Image Color Tint

Name: Image Color Tint
Brand: Cloudinary
Rating: 4.6 (25 reviews)

Tint an image online with a free image color tint tool. Drop your photo below and shift its colour in seconds

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Image Color Tint

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Effect Mode

Tint Color

Adjustments

Tint Strength 60

Brightness 0

Contrast 0

Saturation 0

Output

Format

Quality

★★★★★

4.6 (25 reviews)

Looking to programmatically tint your images?

Free Image Color Tint

Easily tint an image online, instantly and effortlessly. No installation or plugins required. Simply drop your photo into our tool, pick a colour and strength, and download the graded result in seconds.

Why choose our image color tint tool?

You can tint an image on the fly, securely, ad-free and inside your browser. Developers can get an API to apply consistent colour grades across thousands of images!

Any colour, any strength

Pick a tint colour and dial the strength from subtle to complete. The whole image shifts towards that colour while keeping its detail and contrast.

Image Enhancement

Whether it’s colour grading, real time filtering or interactive product displays, Cloudinary’s API covers a wide spectrum of enhancement features. Developers can easily process whole libraries automatically!

Performance Optimization

Automatic optimization ensures that media is delivered in the best quality and format based on the user’s device, browser or connection. Automatically apply the most efficient format!

Grade, do not just tint

Brightness, contrast and saturation sit alongside the tint, so a single pass gives you a finished look rather than a colour wash over a flat photo.

Workflow Automation

Create automated workflows on preset configurations. Save time and ensure that files are transformed and ready to deliver automatically after upload.

Formats Versatility

Go beyond JPG and PNG. Support for cutting edge formats ensures that visual assets are delivered in the combination of quality and efficiency that suits each viewer.

How to tint an image in 3 steps

Use the image color tint tool in 3 simple steps, or sign up for Cloudinary to programmatically grade thousands of your images!

Upload your image

Upload and drag drop your JPG, PNG or WebP photo into the tool

Pick your tint

Choose a colour and strength, then adjust brightness, contrast and saturation

Download tinted image

Once the grade is complete, download your JPG, PNG or WebP

Explore Beyond Image Color Tint

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A woman and a golden retriever in the mountains. They're sitting, facing away from the camera while the dog noses the woman. They're surrounded by natural splendor including majestic mountains, puffy clouds, and evergreen-studded hills. — An un-cropped image overlaid with a cropping window showing how it would be cropped by Cloudinary.

Original: 18 MB
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JPEG: 135 KB
WebP: 135 KB
AVIF: 90 KB
JPEG XL: 94 KB

Original: 18 MB
We’re showing a resized version of the original asset to avoid slow loading speeds. View the original.

JPEG: 135 KB
WebP: 135 KB
AVIF: 90 KB
JPEG XL: 94 KB

Duration: 1:42

Duration: 0:15

URL:

/ar_0.5,c_fill,g_auto,w_433/q_auto/f_auto/hiking_dog_mountain.jpg

cloudinary.image("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg", {transformation: [
  {aspect_ratio: "0.5", gravity: "auto", width: 433, crop: "fill"},
  {quality: "auto"},
  {fetch_format: "auto"}
  ]})

new CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
  .resize(
    fill()
      .width(433)
      .aspectRatio(0.5)
      .gravity(autoGravity())
  )
  .delivery(quality(auto()))
  .delivery(format(auto()));

new CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
  .resize(
    fill()
      .width(433)
      .aspectRatio(0.5)
      .gravity(autoGravity())
  )
  .delivery(quality(auto()))
  .delivery(format(auto()));

new CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
  .resize(
    fill()
      .width(433)
      .aspectRatio(0.5)
      .gravity(autoGravity())
  )
  .delivery(quality(auto()))
  .delivery(format(auto()));

new CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
  .resize(
    fill()
      .width(433)
      .aspectRatio(0.5)
      .gravity(autoGravity())
  )
  .delivery(quality(auto()))
  .delivery(format(auto()));

CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg").image(transformation=[
  {'aspect_ratio': "0.5", 'gravity': "auto", 'width': 433, 'crop': "fill"},
  {'quality': "auto"},
  {'fetch_format': "auto"}
  ])

(new ImageTag('hiking_dog_mountain.jpg'))
	->resize(Resize::fill()->width(433)
->aspectRatio(0.5)
	->gravity(
	Gravity::autoGravity())
	)
	->delivery(Delivery::quality(
	Quality::auto()))
	->delivery(Delivery::format(
	Format::auto()));

cloudinary.url().transformation(new Transformation()
  .aspectRatio("0.5").gravity("auto").width(433).crop("fill").chain()
  .quality("auto").chain()
  .fetchFormat("auto")).imageTag("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg");

cl_image_tag("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg", transformation: [
  {aspect_ratio: "0.5", gravity: "auto", width: 433, crop: "fill"},
  {quality: "auto"},
  {fetch_format: "auto"}
  ])

cloudinary.Api.UrlImgUp.Transform(new Transformation()
  .AspectRatio("0.5").Gravity("auto").Width(433).Crop("fill").Chain()
  .Quality("auto").Chain()
  .FetchFormat("auto")).BuildImageTag("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")

cloudinary.image('hiking_dog_mountain.jpg').transformation(Transformation()
	.resize(Resize.fill().width(433)
.aspectRatio(0.5)
	.gravity(
	Gravity.autoGravity())
	)
	.delivery(Delivery.quality(
	Quality.auto()))
	.delivery(Delivery.format(
	Format.auto())));

imageView.cldSetImage(cloudinary.createUrl().setTransformation(CLDTransformation()
  .setAspectRatio("0.5").setGravity("auto").setWidth(433).setCrop("fill").chain()
  .setQuality("auto").chain()
  .setFetchFormat("auto")).generate("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")!, cloudinary: cloudinary)

MediaManager.get().url().transformation(new Transformation()
  .aspectRatio("0.5").gravity("auto").width(433).crop("fill").chain()
  .quality("auto").chain()
  .fetchFormat("auto")).generate("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg");

cloudinary.image('hiking_dog_mountain.jpg').transformation(Transformation()
	.resize(Resize.fill().width(433)
.aspectRatio(0.5)
	.gravity(
	Gravity.autoGravity())
	)
	.delivery(Delivery.quality(
	Quality.auto()))
	.delivery(Delivery.format(
	Format.auto())));

cloudinary.image {
	publicId("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
	 resize(Resize.fill() { width(433)
 aspectRatio(0.5F)
	 gravity(
	Gravity.autoGravity())
	 })
	 delivery(Delivery.quality(
	Quality.auto()))
	 delivery(Delivery.format(
	Format.auto())) 
}.generate()

new CloudinaryImage("hiking_dog_mountain.jpg")
  .resize(
    fill()
      .width(433)
      .aspectRatio(0.5)
      .gravity(autoGravity())
  )
  .delivery(quality(auto()))
  .delivery(format(auto()));

Frequently Asked Questions

What is image tinting?

Tinting shifts every colour in an image towards a single hue while keeping its lightness and detail intact. It is different from recolouring, which replaces one specific colour with another, and different from a filter, which usually bundles several adjustments together. A tint is closest to holding a coloured gel over a lens: the scene is still fully visible, but everything now leans warm, cool or towards whatever colour you chose. It is the basic building block of most photographic looks, including sepia, cyanotype and the teal and orange grade common in film.

What is the difference between tint and colorize?

Tint shifts the image towards your chosen colour while preserving the relationships between the original colours, so a red jumper and a blue sky both move but stay distinguishable. Colorize is stronger: it maps the image onto the chosen colour more completely, flattening the original hues into a single tone with varying brightness. Tint at high strength approaches colorize, but colorize gets there more aggressively. Use tint for a mood shift you still want to look like a photograph, and colorize for a monotone or duotone treatment.

Which colours work best for tinting?

Warm oranges and ambers read as sunlight, nostalgia or comfort and suit skin tones well. Cool blues and teals read as night, cold or technology and work on landscapes and architecture. Green tints are the hardest to use on people because they push skin towards an unhealthy cast, though they suit foliage and industrial scenes. As a rule, a tint at 30 to 50 percent strength changes the mood without the viewer noticing it as an effect, while anything above 70 percent reads as a deliberate stylistic choice.

Why to tint an image?

To make a set of images feel like a set. Photographs taken at different times, on different cameras or in different light rarely match, and a consistent tint is the fastest way to unify them for a website, a deck or a social grid. Tinting is also used to set mood, to push an image back behind overlaid text so the text stays readable, and to match brand colour without replacing the photograph with a flat block of colour.

Can developers automate this?

Yes. Tinting is a genuine Cloudinary image transformation, so it runs server side with no browser involved. Colour, strength, brightness, contrast and saturation are all expressed in the delivery URL, which means an application can apply a house grade to every image as it is delivered, without storing a graded copy of each one. Change the grade later and every image updates, because the original is untouched. Sign up for the free API to build it once.

How can I further optimize the tinted image for the web?

Export as WebP where you can, which typically saves around a third of the file size at the same visible quality. Leave quality on automatic so the compression is chosen per image rather than fixed, which matters more after tinting because a graded image often has a narrower colour range and compresses better than the original. For a website, serving through an optimised delivery URL also picks the best format per browser, so one upload covers every visitor.

Image Color Tint

Image Color Tint

Preview

Effect Mode

Tint Color

Custom Color

Adjustments

Output

Rate This Tool

Looking to programmatically tint your images?

Free Image Color Tint

Why choose our image color tint tool?

Any colour, any strength

Image Enhancement

Performance Optimization

Grade, do not just tint

Workflow Automation

Formats Versatility

How to tint an image in 3 steps

Upload your image

Pick your tint

Download tinted image

Explore Beyond Image Color Tint

Frequently Asked Questions

What is image tinting?

What is the difference between tint and colorize?

Which colours work best for tinting?

Why to tint an image?

Can developers automate this?

How can I further optimize the tinted image for the web?