Black and White GIF Maker

How to make a black and white GIF

1. Press Choose image and pick a GIF or a picture.
2. Pick a style: Grayscale, High contrast black and white, or Sepia.
3. Move the Brightness and Contrast sliders if it looks too dark or too flat.
4. Press Download GIF.

The three styles

Grayscale takes the color out and keeps every shade of gray. This is the usual black and white look, like an old film.

High contrast black and white pushes each pixel to black or to white, with almost no gray in between. It looks like a photocopy or an ink stamp.

Sepia is grayscale with a warm brown tint, like an old photograph.

Brightness and contrast

Both sliders start in the middle, where they change nothing. Brightness makes the whole picture lighter or darker. Contrast pulls the light and dark parts further apart when you slide it right, and flattens them when you slide it left.

In the high contrast style, brightness decides where the split falls. Slide it right and more of the picture turns white. Slide it left and more turns black.

GIFs and still pictures

The tool changes every frame of an animated GIF and keeps its speed. A still picture, such as a JPG or PNG, comes out as a one-frame GIF. A transparent background stays transparent.

GIFs and pictures larger than 480 px are scaled down to 480 px on the long side. GIFs with more than 120 frames are thinned to 120 or fewer and keep their length.