greyscale image
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- 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
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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.