GIMP; Is It Possible To Convert Full Color Images To Greyscale?

[Reveille]

As per the title of the thread. Also step by step instuctions would be keen as I'm fairly new to GIMP.

[XCorvis]

I don't have GIMP installed, but I know you can do it. It might be called Color Depth or maybe it's under Resample.

[DarkKestral]

Originally Posted by Reveille

As per the title of the thread. Also step by step instuctions would be keen as I'm fairly new to GIMP.

Yes, and fairly easy, as I recall. You can even selectively re- or de-colorize bits of an image, if you're somewhat skilled with layers and have access to the original. There's several tutorials out there as guides, and here are some from GIMP.org, the main site for the GIMP project.

Decolorizing an Image

This one provides a couple of different strategies to decolorize an image, which will produce slightly different effects when used

Selectively Colorizing an Image

This one is interesting, in that this one will let you selectively colorize certain parts of an image you've previously decolorized, so that you can create images that look like the art photos you often see that are primarily black and white, but are partially colored.

Sepia Toning an Image

And this one's good if you want to give your images that "old-timey" feel like you'd get from a photo from the 1850s-early 1900s.

[Thanee]

For such simple tasks, the GIMP is completely over-qualified.

I can highly recommend IrfanView for the most simple image editing (size changes, cropping, greyscale conversion, or converting images to different types).

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

Bye
Thanee

[Ebonyr]

I would also suggest the Web 2.0 site Picnik for image editing.

[LightPhoenix]

The quickest way is to open your photo, choose Colors on the menu, then Desaturate. It will give you three options (Lightness, Luminosity, Average) - choose the one that looks best to you.