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Convert an image to grayscale in HTML/CSS
Is there a simple way to display a color bitmap in grayscale with just HTML/CSS?
It doesn't need to be IE-compatible (and I imagine it won't be) -- if it works in FF3 and/or Sf3, that's good enough for me.
I know I can do it with both SVG and…

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Display image as grayscale using matplotlib
I'm trying to display a grayscale image using matplotlib.pyplot.imshow(). My problem is that the grayscale image is displayed as a colormap. I need it to be grayscale because I want to draw on top of the image with color.
I read in the image and…

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Image Greyscale with CSS & re-color on mouse-over?
I am looking to take an icon that is colored (and will be a link) and turn it greyscale until the user places their mouse over the icon (where it would then color the image).
Is this possible to do, and in a way that is IE & Firefox supported?

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Convert RGB to Grayscale in ImageMagick command-line
How do I convert a RGB image (3 channels) to a grayscale one, using the (r+g+b)/3 method?
I look through an examples page: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/#grayscale
but the desired method:
convert test.png -fx '(r+g+b)/3'…

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Greyscale Background Css Images
I've searched a lot on the web but I cannot find a cross browser solution to fade a css backgrund image to greyscale and back.
The only working solution is to apply CSS3 filter greyscale:
-webkit-filter: grayscale(100%);
but this works just with…

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Convert an image to grayscale
Is there a way to convert an image to grayscale 16 bits per pixel format, rather than setting each of the r,g and b components to luminance. I currently have a bmp from file.
Bitmap c = new Bitmap("filename");
I want a Bitmap d, that is grayscale…

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Read image grayscale opencv 3.0.0-dev
I am trying to read images directly as black and white.
I recently updated my OpenCv version to 3.0.0-dev, and the code that I used before does not work anymore.
img = cv2.imread(f, cv2.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE)
works fine for 2.4 but does not…

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Convert a Bitmap to GrayScale in Android
I am new to this site, and I come with a question about Android.
Is there any way to convert a Bitmap to grayscale? I know how to draw a grayscale bitmap (using canvas operations:…

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In OpenCV (Python), why am I getting 3 channel images from a grayscale image?
I am using Python (2.7) and bindings for OpenCV 2.4.6 on Ubuntu 12.04
I load an image
image = cv2.imread('image.jpg')
I then check the shape of the image array
print image.shape
I get (480, 640, 3), which I expect for a 640x480 colour…

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How can I convert a cv::Mat to a gray scale in OpenCv?
How can I convert a cv::Mat to a gray scale?
I am trying to run drawKeyPoints func from opencv, however I have been getting an Assertion Filed error. My guess is that it needs to receive a gray scale image rather than a color image in the…

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Android : Converting color image to grayscale
I am trying to convert color image into grayscale using the average of red, green, blue. But it comes out with errors.
Here is my code
imgWidth = myBitmap.getWidth();
imgHeight = myBitmap.getHeight();
for(int i…

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How can I convert an RGB image to grayscale but keep one color?
I am trying to create an effect similar to Sin City or other movies where they remove all colors except one from an image.
I have an RGB image which I want to convert to grayscale but I want to keep one color.
This is my picture:
I want to keep the…

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Convert UIImage to grayscale keeping image quality
I have this extension (found in obj-c and I converted it to Swift3) to get the same UIImage but grayscaled:
public func getGrayScale() -> UIImage
{
let imgRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height)
let colorSpace =…

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How do I desaturate and saturate an image using CSS?
Update
I just realized that the desaturation is only working in Chrome. How do I make it work in FF, IE and other browsers? (Headline changed)
I'm converting a color picture to greyscale by following the suggestions here: Convert an image to…

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Convert grayscale value to RGB representation?
How can I convert a grayscale value (0-255) to an RGB value/representation?
It is for using in an SVG image, which doesn't seem to come with a grayscale support, only RGB...
Note: this is not RGB -> grayscale, which is already answered in another…

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