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Today I am going to post how you can convert any image to gray scale in Java. First the image is read from a file using javax.imageio.ImageIO class as a BuffertedImage. A function is written that takes in a BufferedImage as parameter and returns a color converted image. An instance of java.awt.image.ColorConvertOp is created which takes in an object of java.awt.color.ColorSpace as first parameter and null as 2nd parameter( since there is no RenderingHints). Then the filter(src,dest) method is called which actually does the work. Then the final image is written to a file in jpeg format as dest.jpg .
How ColorCovertOp works : This class performs a pixel-by-pixel color conversion of the data in the source image. The resulting color values are scaled to the precision of the destination image. Color conversion can be specified via an array of ColorSpace objects or an array of ICC_Profile objects.
ColorSpace class : This is an abstract class whose getInstance(int) method is called to get an instance and CS_GRAY is passed as parameter which defines a built in linear gray scale color space.

Screenshots of images are shown below

Original image

Gray Scale image

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import java.io.File;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.color.ColorSpace;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ColorConvertOp;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class GrayScale extends JPanel{
    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        Graphics2D g2d=(Graphics2D)g;
        try{   //reading from file
            BufferedImage src=ImageIO.read(new File("src.jpg"));
            BufferedImage dest=convertToGray(src);  //getting destination image
            g2d.drawImage(dest,0,0,this);  /* drawing the image on panel and then writing to a file */

            ImageIO.write(dest,"jpeg",new File("dest.jpg"));
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public BufferedImage convertToGray(BufferedImage src){
        //creating instance and using in-built linear gray scale
        ColorConvertOp grayOp = new ColorConvertOp(
            ColorSpace.getInstance(ColorSpace.CS_GRAY), null);
        return grayOp.filter(src,null);  //converting to gray scale
    }
   
    public static void main (String[] args) {
        JFrame jf=new JFrame("GRAY_SCALE");
        GrayScale obj=new GrayScale();
        jf.getContentPane().add(obj);
        jf.setVisible(true);
        jf.setSize(320,235);
        jf.setDefaultCloseOperation(jf.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
}
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