Smart Grayscale Converter turns an RGB color image into monochrome in a way that can preserve a user-defined hue. It’s a free web application that works directly in the browser. This little software adds a color splash photo effect to your images with just a few clicks.
Drag and Drop
or
Click the Browse button to select file from your device.
Press Ctrl+V to paste an image from clipboard.
Use a sample image
About the Converter
Smart Grayscale Converter is a free image utility that can introduce a Color Splash effect (or Dark mood) to your RGB photographs. The tool converts an RGB image to gray-scale, while you have the Smart option to select a color to keep. This photo effect is a great way to highlight a part of your photos or illustrations.
You can use this online application to turn the entire image into monochrome or keep a color tint intact. This way you can draw extra attention to what you think is the important part of the image.
The gray scale converter supports many popular image formats such as PNG, SVG, JPEG (JPG). Works online without registration and watermark! No need to download or install it! Just a few clicks and you have a mixture of gray-scale and color image.
How it works?
Grayscale Converter uses color-space transformations to merge RGB channels into a monochrome color. At the same time, the user can select a specific color to keep in the full spectrum.
Time needed: 1 minute
This image editing app is easy to use and here are some steps that describe the process.
- Use the Browse button to select an image
Select an image from the “Open File” dialog box and click the “Open” button. In general, you can use different formats like JPEG, PNG and others.
- Select the color you want to keep
Left click on the image or use the color picker to select the shade you want to keep.
- Adjust the Tolerance
The Tolerance slider controls the color threshold. The larger the value, the more shades will be affected. Move the slider to 0 to get a completely monochrome image.
Example Result
The following image shows a partial grayscale image with the red color unchanged.

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