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Free online grayscale image creator. Just drag and drop your color image here and it will be automatically converted to a grayscale image. You can choose between the three most popular grayscale conversion methods or create a custom method by setting the intensities of the red, green, and blue color channels. Created by engineers from team Browserling.
This tool converts color images into grayscale images. As you may know, all colors that you see in images are actually made out of just three primary colors – red, green, and blue. By combining various amounts of these three colors together, we get images of all possible colors. These three colors are stored in three separate color channels, called the red color channel, the green color channel, and the blue color channel. To create a grayscale image, the tool removes information about how much color is in each of these channels and leaves only information about the amount of light in these channels. As the information about the amount of color is lost, we obtain a grayscale or a black-and-white image. There are also multiple methods for removing the color information from an image. This tool provides the three most popular grayscale conversion formulas as well as gives you the freedom to create a custom formula. Among the most popular conversion formulas is the "Average Color Values" formula, which takes equal amounts of red, green, and blue channels and calculates their average value as "Red/3 + Green/3 + Blue/3" for the amount of light left in the image. The second method is called the "ITU-R BT.709 Formula" (also known as HDTV formula), which applies different weights to the color channels according to the formula "0.21×Red + 0.72×Green + 0.07×Blue", and the third method, known as the "ITU-R BT.601 Formula" (also known as PAL/NTSC formula) utilizes the formula "0.30×Red + 0.59×Green + 0.11×Blue". If you select the "User-defined Weights" option, then you can also create your own custom conversion formula by manually entering the weights that determine how much light is extracted from each color channel. By default, the maximum number of colors (256) are used in the output grayscale image. However, you can also create an image with fewer shades in this program. By using the "Limit Color Shades" option, you can set an arbitrary color limit. For example, you can make the image consist of only 20, 10, or even just 2 shades of gray. Image-abulous!
This example grayscales an image of an adorable doggo. To accomplish this task, it utilizes a math formula from the ITU-R BT.709 standard to convert the colors to grayscale tones. (Source: Pexels.)
This example turns the same image of a doggy into its black-and-white version by applying custom grayscale weights to individual color channels. It sets the coefficients for the red, green, and blue channels equal by assigning them the value "1". As a result, the background in the output image becomes barely visible. (Source: Pexels.)
In this example, we create a six-shade grayscale image of a train in snowy mountains. Such a significant reduction of color space creates the effect of an artificially crafted image rather than a real photograph. Even though just six colors are left, the details in the image are still preserved and it's actually quite difficult to immediately see that the color palette was reduced. The six different grays effectively convey the original image's depth and textures, from the electric lines to the snowy patches in the mountainous backdrop. (Source: Pexels.)
In this example, the weights of the red and green color channels are set to zero, while the blue channel's weight is set to one. As a result, the converter discards the red and green channels and extracts the light information from the blue channel only. In the output image, you can see that the red and green channels are now black because they contain no light information but the blue channel is white because all the light is in it.
This example generates a grayscale image with a limited color palette. Instead of the standard 256 shades, it uses only 12 and applies the average color conversion algorithm, where one-third of each color is mixed together to form a gray tone. In the input image, we see a vivid red gerbera daisy held by a hand against a light blue background. The flower's petals are rich in color, displaying various shades of red and pink. In the output image, each gray tone becomes distinctly visible as there are only twelve distinct shades of gray left. (Source: Pexels.)
Quickly pixelate an area of an image.
Quickly blur an area of an image.
Quickly sharpen an area of an image.
Quickly increase or decrease the brightness of an image.
Quickly increase or decrease the contrast of an image.
Quickly increase or decrease the lightness of an image.
Quickly increase or decrease the hue of an image.
Quickly increase or decrease the saturation of an image.
Quickly add a sepia effect to an image.
Quickly add a rainbow effect to an image.
Quickly apply a popular filter to an image.
Quickly rotate any image by an arbitrary angle.
Quickly resize any image to any size.
Quickly create a larger image from a smaller image.
Quickly create a smaller image from a larger image.
Quickly upsize an image's dimensions proportionally.
Quickly downsize an image's dimensions proportionally.
Quickly crop an area of any image.
Quickly slice a part of an image.
Quickly cut out the desired fragment of an image.
Quickly convert a color image to a grayscale image.
Quickly make multiple copies of an image.
Quickly flip an image horizontally.
Quickly flip an image vertically.
Quickly change the orientation of an image to horizontal or vertical.
Quickly change image orientation from horizontal to vertical.
Quickly change image orientation from vertical to horizontal.
Quickly add text to any image.
Quickly add annotations (text, labels, arrows, boxes) to images.
Quickly add copyright protection to an image.
Quickly hide information in an image by blurring it or blacking it out.
Quickly hide any face in an image behind a blur layer.
Quickly hide any face in an image behind a pixel layer.
Quickly hide any face in an image and safeguard personal data.
Quickly apply a blur mask to car license plates in the image.
Quickly apply a pixel mask to car license plates in the image.
Quickly hide any license plate in an image from unwanted views.
Quickly add noise (pixel grain) effect to an image.
Quickly convert any color in an image to transparent.
Quickly add translucency to the given image.
Quickly make the background of an image transparent.
Quickly add a background to a transparent image.
Quickly change one color to another in any image.
Quickly change the visual quality of any image.
Quickly convert a PNG image to a JPG image.
Quickly convert a JPG image to a PNG image.
Quickly convert a PNG image to a GIF image.
Quickly convert a GIF image to a PNG image.
Quickly convert a PNG image to a BMP image.
Quickly convert a BMP image to a PNG image.
Quickly convert a WebP image to a JPG image.
Quickly convert a JPG image to a WebP image.
Quickly convert a WebP image to a PNG image.
Quickly convert a PNG image to a WebP image.
Quickly convert a WebP image to a GIF image.
Quickly convert a GIF image to a WebP image.
Quickly convert a WebP image to a BMP image.
Quickly convert a BMP image to a WebP image.
Quickly base64-encode a PNG image.
Quickly decode a base64-encoded PNG image.
Quickly convert a BMP image to a GIF image.
Quickly convert a GIF image to a BMP image.
Quickly convert a JPEG image to a bitmap image.
Quickly convert a bitmap image to a JPEG image.
Quickly base64-encode a BMP image.
Quickly base64-decode a bitmap image.
Quickly base64-encode a WebP image.
Quickly base64-decode a bitmap image.
Quickly convert a JPEG image to a single-frame GIF image.
Quickly convert an animated GIF to a JPEG image.
Quickly convert a GIF to base64 encoding.
Quickly convert a base64 encoding to a GIF.
Quickly view and extract frames from GIF animations.
Quickly play a GIF animation frame by frame.
Quickly base64-encode a JPEG image.
Quickly decode a base64-encoded JPEG image.
Quickly change the compression level of a JPG image.
Quickly make the file size of an image smaller.
Quickly convert an image to base64 encoding.
Quickly convert base64 encoding to an image.
Quickly convert an image to a Data URL.
Quickly convert a Data URL to an image.
Quickly add a border around an image.
Quickly remove the border that surrounds the image.
Quickly create a colored outline around objects in the image.
Quickly pad an image from all sides.
Quickly expand an image by adding space around it.
Quickly make corners of any image rounded.
Quickly generate a random image.
Quickly generate an image from text typed on your keyboard.
Quickly explode an image into a bunch of tiny pieces.
Quickly split an image into smaller parts.
Quickly cut an image into horizontal or vertical strips.
Quickly skew an image by the given angle.
Quickly an image to the left or to the right.
Quickly convert all colors in an image to just black and white.
Quickly convert a multicolor image to a duotone image.
Quickly convert an image to the binary art.
Quickly run a dithering algorithm on an image.
Quickly decrease the number of colors in an image.
Quickly simplify the color scheme of the image.
Quickly create a custom image of any color and width/height.
Quickly create an image with a linear or radial gradient.
Quickly create an empty image of arbitrary size.
Quickly create a one-color image of the desired shade.
Quickly invert all pixels in an image to the opposite color.
Quickly use a color picker to select a color in an image.
Quickly find dominant colors in an image.
Quickly find the tones that form the color palette of the image.
Quickly generate image size, format, pixel, and color palette information.
Quickly confirm or refute the PNG image format.
Quickly confirm or refute the JPG image format.
Quickly confirm or refute the WebP image format.
Quickly confirm or refute the GIF image format.
Quickly confirm or refute the BMP image format.
Quickly determine the image file size in bytes and kilobytes.
Quickly find the width, height, orientation, and aspect ratio of an image.
Quickly open and view images in your browser.
Quickly redraw an image using only web-safe colors.
Quickly separate RGBA, CMYK, and HSL channels from an image.
Quickly show the red, green, blue, and alpha channel of the RGBA color scheme.
Quickly show the hue, saturation, and light channels of the HSL color scheme.
Quickly show the hue, saturation, and value channels of the HSV color scheme.
Quickly show the hue, saturation, and intensity channels of the HSI color scheme.
Quickly show the cyan, magenta, yellow, and key channels of the CMYK color scheme.
Quickly show the lightness, A, and B channels of the LAB color scheme.
Quickly show the luma (Y) and chrominance (I and Q) channels of the YIQ color scheme.
Quickly show the hue, chroma, and luminance channels of the HCL color scheme.
Quickly show the luminance, chroma, and hue channels of the LCH color scheme.
Quickly show the Y (luma), Cb (blue-difference), and Cr (red-difference) channels of the YCbCr color scheme.
Quickly change the base color scheme in the image.
Quickly refine the image object's edges by removing noisy pixels.
Quickly select any object in the image and extract it by its color.
Quickly remove a specific color region from any image.
Quickly remove a green screen from any image.
Quickly remove a chroma key from any image.
Quickly check if an image has transparent pixels.
Quickly view transparent, semi-transparent, and opaque areas in an image.
Quickly generate a black silhouette of objects in an image.
Quickly create a stencil from opaque objects in an image.
Quickly rotate pixels around a central point in an image.
Quickly convert an image to a polaroid snapshot.
Quickly add a symmetrical part to your image.
Quickly optimize the quality of an image.
Quickly add a block or glitch compression effect to the image.
Quickly convert an image to R, G, B values.
Quickly create an image from an R, G, B array.
Quickly convert an image to hex codes.
Quickly create an image from a list of hex codes.
Quickly convert a set of symbols into an image using color assignment rules.
Edit images in your browser.
Place images on a grid so that they make a Fibonacci spiral.
Convert a PNG image to an ICO icon.
Convert an ICO icon to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a PNG image.
Convert a JPEG image to an ICO icon.
Convert an ICO icon to a JPEG image.
Convert a JPEG image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a JPEG image.
Convert a GIF image to an ICO icon.
Convert an ICO icon to a GIF image.
Convert a GIF image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a GIF image.
Convert a GIF image to an APNG icon.
Convert an APNG image to a PNG image.
Convert a bitmap image to an ICO icon.
Convert an ICO icon to a bitmap image.
Convert a bitmap image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a bitmap image.
Convert a Webp image to an ICO icon.
Convert an ICO icon to a Webp image.
Convert a Webp image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a Webp image.
Create an animated GIF image from static frames.
Create an image from an B, G, R array.
Create an image from an R, G, B, A array.
Create an image from an B, G, R, A array.
Increase the quality of an image.
Decrease the quality of an image.
Apply OCR on an image and extract all text from it.
Erase text or label from an image.
Erase any object from an image.
Convert an image to a thumbnail
Convert a PNG, GIF, JPG or BMP to glitch art.
Let Zalgo destroy an image.
Change an image color space to HSL, HSV, CMYK, or RGB.
Change an image bit depth to 32, 24, 16, 8, 4, 2 bits or just 1 bit.
Create a mosaic wall from multiple images.
Create an ASCII art image from a regular image.
Create an ANSI art image from a regular image.
Create a Unicode art image from a regular image.
Create a Braille art image from a regular image.
Add a short one-line label to an image.
Remove a watermark from an image.
Create an image made out of dots of varying size and spacing.
Convert an image to a bunch of blocks.
Create a GIF from the original image with interlacing effect.
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