Change Saturation
Increase or decrease the saturation of a photo: boost dull colours, tone down loud ones, or take them all the way to grey, at full resolution.
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Increase or decrease the saturation of a photo: boost dull colours, tone down loud ones, or take them all the way to grey, at full resolution.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
Muted colours first (vibrance) lifts dull tones more than colours that are already strong, so skin and skies do not go neon.
Saturation is how strong the colours in a picture are (color intensity, in US spelling), from grey at one end to a heavily saturated photo at the other. This free saturation editor - an image saturator, a saturation filter, a saturation changer, a saturation adder, whatever you call it - puts that on one slider: drag left to decrease saturation and calm a photo down, or all the way to desaturate it into an exact black and white; drag right to increase saturation and bring out colour in a flat, hazy or overcast shot. Brightness is left alone: each pixel's colour is scaled about its own luma, so lifting the saturation of a sunset makes it redder, not darker or lighter, and pulling it down never changes the exposure.
Plain saturation scales every pixel by the same amount, which is right for a small correction but sends already-strong colours over the top when you push it: skin turns orange and a blue sky goes electric before the dull colours have moved. Muted colours first is the vibrance approach: it measures how saturated each pixel already is and gives the full boost to the pale ones while barely touching the strong ones. Use it to make a landscape or a product photo pop without the cartoon look; use every colour when you want the whole image to shift together or to desaturate it evenly.
Increase the colour intensity of an image for a listing photo, a thumbnail or a print that will come out of the printer duller than the screen; decrease it for a calmer social feed, a muted wedding style, or to knock a scanned photo's faded orange back toward neutral. The details card on the picture reports the average saturation before and after, so you can match two photos from different cameras to the same colour intensity rather than guessing. Fine-tuning brightness and contrast lives on the Change Brightness and Contrast pages, and colour temperature has its own tool.
The download is computed from the original file, never from the preview, so a 24 megapixel photo comes back at 24 megapixels. Save as PNG for a lossless copy, JPG for the smallest file or WebP for both, or copy the result to the clipboard. The uploaded format is kept by default, so a JPG comes back as a JPG.
Nothing is uploaded. The saturation is computed inside your browser, on your device, with no signup, no watermark and no file size limit beyond your own memory.
Open the photo and drag the Saturation slider to the right. Every colour scales the whole picture; Muted colours first boosts the dull tones and protects the strong ones. Press Download to save at full resolution.
Drag the slider all the way left to -100. Every pixel keeps its brightness and loses its colour completely, which gives a true greyscale rather than a faded tint.
Saturation scales every colour by the same factor. Vibrance scales pale colours more and strong colours less, so an image gets richer without skin tones or a blue sky overshooting. On this page vibrance is the Muted colours first option.
No. The adjustment is made about each pixel's luma, so the light and dark values stay exactly where they were and only the colour intensity moves.
No. The picture is processed entirely in your browser; the file never leaves your device.