how to use it and was not sure it is the right script to solve this problem.

Thank you very much in advance,
Shuki

[fmw42]

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convert colorimage -colorspace gray grayimage

My script does the same, but allows different types of representation of "gray".

[mefuzar]

Hi Fred,

Thank you for your answer and your scripts are awesome BTW!!!

I have tried the command you have posted, and I can't seem to get the effect I want.

Here is an example, the following image has 4 squares:
RGB = 16,0,0 (left upper)
RGB = 32,0,0 (right upper)
RGB = 64,0,0 (left down)
RGB = 128,0,0 (right down)


After converting using the "convert red.png -colorspace gray gray.png" command, i get the following:


You can clearly see the right down square is not white.

The problem is that I want the grayscale image to be referenced to the maximum red value, i.e: specify somehow to Imagemagick that the red (RGB: 128,0,0) should be: white (RGB: 255,255,255).

I am expecting a result that the right down square will be completely white and the three will be darker compared to it.

Do you know of a way to achieve this task using Imagemagick?

Thank you very much in advance,
Shuki

[snibgo]

It is a little bit hard for me to explain, for example, if I have a source picture of a red gradient, starts with BLACK and finishes at (128,0,0)
i will be able to set (128,0,0) as: (255,255,255) and get a BLACK to WHITE gradient output which will match the source.

Put this another way: make a grayscale image from just the red channel, and auto-level it.

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convert redsq.png -channel Red -separate +channel -auto-level out.png

[mefuzar]

This is exactly what I was looking for... thank you so much both of you!!!