[magick-users] Normalize improving?

[Grant]

Thanks again Fred.  I really appreciate your help.  I'll experiment
with contrast-stretch.

- Grant


> Grant,
>
> I am sorry but there is no ONE way that is always best. IM does not
> yet have an autolevels function such as in Photoshop and even that
> has limitations. You will just have to try a some variations of
> -contrast-stretch percentages on a number of sample images until you
> find something that works more or less well for your range of images.
>
> I would definitely upgrade to the latest IM version.  I don't recall
> what version you are on. But there have been many improvements and
> speed ups in the later versions.
>
> If you were not using Perlmagick or some other API, I would recommend
> using one of my bash unix scripts, either redist or retinex. They are
> closer to a more consistent approach than even autolevels. But these
> scripts only run in command line IM, unless you are capable of
> re-writing them in Perlmagick. But I would still test in command line
> mode first on a number of your images until you find whether either
> script works well for you.
>
> If you are interested in experimenting in command line mode with my
> scripts, you can get them at
> http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.html
>
>
> Fred
>
>
>>Thanks Fred.  I don't want to fine-tune for each image, so which
>>technique do you think it most likely to work well for any image I run
>>through it?  I can update imagemagick no problem.  Will I fare better
>>with a newer version?
>>
>>- Grant
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