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Turn a JPG into black and white
Drop in a JPG and see it in black and white before you decide to keep it. Pick a ready-made look or start from neutral and adjust it yourself — the conversion happens on your device, in your browser tab, and the file you export is a new one; your original JPG is never touched or sent anywhere.
Drop in a JPG and watch it turn black and white, live, with nothing uploaded.
From color JPG to finished export in three steps
Drag a JPG onto the page, choose a file, or paste one from your clipboard. Pick a starting look — Classic Noir, Silver Gelatin, High Contrast, 35mm Grain, Soft Portrait, Cinematic Noir or Duotone — or leave it neutral and shape the result yourself with exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows. When it looks right, export it as a JPG, PNG or WebP at full resolution, with a live quality preview before you download.
The parts of a JPG that don't need to travel with it
A JPG from a phone or camera usually carries more than pixels — EXIF details and, often, GPS location. None of that is needed for a black-and-white version of the photo, so it's removed automatically when you export. The photo itself never leaves your device to begin with: a live proof panel counts every network request made by the page, and for a JPG conversion it reads 0 B sent.
Fine control, not just a filter
A film grain slider — with separate controls for strength and size — a vignette, sharpening, and an analog color filter simulation in red, orange, yellow, green or blue sit alongside the tone controls, so a JPG can go anywhere from a clean, neutral grayscale to a grainy, high-contrast noir look. A before/after slider shows the original and the edit side by side as you adjust.
More than one JPG from the same shoot
If there's a whole folder of JPGs to convert the same way, add them all at once. One look applies to every photo in the batch, and the finished set downloads together as a single ZIP instead of one file at a time.
Frequently asked questions
Does this change or delete my original JPG?
No. The edit happens on a copy in memory; exporting creates a new JPG, PNG or WebP file for you to download, and the original file you selected is left exactly as it was.
Is my JPG uploaded anywhere during the conversion?
No. Everything runs in your browser on your own device. The proof panel on this site shows the request count and bytes sent live, and for an image conversion that number is zero.
Does it remove GPS location data from my photo?
Yes. EXIF and location metadata are stripped automatically when you export the black-and-white version, whether you export as JPG, PNG or WebP.
Can I convert several JPGs at once?
Yes. Add multiple files, apply one look to the whole set, and download them together as a ZIP instead of exporting each one individually.