World's simplest online utility that creates a dithered Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image. Just import your PNG in the editor on the left, select the desired dithering method and the number of colors of the output PNG in the options, and you'll instantly get a new PNG on the right with the dithering effect applied. Free, quick, and very powerful. Created with love by team Browserling.
World's simplest online utility that creates a dithered Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image. Just import your PNG in the editor on the left, select the desired dithering method and the number of colors of the output PNG in the options, and you'll instantly get a new PNG on the right with the dithering effect applied. Free, quick, and very powerful. Created with love by team Browserling.
This browser-based utility adds the dithering effect to a PNG image. Dithering is used to create an illusion of richer color depth in images with a reduced color palette. With only a few hues in the color palette, the dithering algorithm can create an illusion of many complementary color shades in the image. This illusion is achieved by placing pixels of two colors in checkerboard patterns, thus visually creating a third or fourth color. By controlling the density of the checkerboard and the positions of dark or light pixels, dithering brings out details, shadows, and edges of image elements. The dither effect can even create good-looking images with only two colors in the palette (this is called binary dithering). Before dithering can be applied, you have to specify the size of the new color palette in the options. The program first quantizes the input PNG using the size of the new color palette and then applies one of nine dithering algorithms, which you can choose in the options. The new PNG in the output with have exactly the number of colors that you specified in the options. Additionally, there's an option that converts the PNG to monochrome colors and applies a grayscale dither effect. Png-abulous!
This browser-based utility adds the dithering effect to a PNG image. Dithering is used to create an illusion of richer color depth in images with a reduced color palette. With only a few hues in the color palette, the dithering algorithm can create an illusion of many complementary color shades in the image. This illusion is achieved by placing pixels of two colors in checkerboard patterns, thus visually creating a third or fourth color. By controlling the density of the checkerboard and the positions of dark or light pixels, dithering brings out details, shadows, and edges of image elements. The dither effect can even create good-looking images with only two colors in the palette (this is called binary dithering). Before dithering can be applied, you have to specify the size of the new color palette in the options. The program first quantizes the input PNG using the size of the new color palette and then applies one of nine dithering algorithms, which you can choose in the options. The new PNG in the output with have exactly the number of colors that you specified in the options. Additionally, there's an option that converts the PNG to monochrome colors and applies a grayscale dither effect. Png-abulous!
In this example, we add dithering to a PNG image of a coniferous tree and reduce the original color palette as much as possible to just two colors. The color reduction algorithm analyzes the image and finds that the two most popular colors are the conifer-green and silver-white and these are the two colors that go in the new quantized color palette. The dithering method that we use is Floyd-Steinberg and it takes the two colors in the color palette and scatters pixels in such a way to recreate as many details of the original PNG as possible. The dithering algorithm itself is independent of the color palette, which is created via quantization in the previous step. (Source: Pexels.)
In this example, we apply dithering to a multi-color PNG image of coconuts on a red background and convert it to a 4-color tone PNG. We choose the Stucki algorithm and get a surprisingly accurate approximation of the original image. (Source: Pexels.)
This example creates a dithered 3-bit (8-color) grayscale PNG photo of an orange-furred cat standing on an armchair. It uses the "False Floyd Steinberg" algorithm but before it's applied, all color pixels are turned into grayscale pixels. (Source: Pexels.)
Edit a PNG in your browser.
Compare two or more PNG images.
Create an animation that slowly reveals a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to an AV1 image (AVIF).
Convert an AV1 image (AVIF) to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a High Efficiency Image File (HEIF).
Convert a Hide Efficiency Image File (HEIF) to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to an ICO icon.
Convert a PNG image to a TIFF image.
Convert a TIFF image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a PIK image.
Convert a PIK image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a PPM image.
Convert a PPM image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a BPG image.
Convert a BPG image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a FLIF image.
Convert a FLIF image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a Paint.net file.
Convert a Paint.net file to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to a Photoshop file.
Convert a Photoshop file to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to an SVG image.
Convert a PNG image to an PDF document.
Convert a PDF document to a PNG image (or multiple images).
Convert a PNG image to an EPS file.
Convert an EPS file to a PNG image (or multiple images).
Convert a PNG image to a JFIF image.
Convert a JFIF image to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to raw RGB values.
Convert RGB values to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to raw BGR values.
Convert BGR values to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to raw RGBA values.
Convert RGBA values to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG image to raw BGRA values.
Convert BGRA values to a PNG image.
Convert multiple PNGs to a GIF animation.
Convert an APNG animation to a GIF image.
Convert a GIF animation to an APNG image.
Convert an APNG image to a Webp image.
Convert a Webp image to an APNG image.
Convert an APNG image to an MP4 video.
Convert an MP4 video to an APNG image.
Convert an APNG image to an AVI video.
Convert an AVI video to an APNG image.
Convert an APNG image to a WMV video.
Convert an WMV video to an APNG image.
Extract all frames from an APNG image.
Play a PNG animation (APNG) frame by frame.
Change the playback speed of an animated PNG (APNG).
Change how many times an animated PNG loops.
Reverse the order of frames in an animated PNG (APNG).
Created animated PNGs (APNGs) from input images.
Check if the given PNG file is an animated PNG file (APNG).
Create a sprite sheet from all animated PNG (APNG) frames.
Create an animated PNG (APNG) from a sprite sheet.
Create Excel art from a PNG image.
Randomly distort data in a PNG file to make a glitched PNG.
Find all grayscale pixels in a PNG (grayscale mask).
Find all color pixels in a PNG (color mask).
Invert the alpha channel values in a PNG.
Shuffle pixels or pixel blocks in a PNG.
Break a PNG image into multiple pieces.
Generate a slideshow animation from multiple PNGs.
Generate a mosaic wall from multiple PNGs.
Convert a PNG into a hexagonal grid of pixels.
Convert a PNG into a triangular grid of pixels.
Create a Voronoi diagram from a PNG image.
Darken PNG corners compared to its center.
Create multiple reflections of a PNG.
Apply a Bayer filter on a PNG.
Make a PNG look like it was taken via night vision goggles.
Make a PNG look like it's spherical.
Run a PNG through the Mobius Transform.
Convert between RGB, CMYK, HSV, and HSL color spaces.
Convert between 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit PNG depths.
Remove dithering from a PNG image.
Convert a PNG to an ASCII art image.
Convert ASCII art to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG to an ANSI art image.
Convert ANSI art to a PNG image.
Convert a PNG to a Braille art image.
Convert Braille art to a PNG image.
Create a PNG image from the given bytes.
Convert a PNG image to bytes.
Increase the quality of a PNG image.
Extract a 2d slice from a PNG.
Create a PNG that contains all possible RGB colors.
Find all textual information in a PNG image and extract it.
Given any 2D PNG, add 3rd dimension to it.
Quickly erase text (labels, captions) from a PNG.
Quickly delete a watermark from a PNG.
Salvage a PNG that has bad bytes in it and doesn't open.
Conceal a secret message in a PNG image.
Update meta data of a PNG file.
Delete meta data from a PNG picture.
Check if the given file is a valid PNG without errors.
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