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Photo colour enhancerBring the colour back

Bring dull, tinted colour back to life — skin stays natural and nothing turns neon.

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Any photo whose colours look dull, tinted or washed out. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and HEIC open here.

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A yellow-tinted photo of a lake print, with the tint removed in one press
What it checks first

The colour of the light is measured twice and removed by how much the two estimates agree; then vibrance lifts the dull colours, with skin tones protected and every boost stopped before a channel clips.

What the colour panel reads

Average colour of the frame
First estimate of the light
Colour of the brightest 1%
Second estimate of the light
How far the two agree
How much of the cast is removed
Mean saturation
How much vibrance the pass adds
Pixels with a channel at 0 or 255
Colour clipping, before and after
The spot you pick
A neutral point, when you want to set it yourself

A worked example

A kitchen under warm LEDs: the median tone comes in under the band a well-exposed frame lands in, so an exposure is printed in stops; the frame’s average colour and its brightest one per cent agree closely, so the illuminant they describe is removed in full and printed in kelvin. Both lines open to show the figure they came from.

This page opens on the Colour panel with Colour guard on. Pick a neutral point if the cast meter still reads warm or cool after the pass.

Drop a dull photo here and we'll take a first pass at it. Any photo whose colours look dull, tinted or washed out. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and HEIC open here.

First the light, then the colour

Most dull colour is not missing colour. It is a cast — the yellow of a tube light, the blue of shade, the green of a cheap LED — sitting over every colour in the frame and pulling them all towards one hue. Boosting saturation on top of a cast makes the cast stronger. So the pass removes the light's colour first, measured from the frame's average colour and from its brightest one per cent, and only then decides how much vibrance the picture needs.

What the colour panel prints
ReadingMeasured onUsed for
Cast, as it arrivedthe opened picturehow far off neutral the light was, in K
Cast, nowthe corrected previewwhat is left after the pass and your changes
Colour clippingrendered pixels, 8–247 luminancea warning above 0.5% new clipping

The neutral point picker

Sometimes the estimate is fooled: a room painted orange, a sunset, a field of grass. Then the quickest honest fix is to tell it what should be grey. Press Pick a neutral point and click a wall, a white shirt, a sheet of paper or a grey card. A five-by-five patch around the click is read in linear light and the warmth and tint are set so that patch comes out neutral. The receipt records where you clicked; Auto enhance puts the measured warmth back.

Vibrance that protects skin

Vibrance already weights its boost towards the dullest colours: an already-vivid pixel barely moves. Colour guard adds two rules. Colours inside the skin-tone range — measured from their chroma, not from any face detection — move a fifth as much as everything else. And each boost is capped at the point where the first colour channel would reach its limit, so a red jumper keeps its weave instead of turning into a flat red shape.

Limits

  • The skin guard is a colour range, not a face detector: an orange wall or a wooden table is treated like skin.
  • No colourisation: a black-and-white photo stays black and white.
  • Colours outside sRGB in a wide-gamut original (Display P3, Adobe RGB) are saved as sRGB; the export panel says so when it applies.

Questions people ask

Why does my colour boost turn faces orange?
Because saturation moves every colour by the same proportion, and skin is already a warm, fairly saturated colour. Vibrance weights the boost towards dull colours, and Colour guard goes further: anything in the skin-tone range moves a fifth as much as the rest, so a grey wall or a dull sky gains colour while a face stays a face.
What does the neutral point picker do?
You click something that should be grey or white — a wall, a shirt, a sheet of paper — and the warmth and tint are set so that exact spot comes out neutral. It is the most direct way to fix a colour cast when the automatic estimate is fooled by a strongly coloured scene.
What is the cast meter measuring?
The colour of the light, estimated twice — from the average colour of the frame and from its brightest one per cent — and blended. It is printed in kelvin away from neutral for the picture as it arrived and as it is now, so you can see the cast go rather than take it on trust.
What is colour clipping?
When a boost pushes a colour channel to its limit, every pixel past that point becomes the same flat colour and the texture in, say, a red flower or a blue sky disappears. The panel counts how much of the picture has newly hit a limit and warns above half a per cent; Colour guard stops each boost just before it happens.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The colour is measured and changed inside this tab, on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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