Image/Color differencing commands?

I was surprised to not find functions relating to the difference in color between two images, such that would allow me to see how similar or different two images are from each other and compute it to a single image difference value.

Do commands like this exist and I’m just missing them under a unfamiliar name?

From what I know, comparing colors is usually done :

Thank you!


I guessed that it was labeled in a more scientific way.

Is there anyplace that I can view the list of commands paired with their descriptions (opposed to clicking on each one)? I suspect that this will not be the last time my limited image processing lingo will cause a problem.

For this, I use blend difference. Or I subtract a image by a image, then use abs command.

On Linux i can type gmic help | more in my terminal, or gmic help > gmic_help.txt which will save everything to a txt file.
Or gmic h [command] if you know the command name (pressing TAB helps too, sometimes).