How it works

Tint is dead easy to use, and will give you results in less than a minute.

Step 1

Select a photo.

Step 2

Tell tint how many colour groups to look for.

Step 3

Tint does all the hard work, automatically clustering your photo into colour groups.

Step 4

Select which groups will appear in colour, and which will appear in black and white, to get the mix right for your chosen photo.

Step 5

Save your work in any major file format (JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc).

Step 6

If you like, open up your saved image in a graphics editor, such as Photoshop, for further processing. This can be useful to patch up minor artifacts from Tint’s automated process.

More examples

See the examples page for a gallery of images produced using Tint.

I’ve decided it would be worthwhile to develop a Photoshop plugin for Tint. While adding nicer GUI features and tools such as a desaturation brush to the standalone program would be useful, it does feel like reinventing the wheel, and an enormous wheel at that. Obviously I could quickly find myself adding a bunch of […]

Forums are now available, particularly for discussion of Tint, but anything goes really. This should better facilitate feature requests, bug reports, support and so forth, rather than relying only on comments to my posts (like this one…). Please feel free to contribute!
I’ll pretty up the style at some point to match the rest of the […]

I’ve set up SourceForge projects for tint, dysii and fmrii, initially to handle file releases. This should relieve some of the bandwidth drain on this site. I’m considering moving Subversion repositories onto SourceForge also, to facilitate collaboration on some of this work in future.