Image Filters
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- Upload your image file
- Tick the filters you want — one, or several together
- Download the filtered picture
Apply Filters to a Photo
Six effects, each a tick box, so you can apply one on its own or combine several. Turn a picture black and white, soften it slightly, bring out the edges, or give it a warm faded look. Everything is applied at full resolution and downloaded in one step.
The Six Filters
- Grayscale – strips the colour out completely for a straight black-and-white photograph.
- Sepia – removes the colour, then tints the result warm brown, the way an old print looks.
- Vintage – keeps the colour but pushes the reds up and the blues back, for a faded, sun-worn feel.
- Cool – the opposite: takes the red down and the blue up, giving a cold, bluish cast.
- Blur – a gentle softening. It takes the hard edge off a picture rather than obscuring anything.
- Edge enhance – strengthens the outlines in a picture, making detail stand out more crisply.
Stacking More Than One
Because these are tick boxes rather than a single dropdown, they combine. Vintage + blur gives a soft, faded, aged look. Cool + edge enhance produces something sharper and colder. Experiment freely — Clear Filters puts everything back.
One combination to know about: grayscale is applied last, so ticking it alongside sepia or vintage wipes out the colour those add. If you want the brown tone, use sepia on its own.
How to Add a Filter to a Picture
- Click the upload area above or drag and drop your image (up to 7 MB).
- Tick the filters you want. Combine them if you like.
- Click Apply & Proceed to Download.
When You Might Need This
- Turning a photo black and white for a print, a card or a CV
- Giving a set of pictures one consistent look before posting them
- Ageing a modern photo so it fits alongside older family pictures
- Warming up a picture that came out cold and bluish, or cooling one that came out too orange
- Making outlines clearer in a photo of a diagram, sketch or whiteboard
Supported Formats and Limits
Upload JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or TIFF, up to 7 MB.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tick Grayscale on its own and download. That removes the colour entirely, leaving a true black-and-white image. If you want the warmer, brownish look of an old photograph rather than neutral grey, tick Sepia instead — and do not tick both, since grayscale is applied afterwards and would strip the tint straight back out.
Yes — that is the point of the tick boxes. Any combination works, and they are applied in a fixed order: edge enhance, then sepia, then vintage, then cool, then blur, then grayscale. Vintage with a touch of blur is a good aged look; edge enhance with cool gives something crisp and clinical.
Because grayscale runs last in the chain. Sepia tints the picture brown, and grayscale then removes all colour information — including that tint. The two cancel out by design rather than by accident. Pick whichever look you want and use it alone.
No, and it is not meant to be. This blur is a gentle softening applied across the whole picture — a stylistic touch, not a way of concealing anything. Everything stays perfectly recognisable. To obscure somebody's identity, use Blur Faces, which is built for that and applies a far stronger blur to faces only.
It increases the contrast right along the boundaries between light and dark areas, which makes outlines and fine detail read more clearly. It is closer to sharpening than to an artistic effect, and it works well on photographs of documents, diagrams and sketches. On a portrait it can be unflattering, since it emphasises skin texture along with everything else.
This page applies fixed effects that you can stack, including ones that are not about colour at all — grayscale, blur and edge enhance. Color Effects works on colour alone, applying one effect at a time but letting you dial its strength up or down on a slider. Use this page to combine looks; use Color Effects when you want fine control over how strong a single colour treatment is.
Not from the downloaded file — filters are baked into the pixels, and removing colour in particular cannot be reversed, because the original colour values are simply gone. Keep your original file. While you are still on the panel, Clear Filters returns the picture to its unfiltered state.
Related Image Tools
- Color Effects – one colour effect at a time, with an adjustable strength
- Enhance Image – correct brightness, contrast and sharpness rather than styling
- Blur Faces – hide somebody's identity in a photo
- Photo Art Effects – sketch, painting and watercolour looks
- Compress Image – make the file smaller