greyscale image

Also known as grayscale image, black-and-white image, monochrome image

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Vinony's link graph records 657 inbound references to greyscale image, and connects out to grey, RGB color model and CMYK color model.

Vinony files it under Color depths, Imaging and Shades of gray.

Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Subclass of: black-and-white
Image: Onbekend object - 342018 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg
Said to be same as: shade of grey

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Commons category: Grayscale
different from: binary image
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/grayscale

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections

Contents

Numerical representations
Converting color to grayscale
Colorimetric (perceptual luminance-preserving) conversion to grayscale
Luma coding in video systems
Grayscale as single channels of multichannel color images
Examples
See also
References

In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a grayscale (American English) or greyscale (Commonwealth English) image is one in which the value of each pixel holds no color information. Pixel values are typically stored in the range 0 to 255 (black to white).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “greyscale image” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.