What is a color tint?

A tint gives a whole photo the color of your choice, like a colored gel on a lamp or the warm tone of an old print. A good tint keeps the light and dark parts of the picture where they are: shadows stay dark, highlights stay bright, and only the color changes. At full strength the image becomes a monochrome picture in that color.

Tool description

Open an image, pick a tint color, and set the strength. Low values add a subtle cast, and 100% paints the whole image in shades of the tint. The preview updates as you change the settings, and the compare button shows the original next to the result. Download it as PNG, JPG, or WebP.

Features

  • Any tint color with an adjustable strength
  • Keeps the brightness of every pixel, so the details stay visible
  • Transparent areas stay transparent, processed in your browser

How it works

For each pixel the tool takes the tint color and moves it to the pixel's own brightness, measured in linear light. Where the tint can't be that dark or that bright and keep its color, it fades toward black or white. So pure black and white stay as they are, and tones as bright as the tint itself show it at full strength. The strength then mixes this colored version with the original. It works like the "Color" blend mode of photo editors.

Tips

  • Warm oranges and browns at 30 to 60% give an old photo look, and cool blues a cold, cinematic one.
  • At 100% you get a monochrome image in the tint color, a quick way to match photos to a brand color.
  • A gray tint at 100% turns the image black and white.