Colour filter for a photo

This is a look: your photograph is kept and washed with one colour, the way a coloured gel or glass filter would. Choose the colour, how it blends, and how dense it is; by default your photo’s own brightness is restored afterwards so the filter tints without darkening.

For warmer or cooler white balance, the Warmth slider under Tone is simpler. For a toned monochrome, the sepia filter. For ready-made colour moods, the photo filters page.

Colour

Blue, Pink, Purple, Gold, Red, Green, or any colour from the picker.

Blend

Soft light, Multiply, Screen or Colour.

Density

How much of the blended colour is used, 0 to 100.

Preserve brightness

On by default: each pixel's luminance is restored after blending.

• One colour only in this version; gradient filters are not yet available.
• Strong colours on skin read as unnatural quickly; keep Density low on portraits.

The strip, the preview and the saved file run the same code on the same settings, with every size a fraction of the picture, so the file you download is the frame you approved.

There's no upload step on this page — your picture is decoded in the tab, drawn to a canvas, and gone the moment you close it. The filter runs in this tab, on your device, and the file is written here too.

Which blend should I use?

Soft light tints gently and keeps contrast; Multiply darkens like coloured glass; Screen lightens like a coloured light; Colour replaces the hue and saturation while keeping your photo's brightness.

What does Preserve brightness do?

After the colour is blended in, each pixel's original brightness is put back. The photo is tinted without going darker or lighter, which is what most people expect from a blue or pink filter.

Can I use any colour?

Yes. The swatches are starting points; Any colour opens your system's colour picker.

Is there a rainbow or gradient filter?

Not in this version. One colour across the whole photo is what ships; a two-colour gradient filter is planned.

Can I make it subtler?

Lower Density, or use the lab's Strength to mix back toward your photo.

• Aesthetic photo filtersSoft, faded, bright and moody looks, with lift, bloom and grain.
• Sepia filterSepia, selenium, cyanotype or gold toning, split between shadows and highlights.
• DuotoneTwo colours and the ramp between them, rebuilt on every change to either end.
• Photo filtersThe 41 colour looks by family, previewed live on your photo, each one opening the lab already set.

Rendered on your computer, not on a server.