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authorgiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2019-01-13 22:43:37 +0000
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 <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Ppmbrighten User Manual</TITLE></HEAD>
 <BODY>
 <H1>ppmbrighten</H1>
-Updated: 26 October 2012
+Updated: 12 January 2019
 <BR>
 <A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A>
 
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ For <em>decreasing</em> brightness, <b>pamfunc</b> should do the same thing as
 color of each pixel to bring it a specified per centage closer to white.
 This increases the value and saturation.
 
+<p><b>pambrighten</b> is the same as <b>ppmbrighten</b>, except that it
+recognizes the various Netpbm image formats rather than treating them all as
+PPM.  The output format is the same as the input format and extra channels in
+a PAM image (such as a transparency channel) get passed through.
+
 <p>If you want to modify the Hues in the image, use <b>pamhue</b>.
 
   
@@ -108,10 +113,8 @@ to change the Saturation of each pixel.  It may be negative.
 
 <DT><b>-normalize</b>
 
-<DD>This option causes <b>ppmbrighten</b> to linearly remap the Values
-of the pixels to cover the range 0 to 1.  The option name is wrong --
-this operation is not normalization (it was named in error and the
-name has been kept for backward compatibility).
+<DD>This option causes <b>ppmbrighten</b> to normalize contrast by linearly
+remapping the Values of the pixels to cover the range 0 to 1.
 
 <p><b>ppmbrighten</b> applies the brightening that you specify with 
 the <b>-value</b> option <em>after</em> the remapping.
@@ -128,6 +131,7 @@ with a bogus error message.
 <A HREF="ppmdim.html">ppmdim</A>, 
 <A HREF="pamfunc.html">pamfunc</A>, 
 <A HREF="ppmflash.html">ppmflash</A>, 
+<A HREF="ppmflash.html">pambrighten</A>, 
 <A HREF="pamaltsat.html">pamaltsat</A>, 
 <A HREF="pamdepth.html">pamdepth</A>, 
 <A HREF="pnmgamma.html">pnmgamma</A>,