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Convert Image to Black & White

Turn any image into pure two-tone black and white with a clean luma threshold. Great for high-contrast logos, stencils, and line art. Instant preview; one credit for the full-resolution download.

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Threshold, not desaturation

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A true two-tone threshold

Every pixel is measured for brightness and pushed to pure black or pure white at the midpoint — no grays. That is what separates real black and white from grayscale, and it is exactly what stencils, screen-print masks, and single-colour logos need.

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Keeps transparency intact

Only the visible pixels are thresholded; the alpha channel is left alone, so a transparent PNG stays transparent and drops onto any background.

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Instant and in-browser

The conversion runs on an HTML canvas on your device, so the preview is instant and your image never leaves your browser during editing.

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How the threshold decides

Each pixel is first reduced to a single brightness value using luma weighting, then compared to the midpoint. Anything brighter becomes white and anything darker becomes black. The result is a clean two-value image with hard edges and no anti-aliased gray.

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Black and white versus grayscale

Grayscale keeps hundreds of gray shades, so photos stay soft and detailed. A black-and-white threshold keeps only two values, which is ideal for cutting, printing, and tracing but can lose fine gradients. Choose based on whether you need detail or a hard-edged stencil.

How to convert image to black & white

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Upload your image

Drag and drop a PNG, JPG, WebP, or SVG, or click to browse. The original loads on the left for easy before-and-after comparison.

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See the two-tone result

The black-and-white version appears instantly on the right, with every pixel snapped to pure black or pure white at the brightness midpoint.

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Download

Grab a free preview to check the contrast, or download the full-resolution PNG with one credit. Transparency is preserved in the export.

Where hard black and white beats gray

Stencils & screen print

Prepare a single-colour mask for stencils, screen printing, or vinyl cutting where every pixel must be one value.

High-contrast print

Make artwork that reproduces cleanly on fax, thermal, and one-colour print with no muddy midtones.

Line art

Reduce a sketch or logo to crisp black lines on white, ready for tracing or vector cleanup.

Bold graphics

Create punchy, high-contrast visuals for posters, stickers, and merch that stay readable at any size.

Or just ask

Describe the edit in your own words

Type what you want changed and the assistant does it on the canvas — useful when the edit is easier to say than to find.

Frequently Asked Questions

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